The National Technical University of Athens School of Architecture,  will hold a training seminar organized in the context of project entitled “Capacity Building in Sustainability for Architectural Heritage – SAH” under EU Erasmus plus action 2 capacity building program (Project No: 618843-EPP-1-2020-1-IT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP). The seminar will be held on July 10-14, 2023 at the offices of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, 42 Patission Street, 10682 Athens, Greece.

The five-day course was quite informative and effective. Professional specialists and university professors presented many topics and lectures related to the study, restoration and preservation of architectural heritage to the participants of the seminar. The topics are as follows:

• Historiographic Approaches to urban analysis
• Urban Ethnographic Approaches
• The Cultural Landscape Approach and the UNESCO World Heritage Management System
• Managing Heritage Site: the Tool of Heritage Impact Assessments
• Heritage-led Urban development. German examples and debates
• Heritage and regional development. Insights from the ongoing transformation of the open cast mining Rheinisches Revier, Germany
• Drones and Laser Scanning
• Digital Visualization
• BIM Building Information Modelling based tools & technologies toward fast and efficient RENovation of residential
• Digital and classical methods of landscape research
• “Big.Beautiful.Buildings”
• Residential Heritage – Values and Challenges of Preservation
• Modern Large Housing Estates: Trajectories of change
• Large Housing Estates in Germany: Recent challenges and future perspectives

On June 16-17, 2022 a steering group meeting was held in L’Aquila, Italy within the Erasmus + SAH project with the participation of the representatives of the institutions of some of the Project Consortium member countries: Italy, Greece, Germany, Armenia, and Iran.

The meeting was welcomed by Anna Tozzi, Professor at the University of L’Aquila in Italy and project coordinator, and Massimiliano D’Inocenzo, member of the coordination team.

The project partner universities and organizations presented their institutions on the first day of the meeting. Then the activities and results implemented within the project were presented in detail. Particular emphasis was placed on presenting the results of the first working package. It should be noted that the RWTH Aachen University and Goris State University are responsible for coordinating the implementation of this package. The problems arising after the Russian partner’s exclusion from the project and the steps for the solution were discussed.