The one-day workshop will see 6 consecutive sessions with discussions around flood risk management and cultural and natural heritage in the Sava River basin. During this workshop, stakeholders will discuss:

• The past flood events in the Sava River basin and floods resilience indicators
• The Cultural and historical heritage data - needs for the SHELTER project;
• SHELTER's stakeholder/user platform, introducing the Sava Open Lab Task Group with peer learning experience.

The workshop organized jointly by ISRBC, UNESCO, Tecnalia, IHE Delft, POLITO and SISTEMA will bring representatives from the Sava River basin management authorities (Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia) together with stakeholders responsible for maintaining the UNESCO heritage sites within the basin area.  

The overall objective of SHELTER project is to address the relationship between cultural and historical heritage and disaster risks in Europe. The Sava River basin is one of the 5 selected Open Labs across Europe aiming to test and demonstrate innovative concepts (technologies, tools and approaches) to enhance resilience.

The 6-monthly workshops aim to review the progress of a 4-year process to assess the flood vulnerability of cultural heritage sites in the Sava basin through providing a common platform, effective means for data sharing and dissemination. The workshop participants will discuss with SHELTER partners ways to explore and bridge current divides between stakeholders involved in flood versus heritage management, given the current focus on flood recovery.

Additional information about the project

https://en.unesco.org/fieldoffice/venice/historicenvironments