Civil Protection

The objective of the “Jogo da Glória - SMPC Santo Tirso” project is to raise awareness among children and young people about civil protection, to get to know the protagonists and agents and to identify natural, technological and mixed risks. It also aims to instill safety habits and promote appropriate attitudes and behavior in emergency situations. The Santo Tirso Civil Protection mascot, JÉ, is the main character of the game.

Reconociendo que la urgencia de adoptar medidas adecuadas para la preservación y protección del patrimonio cultural frente a los riesgos naturales y de origen humano ha aumentado considerablemente en los últimos años, el proyecto PROCULTHER del Mecanismo de Protección Civil de la Unión Europea ha consolidado sus reflexiones en este documento.

Protecting cultural heritage from the consequences of disasters - PROCULTHER is the initiative co-financed by the Directorate General of European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations (DG-ECHO) within the framework of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism - UCPM and designed to develop and improve technical and operational capabilities for the safeguarding of cultural heritage at risk of catastrophe at all territorial levels. The project was carried out from January 2019 to December 2021 by the Italian Department of Civil Protection (Italy), leader of the Implementation Consortium that brought together the experience and competences of the Ministère de l'Intérieur - Direction Générale de la Sécurité Civile et de la Gestion des Crises (France), the Department of Culture and Tourism of the Junta de Castilla y León (Spain), the Ministry of the Interior-Disaster and Emergency Management Authority - AFAD (Turkey), the International Study Center of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Assets (ICCROM) and the Fondazione Hallgarten - Franchetti Centro Studi Villa Montesca (VM). Throughout the 36 months of activities, the partners of the PROCULTHER consortium, with the participation of the UNESCO Regional Office for Science and Culture in Europe, worked proactively in a process in which cultural heritage actors participated and disaster risk management from the Member States of the European Union and the UCPM participating States, as well as experts from international organizations active in the fields of cultural heritage and disaster risk management. This consultative process has allowed, among other actions, to identify the "Key elements of a European methodology to address the protection of cultural heritage during emergencies" and the elaboration of the minimum requirements for a response capacity promoted by the UCPM capable of intervening and support national response actions around the world for the protection of cultural heritage at risk. With the closure of PROCULTHER, the work of the project partners is not over: from January 2022 to June 2023, they will be dedicated to the PROCULTHER - NET project, the UPCM initiative co-financed by DG ECHO that aims to consolidate a thematic community focused on the protection of cultural heritage at risk of disaster within the EU Civil Protection Knowledge Network. The Federal Technical Assistance Agency - THW and the German Archaeological Institute - DAI (Germany), the University of Porto - UPORTO (Portugal) and the Suor Orsola Benincasa University - UNISOB (Italy) will also participate in the PROCULTHER-NET consortium. ​