PROCULTHER-NET 2 Project Technical Bulletin N. 6, November 2025

In the Summer of 2025, the PROCULTHER-NET 2 project successfully delivered another edition of the Protecting Cultural Heritage course (PCH) to 64 trainees from 23 UCPM countries. During the training week in Caserta, Italy, we once again witnessed the high level of efficiency that can be achieved when cultural heritage and civil protection experts collaborate closely. This is precisely the objective that the Technical Bulletins have been striving to achieve for the past three years: to share practical experiences in the protection of cultural heritage in crises, to inform the thinking and practices of civil protection and cultural heritage experts alike. 

This sixth issue of the Technical Bulletin opens with a foreword from the European External Action Service - EEAS, which reaffirms that the protection of cultural heritage transcends national and European borders, particularly in times of conflict. The two highly practical examples that open our FOCUS ON section demonstrate this perfectly. The first one exemplifies how a third-party international non-profit organisation, such as the ALIPH Foundation, can play a pivotal role in implementing on-the-ground measures for the emergency protection of cultural heritage during an armed conflict. The second article illustrates how the decades-long, unique experience of the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage - TPC has been deployed in post-conflict countries such as Kosovo and Iraq to combat illicit trafficking.