PROTHEGO JPI CH Heritage Plus collaborative research project [2015-2018]

Final Project MEETING and Workshop UNESCO - Paris 23 March 2018

GENERAL INFORMATION

The meeting will be held at: UNESCO, 7 Place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris

Room IV

Participants (tentative list) Vincenza Lomonaco - Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of Italy to UNESCO Mechtild Rössler – Director of the Division for Heritage and World Heritage Centre (CLT/HER/EPR) Ms. Adele CESI – National Focal point for the World Heritage Convention – Italian Ministry of Cultural heritage and activities and tourism, General Secretariat, Coordination – UNESCO Unit. Mr. Henry Owen-John Permanent Delegation of the United Kingdom to UNESCO Ms. Laura de Miguel Permanent Delegation of Spain Ms. Photini Panayi Permanent Delegation of Cyprus Cristina Sabbioni; Patrizia Bianconi JPI Cultural Heritage Maria Libera Battagliere; Elena Francioni ASI- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, e-Geos. Pier Luigi Marchetti ESA- European Space Agency

PROTHEGO Project Partners: ISPRA (Geological Survey of Italy) - Claudio Margottini, Scientific coordinator BGS (British Geological Survey); UNIMIB (University of Milano Bicocca) CUT (Cyprus University of technology) IGME (Instituto Geologico y Minero dé Espana). Demonstration Site: Sovrintendenza Archeologica Roma Prof. Claudio Parisi Presicce; Marina Marcelli Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife Mrs. Catuxa Novo Estébanez Parco Archeologico Pompei Prof. Massimo Osanna; arch. Bruno De Nigris Derwent Valley Mills Dr. David Knight Choirokoitia archaeological site Kyriacos Themistocleous (CUT University, Cyprus); PETRA ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK Dr. Suleiman Farajat and Eng Khaled Amryyin.

PROTHEGO project and final workshop rationale 2018 is the European year of Cultural Heritage. One of the main objectives of this initiative is to help trigger real change in the way we enjoy, protect and promote heritage, namely with the support of new technologies coming from the space sector. In this framework, numerous initiatives and events are held across Europe in order to enable EU citizens to become closer to and more involved with their cultural heritage. The PROTHEGO project is part of the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI-CH) – HERITAGE PLUS, under ERA-NET Plus and the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) of the European Commission. It aims at making an innovative contribution to the analysis of geo-hazards in cultural heritage sites in Europe, namely UNESCO World Heritage properties. in the light of the above, the Permanent Delegation of Italy to UNESCO has decided to host the final workshop of the PROTHEGO project at UNESCO’s headquarters. The JPI CH is coordinated by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism – MiBACT with MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research). The event will facilitate the dissemination, discussion and knowledge-sharing concerning the distribution and exposition of European WH sites to natural hazards, as well as the use of state-of-the-art satellite technologies for monitoring and safeguarding European cultural heritage from geo-hazards. Tangible cultural heritage includes various categories of monuments and sites, from individual architecture to cultural landscapes, from archaeological complexes to historic centers. All these sites are continuously impacted and weathered by several internal and external factors, with both rapid and slow onset, including natural hazards, such as landslides, sinkholes, settlement, subsidence, earthquakes or extreme meteorological events, all of which could be worsened by climate change and human interaction. A comprehensive picture of sites affected by geo-hazards is not available as yet. In order to provide an overview of such threats and potential remote sensing monitoring, the project is focusing on properties inscribed in the World Heritage List (WHL) in Europe, hereby considered as a reference cases for all EU heritage properties. More in detail, PROTHEGO applies novel space technology based on radar interferometry (InSAR) to monitor monuments and sites in Europe which are potentially unstable due to geo-hazards. Remotely-sensed information on ground stability and motion is combined with available geo-hazard datasets in order to identify the most endangered sites across Europe. After the remote-sensing investigation, local scale geological interpretation, advanced modelling and field surveying were implemented for each site in order to ascertain the causes and extent of the observed motions and provide enhanced understanding of geological processes affecting heritage properties. At least one site for each partner's country (i.e. Italy, United Kingdom, Cyprus and Spain) was used to validate and calibrate the methodological approach. PROTHEGO's goal is to enhance cultural heritage management practices at the national level, reinforcing institutional support and governance through knowledge and innovation, identifying, assessing and monitoring risks, and strengthening disaster preparedness for heritage properties in the future. The project promoted interdisciplinary and collaborative R&D activities, transferring the highest level of knowledge, quality and standards from space and earth sciences to

cultural heritage conservation sciences. The present meeting is addressed to site managers and all stakeholders acting in the fields of conservation, protection and safeguarding of World Heritage sites. Prothego’s final goal is to promote the best use and practices for state-of-the-art satellite monitoring techniques, highlighting their limits and constraints. Additional information on the activities that were developed during the project is to be found on the dedicated website: www.prothego.eu.

