SAFEGUARD
"This project is part of the plan PACE ": SAUVEGUARDER simple project is divided, between various actions of its partners, in identification and restauration of built legacy threatened by natural factors of degradation but also by human’s factors of physical inaccessibility, and low knowledge. This shared counting method, of restructuration and restoration securisation and conservation aims to enforce accessibility and to promote a future touristic valorisation. Exchanges between partners on good practices will create, thorough all these project steps, a common denominator in which the objective is to increase touristic flux on ALCOTRA’s territory.

The ALCOTRA 2014/2020 Program identifies, among the threats, the risk of loss of the cultural heritage, a finding which is even more worrying for the intangible heritage. Heritage is also threatened because of climate change, which amplifies the causes of deterioration of materials, and because of the lack of knowledge of local populations of the principles of restoration of traditional buildings. All this increases the risk of loss of the cultural concept, understood as an identity element / founder of a region, such as the Transboundary Region, which has gone through history and everywhere presents clear evidence of this cultural sharing. PITEM proposes to preserve the Alcotra space thanks to its cultural markers and their common evolution. Four projects based on a common chronological division will identify strategies for the conservation and exchange of good practices:
Tell, Save, Promote and Share. The actions will aim at the knowledge and safeguarding of tangible and intangible heritage, in order to provide users and the public with tools to understand the cultural value of the territory in line with environmental issues. The results of the projects will be part of a perspective of economic development, tourist attractiveness and boosting the cross-border territory.