READY Track 2 Training Call - Safeguarding Heritage Cities
Call for Applications: READY Track 2 – Safeguarding Heritage Cities, Sites, Buildings, Living Traditions and Practices in the face of Disasters, Extreme Weather Events and Complex Emergencies. Deadline 31 March, 2026.
Are disasters, climate extremes, or conflict increasingly threatening the heritage places and associated living traditions under your responsibility?
Do you work as a site manager, architect, engineer, urban planner, civil protection or disaster risk management professional, or with communities safeguarding living traditions linked to heritage cities, sites and buildings?
Are you looking for practical tools, cross-sector coordination, and training to reduce risks before the next emergency strikes?
Join READY Track 2 – Safeguarding Heritage Cities, Sites, Buildings, Living Traditions and Practices in the face of Disasters, Extreme Weather Events and Complex Emergencies. This is a hybrid, customised capacity development initiative aimed at managing risks from extreme weather, disasters, and armed conflict to immovable heritage and associated living traditions.
Call for Applications Now Open
Applications are now open for READY Track 2, a fully funded international training programme on safeguarding immovable, archaeological and intangible cultural heritage in the face of disasters, climate risks and complex emergencies.
READY Track 2 is delivered by ICCROM’s First Aid and Resilience for Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAR) Programme, in partnership with the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Education, Youth, Sport and Culture (DG EAC), and funded by the European Union through the Creative Europe Programme.
The training will be hosted by the National Institute of Heritage, Romania (TBC) and implemented in collaboration with technical partners across Europe.
This interdisciplinary training adopts a systems-based approach to managing risks to immovable heritage – including heritage cities, sites, buildings, and archaeological remains – together with the living traditions, practices, and knowledge systems deeply connected to these places. Training will be in English.
The training will be designed in cooperation with the following technical partners:
- Agency for Cultural Resilience (ACURE), Ukraine
- Centre des monuments nationaux, France
- Department of Antiquities of Cyprus (DoA), Cyprus
- Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI), Germany
- Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural y Bellas Artes, Spain
- Federal Monuments Authority of Austria, Austria
- International Council on Archives
- Ministry of Culture and Media, Republic of Croatia
- Museum of King Jan III's Palace at Wilanów, Poland
- Museus e Monumentos de Portugal (MMP), Portugal
- National Institute of Heritage, Romania
- National Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes and Revolution of Dignity Museum (Maidan Museum), Ukraine
- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC)
- National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Heritage Sciences (CNR-ISPC), Italy
- Protecting Cultural Heritage from the Consequences of Disasters Network (PROCULTHER Net 2)
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Belgium - Swedish National Heritage Board
- UNDRR Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia
How to Apply
To apply, please complete all mandatory fields in the online application form by 31 March 2026. Preliminary selection will be finalised by 30 April 2026. If selected, you will be invited for an online interview during the first week of May 2026.