An international capacity-building seminar ‘Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Learning through Knowledge and Practice’ is taking place in Trakai on 11–12 September. The aim of the seminar is to contribute to the development of a national climate impact assessment system related to heritage sites.

The event, organised by the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO, is the first initiative to respond to UNESCO’s call to strengthen cultural heritage protection measures to mitigate the threat of climate change. The capacity-building seminar is aimed at improving the skills of cultural heritage professionals by sharing experiences and good practices from the Nordic countries and Scotland. The project is in cooperation with the Norwegian Directorate of Cultural Heritage and the Swedish National Heritage Board (under the Ministry of Culture).

In the presentation ‘Damages of wooden outdoor sculptures’ presented at the seminar, Rolandas Vičys, lecturer in the Object Conservation and Restoration study programme of the Kaunas kolegija Faculty of Arts and Education, Academy of Arts, shares his insights on the state of cultural heritage in the face of climate change, together with colleagues from the Pranas Gudynas Restoration Centre of the National Museum of Lithuania.

Project organisers: Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO, Nordic Council of Ministers Office in Lithuania