From September 22 to 24, 2025, around 60 volunteer team members participated in a practical station training at the THW logistics center in Hilden as part of the KulturGutRetter project. […]

On 3 and 4 July 2025, the KulturGutRetter project presented equipment specially developed for the ‘Cultural Heritage Response Unit’ (CHRU) to European partners at the THW logistics centre in Hilden. […]

At the end of April 2025, IT experts from the Cultural Heritage Response Unit (CHRU) and colleagues from the THW’s ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) department came together in Berlin […]

In April 2025, the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), with the support of the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW)and the Leibniz Center for Archaeology (LEIZA) organized an online workshop […]

Natural hazards and anthropogenic land-use pressures are causing destructive events to occur with increasing frequency, causing severe damage to Archaeological and Cultural Heritage (ACH) sites. As part of the project […]

The Cultural Heritage Response Unit (CHRU) is implementing a digital documentation system to document both the objects themselves and the measures carried out during response missions to protect cultural heritage. […]

As we look ahead to 2025 and plan for a new year of intensive project development – with the aim of reaching operational readiness and deployability – it is worth […]

From 17 to 20 October 2024, Venice hosted an EU MODEX, which for the first time in its history, thanks to the consortium partners of PROCULTHER-NET2 and to the mobilization […]

From 25 to 28 September 2024, the first full-scale exercise of the Cultural Heritage Response Unit (CHRU) took place at Demerthin Castle (Brandenburg). In a fictitious earthquake scenario, experts from […]

The aim of the Cultural Heritage Response Unit (CHRU) of the KulturGutRetter project is to secure monuments and other cultural assets quickly and professionally in the event of a disaster. […]

At the end of June, 80 volunteers from the KulturGutRetter project and the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) started their training in Hilden. In a two-day practical course, the […]

From November 12th to 22nd, 2023, experts from the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) took part in a field school in Elephantine, offered by the KulturGutRetter project and […]

One year after the devastating explosion in Beirut, experts gathered for the workshop “Built Heritage in Crisis” where they discussed their experiences on site and the challenges they were confronted […]

The German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) is an important partner in the development of KulturGutRetter and thus also in efforts to protect endangered cultural heritage. The coordinator of […]

The sixth Lange Nacht der Ideen (“Long night of Ideas”) took place on 7 June 2021, under the heading Wie bald ist morgen? (“how soon is tomorrow?”). At the event […]