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Insight Brief: Innovation Pathways to Enhance Reach of R&I Outcomes
Explore our latest insight brief, “Innovation Pathways to Enhance Reach of R&I Outcomes”, which delves into innovative strategies designed to protect cultural heritage against hydroclimatic events. This comprehensive document highlights research and innovation (R&I) outcomes aimed at safeguarding historical sites and cultural landmarks from the impacts of climate change, including flooding, erosion, and extreme weather events.
By understanding these pathways, stakeholders can better implement protective measures, ensuring the preservation of cultural heritage for future generations.
Case Studies for Cultural Heritage and Climate Adaptation
This booklet offers a curated selection of case studies highlighting practical and innovative approaches to protecting cultural heritage from floods, droughts, and other hydroclimatic risks. Collected within the SD-WISHEES Horizon Europe project and presented at the 2025 AMIGO International Conference in Évora, the examples span Europe, the Balkans, and Africa. They demonstrate how communities and institutions are building climate resilience while safeguarding natural, tangible, and intangible heritage.
Use it as a quick overview of emerging solutions, lessons learned, and adaptable practices that support sustainable heritage management in a changing climate.
About SD-WISHEES
SD-WISHEES is a Horizon Europe project focused on supporting and developing widening strategies to address the impacts of hydroclimatic extreme events on cultural heritage. The consortium brings together 16 partners across 11 countries, including 6 widening countries, to strengthen collaboration in research and innovation.
The project develops tools and strategies that connect researchers, institutions, and stakeholders working to protect both tangible and intangible heritage affected by floods, droughts, heatwaves, landslides, and related risks. Its mission is to enable inclusive and sustainable management of cultural heritage across Europe and beyond, with a strong emphasis on actionable, stakeholder-driven solutions.
SD-WISHEES identifies research priorities, tackles participation barriers, and promotes efficient networking through initiatives like the Thematic Action Programme. Launched in January 2023, the project aims to increase global resilience by improving knowledge exchange and supporting communities facing hydroclimatic challenges.
SD-WISHEES Knowledge Hub
The SD-WISHEES Knowledge Hub is an expert network dedicated to advancing collaboration at the intersection of water, climate, and cultural heritage. It brings together researchers and professionals to build a shared space for knowledge exchange, capacity building, and joint innovation.
The hub promotes integrated research efforts, supports data and infrastructure sharing, and strengthens multidisciplinary cooperation. Its activities include scientific publications, foresight work, good practice exchange, mobility actions, and policy-oriented outputs. Through this collective approach, it helps shape European and international research agendas and provides insights that support both scientific and policy communities.
Join the Knowledge Hub to contribute to a growing collaborative environment focused on addressing the challenges hydroclimatic extreme events pose to cultural heritage.
Joint vision TAP Action
Hydro-climatic extreme events such as floods and droughts increasingly threaten Europe’s cultural and natural heritage. The SD-WISHEES Joint Vision TAP Action strengthens collaboration between EU and Widening countries to better understand these risks and develop sustainable, resilient solutions.
By promoting integrated research, innovation, and policy alignment across water, climate, and cultural heritage, the Joint Vision supports knowledge sharing, multidisciplinary cooperation, and practical impact at European and international levels.
Join the Joint Vision TAP Action to help safeguard cultural and natural heritage from the growing impacts of hydro-climatic extreme events.
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