Call for application: THE FUTURE OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SMART CITIES
Villa Rufolo, Ravello (Italy) 6-9 October  2014

DEADLINE POSTPONED TO 20 JULY 2014

Venue : European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Villa Rufolo, Ravello, Italy.
Period: 6-9 October r 2014.
Participants: maximum 30 people.
Addressed to: scientists, architects, engineers, conservators, urban planners.
To Apply: Registration form accompanied by a Curriculum Vitae and a Letter of Motivation (in English)
Deadlines: 20 July 2014

in the frame of EUR-OPA Major Hazards, Council of Europe
in collaboration with   ICOD EURO-MEDITERRANEAN CENTRE ON INSULAR COASTAL DYNAMICS (La Valletta, Malta)

The 2014 Programme of the Ravello Course has the specific focus on “The future of Cultural Heritage in Smart Cities”. The Course will combine understanding of the impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage with the development of cities that need to be “smart” in order to flourish in the 21st century.
The Course will therefore consider the pressures that climate and air quality exert on historic materials and structures and how innovative approaches to making cities “smart”, can influence the Cultural Heritage in its urban setting.

Topics

• The concept of Smart Cities and whether it includes Cultural Heritage;
• Mitigation and adaptation strategies, including nanoscience application, to protect Cultural Heritage from Climate Change, starting with the impact of urban pollution on Cultural Heritage;
• Information and innovation technologies and energy issues and Cultural Heritage, starting from the lessons we can learn from the past, asking the rhetorical question of why historic cities are smart cities and how historic cities can adapt to new renewable energy technologies as the “smart” or clever way of adapting to the future;
• Energy requirements of historic buildings within the concept of Smart Cities;
• The macro-scale of cultural tourism and visitors’ expectations of Cultural Heritage in Smart Cities, and how our Built Heritage must adapt to face the double challenge of catastrophic events in a Smart City context.

The Course is addressed to young advanced students and professionals.
The lecturers belong to European Universities, National Research Centres and International Organisations. The entire Course will be held in English. There is no fee for participation.

On request, students may benefit of 3 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) after agreement with their own university.

The organisation has the possibility to support the participation of 20 students with a reimbursement of € 300 (at the maximum) of their participation expenses, after presentation of receipts. The selection for grant will be done by the organisers.

The Centre will arrange the following common transfers:

1. on Sunday 5th October from Naples to Ravello
at 18.30 Naples Airport (Capodichino), bus parking
at 19.00 Naples main railway station (Piazza Garibaldi), meeting point in front of Hotel TERMINUS

2. on Thursday 9th October
at 08.00 from Ravello to Naples Airport and main railway station

For further information about accommodation please contact the Secretariat of the Centre.

Information and contact: European University Centre for Cultural Heritage
Villa Rufolo - 84010 RAVELLO
Tel: +39 089857669-0892148433 - +39 329 8589410 / Fax: +39 089857711
Web: www.univeur.org