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The Cultural Heritage Response Unit (CHRU), which was recently registered in the EU Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), is training additional team members again this year. These experts in civil protection, […]
A new specialist training cycle for CHRU volunteers was launched at the start of spring 2026. The specialist training aims to bring together experts from a particular CHRU unit – […]
Since 2022, the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) and the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) have been active partners in the European projects PROCULTHER-NET (2022–2023) and PROCULTHER-NET2 (2024–2025). Both […]
The Cultural Heritage Response Unit (CHRU), developed by German partners as part of the KulturGutRetter project, has been officially registered in the EU Civil Protection Mechanism since the end of […]
When a disaster strikes cultural heritage sites, the first crucial step is to document and assess the damage. The analysis of the collected data determines the roadmap for all subsequent […]
In 2025, the KulturGutRetter project continued the training of volunteer CHRU members that had begun in 2024 and further expanded the pool of volunteers. At the same time, national and […]
In 2025, two in-depth specialist workshops were organised for volunteers from the CHRU’s Immovable Cultural Assets (ICA) and Movable Cultural Assets (MCA) units. Participants were encouraged to improve their knowledge […]
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 […]
