First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) News

Within the framework of ICCROM's First Aid and Resilience Programme, a national workshop on building disaster resilience will take place between 10-12 July in Hanoi, Viet Nam.

On the occasion of ICCROM’s upcoming Eighth International Course on First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAC), to take place Rome later this year, an informal meeting was held on 29 May to celebrate the long-lasting partnership between ICCROM and its Italian partners.

Partners are essential for heritage conservation efforts, as collaboration can leverage various types of capital (e.g., financial, human, social, physical materials) for such activities as fundraising, management, research, education, and outreach. In disaster contexts, partnerships are needed to coordinate response efforts—and the importance of including cultural heritage conservation in response...

ICCROM and UNESCO’s handbook to save heritage collections in emergencies is now available for free download in Arabic, English, French, Georgian, Japanese, Nepali and Russian.

When disasters strike, local communities are the first to try and safeguard their cultural heritage, however their ability to intervene is often greatly reduced during complex and multi-faceted humanitarian crises. At the same time, first responders may not always be aware of what is culturally important, and they often lack the training to handle heritage objects and structures, and meet the...

Cyclones, typhoons, floods and earthquakes have been identified as the biggest threats to human development. They are also on the rise, with devastating consequences for cultural heritage. For this reason, as a field, we are increasingly finding ourselves in the position of needing to be ready at any moment to intervene after a disaster strikes.

The latest edition of ICCROM’s flagship First Aid to Cultural Heritage (FAC) course has kicked off in Brabant, Netherlands. The course, held on 6 – 24 August 2018, will train 24 heritage and first response professionals from 23 countries to be “cultural First Aiders,” skilled at the protection of cultural heritage in emergency situations. Course modules will address topics such as prevention, safe...

On 19-21 June, ICCROM participated in a disaster simulation exercise for salvage of cultural heritage, held in Lucca, Italy. The exercise was part of a multi-year initiative organized by the Italian Civil Protection Department under PROMEDHE, an EU funded project also involving the civil protection authorities of Cyprus, Israel, Jordan and Palestine.

In this European Year for Cultural Heritage, an international course ‘First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis’ will be organized to train professionals from all over the world in the protection of cultural heritage. The course, which will take place in Brabant, the Netherlands, from 6 to 24 August 2018, includes modules on prevention, safe evacuation, stabilization and protection of...

Ireland has been a Member State of ICCROM since 1986, and over the years Irish professionals working in the cultural heritage sector have had the opportunity to attend excellent ICCROM training events worldwide. Participants have always returned full of enthusiasm, each time praising the experience and the high quality of training that they have received, as well as valuing the connections with...