Protecting Cultural Heritage from the Consequences of Disasters – PROCULTHER was an initiative co-funded from 2019 to 2021 by the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations - DG-ECHO, in the framework of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism - UCPM and designed to develop and improve technical and operational capacities for the safeguard of cultural heritage at risk of disaster at all territorial levels. The project was coordinated by the Italian Civil Protection Department - DPC, in collaboration with the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property - ICCROM, the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency for Türkiye - AFAD, the Direction de la Sécurité Civile et Gestion de crises - DGSCGC for France, the Hallgarten-Franchetti Centro Studi Villa Montesca Foundation - FCSVM and the Consejería de Cultura y Turismo de la Junta de Castilla y León - JCyL for Spain. The consultative process activated among the PROCULTHER Partners and involving national and international stakeholders in the field, such as UNESCO Regional Bureau for Science and Culture in Europe, and actors from European Union Member States and UCPM Participating States, has allowed, among other actions, to identify the “Key elements of a European Methodology to Address the Protection of Cultural Heritage during Emergencies” and to the elaboration of the minimum requirements of a UCPM-driven response capacity able to intervene and support national response actions worldwide for the protection of cultural heritage at risk. Building on the positive results of PROCULTHER, the same Consortium, reinforced with the experience of the German Archaeological Institute - DAI, the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief - THW for Germany, the University of Suor Orsola Benincasa - UNISOB and the University of Porto - UPORTO for Portugal, implemented the PROCULTHER-NET project (2022-2023). PROCULTHER-NET, taking benefit of the launch of the Union Civil Protection Knowledge Network - UCPKN, has been able to trace the pathway for the establishment of a European thematic community on the protection of cultural heritage at risk to support and complement the efforts made by the European Union in the cooperation between the EU Member States, UCPM Participating States in the field of civil protection. From January 2024, the same Consortium has launched PROCULTHER-NET 2 to implement the pathway mapped out by PROCULTHER-NET so as to consolidate the inclusion of the protection of cultural heritage at risk sector in the UCPM processes and structures for increasing disaster preparedness capacities and knowledge at European and national levels throughout the UCPKN. Find us on social media hashtag #ProcultherNet and click on the button below to visit the PROCULTHER-NET 2 webpage to discover how to join the initiative!