CAMPUS - Climate Adaptation Plans for UNESCO Sites

Cross-border cooperation programme Italy-Croatia 2021-2027

Total Budget: €. 1.504.684,00

Budget Po Delta Veneto Regional Park: €. 239.368,00

Lead Partner: Municipality of Ferrara

Project Partner in the Project

• Iuav University of Venice

• Municipality of Monte Sant'Angelo

• Po Delta Veneto Regional Park

• Public Institution Development Agency of Lika-Senj County – LIRA (Hrvatska)

• Public Institution RERA SD for coordination and development od Split Dalmatia County (Hrvatska)

Climate changes jeopardize the conservation of World Heritage in many natural and cultural UNESCO sites, whether climate change adaptation plans and actions are not adopted by relevant authorities. Ancient buildings were designed for a specific local climate. Increasing sea level threatens many coastal sites. The conditions for conservation of archaeological evidence may be degraded in the context of increasing soil temperature. These are some of the common issues currently faced by the different UNESCO sites, targeted by this project. To deal with them, CAMPUS intends to develop of a cross-border framework for monitoring systems, action plans and measures for climate change adaptation, in outstanding UNESCO sites of Italy and Croatia.

CAMPUS is based on a cross-border cooperation of public institutions, UNESCO sites, development agencies and the IUAV of Venice, as technical and scientific partner, supporting natural and cultural UNESCO sites with:

1. A common monitoring system tool, supporting local and UNESCO authorities in assessing the vulnerability and resilience of their sites, to further design adaptation plans;
2. Cross Border Guidelines and ad-hoc UNESCO Climate Change Adaptation Plans, supporting each partner in adopting concrete actions to preserve and protect the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of UNESCO site;
3. NBS, Building solutions and Light Solutions, as Climate Change Adaptation counter-measures, aimed at restoring, protecting and preserving each targeted UNESCO Site. Through an indispensable cross-border cooperation between public bodies, development agencies, universities and research bodies, CAMPUS finally aims to raise attention to the issue of the impact of climate change in environmentally, morphologically, and culturally fragile areas, such as the UNESCO ones.

Specific objective: Promoting climate change adaptation and disaster risk prevention, resilience, taking into account eco-system based approaches.