The fifth International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage will be held in Kyoto, Kobe and Sasayama, Japan from 13 to 26 September 2010.

Haiti earthquake, occurred on 12 January 2010, has once again shown that cultural heritage is highly vulnerable to natural disasters such as earthquake and fire.

In the post disaster phase, the challenge is how to salvage heritage properties, which are at risk of demolition and to assess their damage.

The long term challenge during recovery phase is how to repair and retrofit them and undertake reconstruction that respects tangible as well as intangible heritage values.

This event also brings forward the challenges of engaging various stakeholders at the local, national, regional as well as international levels for protecting cultural heritage during such severe situations.

In the light of Haiti earthquake, this year's training course will especially focus on emergency response and long term recovery of wooden and composite cultural heritage from earthquake and fire.

If you are interested in participating in our training course 2010, please refer to the following documents:-