Climate and Cultural Heritage (CCH 2023)

This Collaborative Research Action (CRA) aimed to support transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches on cultural heritage and climate change to foster collaboration among the research community across several regions, and to contribute to knowledge advances and policy change at the global level.
The call was launched by the Belmont Forum with the Joint Programming Initiatives Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe (JPI Climate) and the Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI CH). Applicants were invited to submit research proposals that address at least one of the three call themes:
- The Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage
- Cultural Heritage as a Resource for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
- Sustainable Solutions for Heritage
FFG for BMBWF, BELSPO, MSMT, ANR, IEPA, MUR, RCL, NWO, RCN, AEI, SNSF, NRCT, TÜBITAK, AHRC, and NSF
Sixteen projects were recommended for funding:
Adaptation Traditions and Climate Change | Biocultural adaptation of resource management traditions under the effects of climate change |
AGREE | Advancing Cultural Heritage Governance for Resilient Climate Adaptation |
ARCA | Biocultural Heritage in Arctic Cities: Resource for Climate Adaptation? |
ATLAS | Studying symbiotic scenarios linking Heritage assets and green areas to prepare Historic Cities to face Climate Changes |
Coastal TALES | Telling Adaptations: Living Environmental Stories for Coastal Resilience |
CuHeMo | Cultural Heritage in Motion: Indigenous Knowledge and Mobile Livelihoods in Changing Climates |
FIRECULT | Wildfire Resilient Cultural Heritage |
Pasture Adaptation | Mitigation and Adaptation in Cultural Heritage Landscapes: Lessons from Transhumant Pastoral Systems for Managing Novel Climate Risks |
REFRESH | WateR cyclE For RESilient Heritage |
RETRACE | ResilienceS to climate risks: lessons from arctic and pacific communities |
ReVerDi | Real Versus Digital: Sustainability optimization for cultural heritage preservation in national libraries |
SASCHA | Multiscale approaches and scalability within climate change–heritage risk assessments |
SCENTinel | Climate Changes and Scent Heritage: The Urgent Need for Capturing and Preserving Olfactory Landscapes in a Changing World |
SEA-CCHange | Socio-Ecological Archiving: Coastal Communities’ Heritage in times of climate change |
SUSTHERIT | Transformative urban heritage. Strategies for a sustainable European historic housing stock |
WRENCH | Whispers of Time: Heritage as Narratives of Climate-Change |