SHEroes Resilience Summer School: Empowering Women in Disaster Risk Reduction through Heritage on June 22-29, 2024 in Turin, Italy

The Horizon Europe funded project RESILIAGE - Advancing holistic understanding of community RESILIence and heritAGE drivers through community-based methodologies (GA no. 101121231) is happy to invite you to the 6th edition of the Cultural Heritage in Context - Digital Technologies for the Humanities Summer School, co-organised by POLITO, UNESCO and UCLA. The Summer School will take place at Castello del Valentino in Turin, Italy, between the 22nd and 29th June 2024.

This year, the Summer School will focus on Empowering Women in Disaster Risk Reduction through Heritage, by exploring cultural natural heritage drivers for enhancing adaptation and preparedness for Disaster Risk Reduction with a special emphasis on natural disaster and climate change related risks.

The participants will be engaged in real case scenarios and testimonies, experiencing customised digital tools, immersed in interactive learning experiences, both for empowering women with skills in a mainly traditional male domain and for building a new perspective of knowledge framework in the field. The main objective will be to improve how to play a leading role in Heritage and Risks for building more resilient communities by fully capitalising on the capabilities of women.

More information on the Summer School is available on the project's website, here.