Supporting and Developing Widening Strategies to tackle Hydroclimatic Extreme Events: Impacts and sustainable solutions for cultural heritage SD-WISHEES

Sector: Energy

Region: Europe

Funding: Horizon Europe

Year: 2023-2027

SD-WISHEES strives to enhance collaboration with widening countries to the Horizon Europe Programme through the launch of joint activities.

SD-WISHEES project aims to enable strategic coordination and cross-sector collaboration between national (R&I) funding members, researchers, innovators and a wide variety of stakeholders to address together the protection of cultural heritage in Europe and beyond in response to more and more frequent and severe hydroclimatic extreme events such as droughts and floods.

Cultural heritage here refers to historical sites, natural sites and intangible assets (i.e. knowledge, traditions).

The 4-year project is coordinated by the Water Research Institute of the National Research Council (IRSA-CNR) and sees among the partners involved in Italy the Ministry of University and Research (MUR), the Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA) and the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation (CMCC). The SD-WISHEES Consortium brings together partners from Horizon Europe expansion countries (Malta, Portugal, Romania), countries associated to the program or with which negotiations are underway (Albania, Georgia, United Kingdom), international parties (African Academy of Sciences, Kenya) and EU countries with long experience in Research Framework Programs (Belgium, Italy, France).