Workshop Agenda “European World Heritage Sites affected by Geo Hazards – Satellite Monitoring future challenges. The PROTHEGO project contribute”. 09:30 - 9:50 Welcome speeches

Vincenza Lomonaco – Ambassador, permanent Delegate of Italy to UNESCO

Mechtild Rössler - Director of Heritage Division & Director of the World Heritage Centre

Rupert SCHLEGELMILCH, Head of the EU Delegation to the OECD and UNESCO First session “Cultural Heritage and Natural Hazard - State of the art” chairman – Giovanni Crosta (UNIMIB) Introduction - Vincenza Lomonaco – Ambassador, permanent Delegate of Italy to UNESCO 9.50 a.m. – 10.10 a.m. UNESCO World Heritage sites and Natural Hazard: general situation and future perspectives (to set the context). Giovanni Boccardi - Chief, Emergency Preparedness and Response Unit, UNESCO 10.10 a.m. – 10.30 am JPI CH - Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage – future challenges and perspectives. Cristina Sabbioni, Patrizia Bianconi, Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage (Coordination Office). 10.30 a.m. – 10.45 am PROTHEGO project Rationale and strategic vision. Claudio Margottini (Scientific coordinator PROTHEGO Project) - Italian Embassy in Egypt & ISPRA - Geological Survey of Italy. 10.45 a.m. – 11.00 am UNESCO Cultural Heritage Vs. Natural hazards at European scale. Daniele Spizzichino – (PROTHEGO project manager) ISPRA - Geological Survey of Italy. 11.00 a.m. – 11.15 am Coffee break and networking. Second session “CH, Natural Hazards and Satellite monitoring” Rosa Maria Mateos Ruiz (IGME) 11.15 a.m. Introduction - Vincenza Lomonaco – Ambassador, permanent Delegate of Italy to UNESCO

11.30 a.m. – 11.45 a.m. European Space Strategy on Cultural Heritage: the Copernicus perspectives and future challenges. Pier Luigi Marchetti, European Space Agency 11.45 a.m. – 12.00 a.m. Cultural heritage and satellite monitoring: COSMO SkyMed contribute mission. Maria Battaglieri, Elena Francioni ASI - Agenzia Spaziale Italiana – eGEOS. 12.00 – 12.15 a.m. Satellite InSAR data for the European WHL sites and WEB GIS platform implementation. Emma J. Bee. - BGS - British Geological Survey. 12.15 a.m. – 12.30 a.m. Presentation of collected data and obtained results; 12.30 – 2:00 a.m. light lunch, case studies poster session presentations and networking 2.00 – 3.30 a.m. Round Table - “Stakeholders and final users – requirements and future needs” – chairman Claudio Margottini Hazard level rankings and map for the European UNESCO WHL sites Paolo Frattini and Giovanni Crosta – University of Milano Bicocca. Catuxa Novo Estébanez & Josè Fernando Merodo : Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife (Granada, Spain) and (IGME). C. Parisi Presicce and Marina Marcelli: Roma Sovrintendenza Capitolina (Roma , Italy) Massimo Osanna and Bruno De Nigris: Pompei Archaeological Park (Pompei, Italy) David Knight: Derwent Valley Mills experiences and activities on protection from geo-hazard (UK). Choirokoitia archaeological site: experiences and activities on protection from geo-hazard, Kyriacos Themistocleous (CUT University, Cyprus); Suleiman Farajat and Khaled Amryyin PETRA ARCHEOLOGICAL PARK. (Amman, Jordan) Adele Cesi Ministry of Cultural Heritages and Tourism – Head of UNESCO office -Italy; Henry Owen-John Delegation of the United Kingdom to UNESCO Laura de Miguel Delegation of Spain to UNESCO Photini Panayi Delegation of Cyprus to UNESCO 3.30 – 4.00 a.m. Closing Session Approval of a “Jointly declaration on the use of satellite techniques for CH monitoring and safeguarding from Natural Hazards”.