- common fisheries policy | sustainable fisheries | fisheries policy
- Thursday 1 October 2015, 11:00 - 14:00 (CEST)
Practical information
- When
- Thursday 1 October 2015, 11:00 - 14:00 (CEST)
- Languages
- English
Description
1 October 2015
Room: A3G-2 Altiero Spinelli Building, European Parliament, Brussels
Underwater cultural heritage encompasses a vast legacy of millions of ancient shipwrecks, sunken cities, prehistoric sites and submerged landscapes. It holds not only information about the history of humankind and the social importance of the oceans but also about the history of climate change and its impact on humanity. At the High-level Conference of EU Ministers of Tourism, held in March 2014 in Athens, this submerged heritage has moreover been recognized as important for the diversification of coastal and maritime tourism. Today underwater cultural heritage is however endangered and still insufficiently protected, known and researched. The UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage is the foremost international treaty concerning submerged heritage adopted by the UNESCO General Conference in 2001.
To increase awareness of the topic and facilitate knowledge exchange among experts, researchers and decision makers, an EU - UNESCO Information Meeting on Underwater Cultural Heritage is organized and will be hosted at the European Parliament. The objectives of the meeting are to provide information about latest trends in the protection, use and understanding of submerged archaeological sites, ranging from newest advances in 3D modelling of sites, new discoveries concerning historic climate change and submerged prehistory to the development of robot archaeologists able to dive in the deep sea.
10:30 | Registration |
11:00 | Welcomeandintroductionby Ricardo Serrão Santos, MEP |
11:10 | Protectionof underwater cultural heritage: The UNESCO Convention Ulrike Guerin, UNESCO |
11:20 | ARROWS project: Archaeological Robot systems for the World’s Seas Benedetto Allotta, University of Florence, Italy |
11:30 | SASMAP project: Development of Tools and Techniques to Survey, Assess, Stabilise, Monitor and Preserve Underwater Archaeological Sites David John Gregory, National Museum of Denmark |
11:40 | SPLASHCOSproject:Submergedprehistoriclandscapes Fritz Lueth, DAI, Germany |
11:50 | Opendiscussion |
12:10 | EU Research and Innovation in underwater cultural heritage Birgit de Boissezon, European Commission – DG Research & Innovation |
12:15 | Importance for coastal tourism and blue growth Franz Lamplmair, European Commission – DG MARE |
12:20 | OpenDiscussion |
12:30 | Closingremarks |
12:40 | Networkingandsandwichlunch |
agenda in pdfconcept noteposter
Participants are kindly requested to
- register for this event here
- present themselves at the Agora Simone Veil entrance of the EP (Altiero Spinelli building side of Place du Luxembourg) for accreditation and badge access at 10:30 precise in order to avoid delay
background
European Marine Board Working Group on Continental Shelf Prehistoric Research
UNESCO and Underwater Cultural Heritage
Research and innovation in Cultural Heritage
Cultural Heritage at European Maritime Day 2015
