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-BAW-Research.jpg/jcr:content/20260617_160515%20(c)%20BAW%20Research.jpg "The photo shows the project participants in the courtyard of the so-called Kaiserpflaz (“Imperial Palace”). Thanks to its medieval roots, Forchheim has a particularly high concentration of cultural heritage sites.")
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-BAW-Research.jpg/jcr:content/20260617_163011%20(c)%20BAW%20Research.jpg "The photo shows a cobblestone street in Forchheim lined with houses, some of which are very old and feature intricate half-timbered construction. Timber-frame buildings are still relatively common in Forchheim’s city, and some of them are several centuries old.")
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-BAW-Research.jpg/jcr:content/20260618_090632%20(c)%20BAW%20Research.jpg "The photo shows a flooded meadow with scattered trees and the Walberla hills in the background. The meadows are deliberately flooded through a canal system that can be dammed when necessary, thereby increasing the supply of water and nutrients to the meadow.")
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For the penultimate time before the final conference, the project partners met in Forchheim, Germany, for a project meeting. The main topics were the results of the intensive testing and feedback rounds for the INACO tools for vulnerability assessment and risk mapping of natural and cultural heritage assets in the face of climate change-induced extreme events. This is where the strengths and advantages of a broadly composed project team were particularly evident. Thanks to the diverse expertise, backgrounds, and – consequently - approaches to the testing rounds, the project not only reached a wide range of target groups - from schoolchildren to experts in cultural heritage protection - but also gathered equally diverse and multifaceted feedback. All of this is now being incorporated into the further improvement of the applications.
Another topic of discussion was the last phase of the project, including the final conference and, most importantly, the institutionalization and continuation of the project’s results. After all, the formal end of the project is intended to be merely the starting point for better protection of our natural and cultural heritage.
As always, the project meeting was rounded out by on-site visits to vulnerable areas in the region. For example, the group visited the last remaining floodplain meadows in the Forchheim district, an ancient and relatively extensive agricultural technique for meadow management that is also a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage site.