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Deadline Call for Participation EXTENDED 22.04.2024

SHEroes Resilience Summer School: Empowering Women in Disaster Risk Reduction through Heritage

Castello del Valentino, Torino - 22nd - 29th June 2024

International Summer School "SHeroes Resilience Summer School: Empowering Women in Disaster Risk Reduction through Heritage" is organized within the Horizon Europe project “RESILIAGE, Advancing holistic understanding of community RESILIence and heritage drivers through community-based Methodologies”.

Programme:
2024 RESILIAGE EARLY CAREER RESEARCHER SUMMER SCHOOL within Cultural Heritage in Context Digital Technologies for the Humanities, POLITO-UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Joint Summer School Program | 6th Edition

Organisers:
Politecnico di Torino-Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, UNESCO-Disaster Risk Unit, UCLA-Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Coordinators:
Rosa Tamborrino (Politecnico di Torino), Irina Pavlova (UNESCO), Willeke Wendrich (Politecnico di Torino and University of California, Los Angeles)

Short Description:
The Summer School will take place at Castello del Valentino, Torino (UNESCO World Heritage site, and Faculty of Architecture, Politecnico di Torino) between 22nd - 29th June 2024. It has a moto gendered approaches and digital skills in heritage expertise for community resilience.
It aims to Empower Women in Disaster Risk Reduction through Heritage, by exploring cultural natural heritage drivers for enhancing adaptation and preparedness with an emphasis on natural disaster and climate change-related risks. The participants will be engaged in real case scenarios and testimonies, experiencing customised digital tools, and 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.

Target group:
The program is open to a variety of career levels in both academic and professional contexts. They include Early Career Researchers and any Practitioners with background in Disaster Risk Reduction, resilience, heritage, cultural institutions, PhD, master and Ph.D students. For master students affiliated in European universities the program is equivalent to 2CFU.