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مايو 1 2025 حتى فبراير 28, 2026
Cultural Heritage First Aid

READY track 1: Safeguarding Heritage Collections, Living Traditions and Practices in the face of Disasters, Extreme Weather Events and Complex Emergencies

Ongoing courses

Cultural Heritage First Aid

PREVENT – Mitigating Flood Risk for Heritage

Apply before 1 March 2024! This course focuses on developing solutions for flood risk mitigation by involving heritage professionals, flood risk management specialists, hydrologists, climate scientist...

Bridging Theory and Practice: First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR)

FAR

First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) courses—whether international, regional, or national—are designed to strengthen disaster risk management capacities at all levels, particularly in high-risk regions. These multifaceted initiatives integrate research, training, and field applications, ranging from testing community-centered disaster risk management strategies to delivering specialized training.

FAR courses aim to build a strong global network of “cultural first aiders” and change agents. These professionals help integrate cultural heritage considerations into disaster risk reduction, emergency management, environmental change adaptation, humanitarian aid, and conflict transformation, ensuring heritage protection is a key component of resilience efforts.

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Cultural Heritage First Aid

Training of Ukraine’s First National Team of Cultural First Aiders 

Enhancing Capacities in Ukraine for Cultural Heritage First Aid and Recovery Planning 
Cultural Heritage First Aid

2-Day online course: Managing Climate Risks to Heritage and Culture-Based Climate Action

Applications are now open for a two-day course on Managing Climate Risks to Heritage and Culture-Based Climate Action!
Cultural Heritage First Aid

Net Zero: Heritage for Climate Action

Proposals are invited from institutions and organizations, which are highly motivated and have a proven track record of successfully implementing projects on cultural heritage safeguard, sustainable d...
Cultural Heritage First Aid

PREVENT: Mitigating Fire Risk for Heritage

National Museum, Brazil. Notre Dame, Paris. Shuri Castle, Japan. Table Mountain, South Africa. Invaluable heritage resources get destroyed in catastrophic fires every year. In most cases, they are hi...
Cultural Heritage First Aid

International Course on Rethinking Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage Collections

Amid the current pandemic, many cultural heritage institutions find themselves vulnerable to the risks of fire, flood, typhoons, earthquakes, and other such hazard events. The threats are however, not...
Cultural Heritage First Aid

First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAC) 2019

Are you interested in learning how to safeguard cultural heritage in times of crisis? Targeted at professionals working in the fields of humanitarian assistance, civil protection, military and disaste...
Cultural Heritage First Aid

FAC-Africa 2018

Culture is a vital resource. Whether it's the rescue of the ancient manuscripts in besieged Timbuktu or the careful salvage of destroyed temples in the earthquake that struck the Kathmandu Valley, aff...
Cultural Heritage First Aid

First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis 2018

Cultural heritage is of great value to communities worldwide. It connects us to the past, serves as a basis for our identity and as a source of knowledge. Furthermore, it can contribute to economic gr...
Cultural Heritage First Aid

First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis

#culturecannotwait: Many different types of professionals respond to an unfolding crisis. This course provides strategies for interlocking culture specialists with humanitarian specialists during an e...
Cultural Heritage First Aid

First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis

According to the Emergency Events database EM-DAT, from 2000-2012, around 2.9 billion people were adversely affected by disasters caused by natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, floods, storms etc.).