CULT – STRAT
(Specific Targeted Research Project)
EAHTR is an associate partner in a 6th Framework project called Cult-Strat.
Cult-Strat stands for Assessment of Air Pollution Effects on Cultural Heritage
– Management Strategies and has 9 research partners from Sweden, Norway, U.K,
France, Italy, Germany, Czech Republic and Spain. This is a research project
specifically targeted at research the European Commission wishes to see carried
out and quite tightly specified by them.
The project will subcontract to EAHTR over 2006-7 to facilitate the
participation of the end user community in the evaluation of management
strategies relating to air quality and its effect on cultural heritage. The
final product of the project will be a reference volume summarising all the
findings for the end users, which EAHTR will also help to evaluate. EAHTR will
help disseminate and implement the overall research findings of the project,
through the large network that has been established. The cities/associations
will be the means by which the other stakeholders will be drawn into
participation in the project, through each city’s own local and national
networks. These other stakeholders will include representatives of the various
building professions, the main owners of historic buildings, national building
research institutes, the relevant government departments, SME’s, etc.
A major objective of the project is to develop the research findings into a form
that make them readily available to end users of all types. This interaction
gives the project an unparalleled ability to consult a wide range of users
throughout Europe and to enable them to make contributions to the management
strategies as they are consolidated, comment on draft versions and evaluate the
final volume that results. This will ensure that it is produced in a form that
addresses the real needs of the users. It will also ensure that a large number
of them are aware of its existence and this, hopefully, will lead to its
widespread adoption.
The overall amount of funding for our part of the project is €20,000. This is
intended to cover the administrative and technical costs of the subcontract
including additional staff time required and travel and subsistence costs - on
the basis that we will respond in a flexible way to the needs of the project as
it develops. We propose to recruit a part time resource to support this work.
EAHTR will co-operate with Middlesex University in organising, publicising and
disseminating the results of the three proposed workshops.
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