The CHEF initiative aims at preventing moveable and immoveable cultural heritage from damage caused by flooding. Risk assessment and emergency measures as well as damage evaluation and restoration and repair techniques are considered in the frame of the project.
The project is embedded in the call area:
FP6 - 8.1 B.3.6 “The protection of cultural heritage and associated conservation strategies”
Task 4: “To help protect cultural heritage from environmental damage particularly in relation to flooding scientific support to policies to help protect Cultural Heritage from environmental damage particularly in relation to flooding”
CHEF partners during a project meeting at Pillnitz Castle / Dresden. The high water during 2002 Elbe flood almost reached the balcony. Photo: Ivo Herle, TU Dresden
Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) within the 6th Framework of the European Union (sub-priority “Global Change and Ecosystems”)
Total volume: approximately 0.995 Mio EUR
EU-funding: approximately 0.77 Mio EUR
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