Europe has significant cultural diversity together with exceptional ancient architecture, built environment and artefact collections which attract millions of tourists every year to its historical cities and sites, museums, libraries, etc.. However, despite this richness, we have failed in our duty to take sufficient care of historical physical artefacts – both indoors and outdoors. In particular, environmental change – further complicated by the increasing influence of climate change – presents one significant threat to the sustainability of Europe’s cultural heritage.

Sub-activity 3.2. Protection, conservation and enhancement of cultural heritage, including human habitat

• Area 6.3.2.1 Assessment and conservation in cultural heritage
• Area 6.3.2.2 Networking, knowledge-transfer and optimisation of results in cultural heritage
• Area 6.3.2.3 Environmental technologies for archaeology and landscape (not open in 2011)
• Area 6.3.2.4 Fostering the integration of cultural heritage in rural and urban settings (not open in 2011)