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ESG/ Escola Superior Gallaecia and ICOMOS-CIAV/ International Scientific Committee for vernacular Architecture are honoured to jointly organise, in Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal, three important international conferences; CIAV2013- 7th ATP- Versus2013. The main subject of the conference will be Vernacular Heritage and Earthen Architecture.
CIAV 2013 represents the annual conference from the International Committee of Vernacular Architecture of ICOMOS - International Council of Monuments and Sites. In 2011, ICOMOS-CIAV chose the candidacy presented by ESG and FCO to organize CIAV 2013 and VERNADOC 2013 (International Documentation Camp in Vernacular Architecture)
ESG and FCO have coordinated the Seminar of Earthen Architecture in Portugal (ATP - Arquitetura de Terra em Portugal) since 2003. The Association Centro da Terra initiated its collaboration in 2004. The ATP Seminar has been held in Lisbon (1st ATP & 2nd ATP), Monsaraz (3rd ATP - 4th SIACOT), Ouro Preto (4th ATP - Terra Brasil 2006), Aveiro (5th ATP) and Coimbra (6th ATP_9th hSIACOT). Several Universities, Faculties and Research Centres from Civil Engineering to Archaeology have been invited to receive the ATP Seminar. In 2013, the 7th ATP will be organised in Vila Nova de Cerveira.
In 2012, Versus Research Project was approved by the European Union, under the European Programme Culture (2007-2013). VerSus was submitted by ESG (Portugal), as Project Leader, in partnership with CRAterre-ENSAG (France), UPV (Spain), UNIFI (Italy), and UNICA (Italy). The project will also receive the collaboration of six institutions from Sweden, UK, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Cyprus. VerSus conference will present preliminary results of the European Research Project.
The "SEISMIC-V: Seismic-resistant vernacular culture in Portugal", was financed by the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology (2013-2015). The research project was submitted by Escola Superior Gallaecia as Project Coordinator, in partnership with the engineering departments of Minho University and Aveiro University. This project is expected to identify seismic-resistant elements in the vernacular heritage in use. Seismic-V aims to verify consistently the identification the "local seismic culture" concept in Portugal. The project results will provide data, which will allow the seismic-resistant strengthening of the architectonic components of the existent vernacular heritage still in use. In the scope of the International Conference, Theme 5: Natural hazards and risk mitigation is structured considering the SEISMIC-V project.
