M3DEA vision adheres to the Sustainable Development Goals of the Agenda 2030, in particular to that dedicated to the protection and safeguarding of Cultural Heritage (SDG 11), and to others European initiatives, such as the Horizon Europe Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage. It is in line with the Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI CH), which emphasizes issues on protocols development, leveraging the potentialities of digital technology, and ensuring cost-effective solutions for remediation strategies.
M3DEA aims to help answering the general question “how to preserve cultural identity referring to future climate conditions?”. It holds the ambitious goal to support local authorities in historical urban planning by defining quantitative indicators of the climate potential impacts on the cultural heritage and employing an innovative approach for evaluating the permanent loss of cultural value beyond material damage.
