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Risk Summer school 2026 - Climate Change Effects and Risk management on Cultural Heritage: Sustainability and Resilience

Summer school

From August 25, 2026 to August 27, 2026

Grenoble - Presqu'île

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The 5th edition of the RISK summer school (thematic program of the Graduate School of Université Grenoble Alpes) on the subject of "Climate Change Effects and Risk management on Cultural Heritage: Sustainability and Resilience" will take place from Tuesday August 25th to Thursday August 27th, in GreEN-ER Building at Grenoble (France).

The programme of this edition was built in collaboration with the partners from the ATLAS EU-project and the Risk Institute (Université Grenoble Alpes).

The summer school, open to all (scientists, students, partners...) and free of charge, will include multidisciplinary scientific seminars, round tables with invited scientists, and a field-trip.

Registration

Programme

This programme is being consolidated and may be subjected to slight modifications in the coming weeks.

08:30 am Welcome coffee

09:00 am Opening of the Risk summer school

Cécile Cornou, Julien Baroth, Galateia Terti (GS@UGA RISK); Sandrine CAROLY (Risk Institute@UGA); Pilar Ortiz and Julie DUGDALE (ATLAS-EU Project)

Session 1 - Risk Assessment and Damage Quantification

09:30 am Comprehensive Risk Assessment: Geospatial Databases, Trends, and Integrated Models.

Mónica Moreno (UPO)

10:00 am Risk and vulnerability assessment in Cultural Heritage. 

Pilar Ortiz (UPO)

10:30 am Coffee break

11:00 am The case of Venice against floods.

Elisabetta Zendri (UNIVE)

11:30 am General discussion and focus group presentation.

Chairman: Victor Bañuls (UPO)

12:00 am Lunch

 

Session 2 - Disaster Risk Management in Historic Cities

01:30 pm Historic Cities and emergency response.

To be announced 

02:00 pm The Valencia DANA (Spain). Rescue of Cultural Assets: Safeguarding against Disasters.

Gemma Contreras (IVCR+i)

02:30 pm Title to be announced 

Speaker to be announced  (ENSAG)

 

03:00 pm Coffee break

03:30 pm Presentation of the Mentored Research project. Humanitarian Aid and the Consequences on Housing and Risk Management. RISK Students: 

Aurélie Anglionin (UGA, master GEOIDES) and Emily Gissele Ramos Chérrez (UGA, master STPE)  

 

04:00 pm General discussion and focus group presentation.

Chairman Pilar Ortiz (UPO)
 

08:30 am Coffee

Session 3 - Field trip: Cultural heritage & risk in Grenoble

9:00 am to 12:00 am Visit to the historical part of the city of Grenoble and the Bastille. Including a guided visit, in English, by the Grenoble Tourist Office. With possible participation of the Departmental Fire and Rescue Service, SDIS, or the Municipality of Grenoble.

12:00 am Picnic lunch

Session 4 - Resilience and Social Solutions

02:00 pm Digital Simulations for Cultural Heritage Evacuations: Fires at the Bastille of Grenoble.  

Julie Dugdale (UGA),  Fanny di Tursi (LIG)  and Flavien Loup-Hadamard (LIG)

2:30 pm Challenges in implementing digital twins for population evacuation.

Speaker to be announced 

2.45 pm Presentation of the Mentored Research project. Physics-informed learning for the assimilation of multi-agent simulation data on population evacuation. 

RISK Students: Stefanos Aristodemou (INP, Ense3), Quentin Gary (INP, Ense3) and Colain Dumaine (UGA, master STPE)

03:15 pm Coffee break

03:45 pm Presentation of the Mentored Research project. Building damages, debris and human injuries in Grenoble for various earthquake scenarios. 

RISK Students: Youssef Barra (INP, Ense3), Lauraline Bechet (UGA/INP, Polytech), and Marin Papageorgiou (UGA, master STPE)

4.15 pm Digital Tools for Civil Protection in Historic Cities. 

Speaker to be announced 

04:45 pm Digital Tools for Monuments. 

Speaker to be announced 

05:15 pm General discussion and focus group presentation 

Chairman to be announced

 

7:00 pm Summer school dinner

 

9:00 am Coffee

Session 5 -  Resilience and Nature-Based Solutions

09:30 am Green infrastructure: Challenges and opportunities of nature-based solutions. 

Edy Fantinato (UNIVE)

10:30 am Coffee break

11:00 am The case of Alhambra and its garden 

Speaker to be announced 

12:00 am Lunch

02:00 pm Title to be announced

speaker to be announced

02:30 pm Presentation of the Mentored Research project. The integration of AI technologies to assess the notion of Risk in intensive farming.

RISK Students: Othniel Jean (IUGA, master GEOIDES) and Marie Lorryl Tiemagni Pelami (INP/UGA, Polytech)

03:00 pm General discussion and focus group presentation. 

Chairman: Edy Fantinato

4:00 pm End of the Summer school
 

 

Partenaires

 

An event organised with the teams from:
   GRADUATE SCHOOL@UGA - UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES
   RISK INSTITUTE - UNIVERSITÉ GRENOBLE ALPES
   GRENOBLE INP - UGA
 

 

 

 

Date

From August 25, 2026 to August 27, 2026

Localisation

Grenoble - Presqu'île

Complément lieu

GreEN-ER Building / Polygone scientifique de Grenoble-Presqu'île

21 Avenue des Martyrs - 38031 GRENOBLE - France

Access from Grenoble centre : Bus Transisere X01 (direction Voiron) & Tramway B (direction Oxford) Station: Marie Louise Paris-CEA

Contact

Camille OLMOZ : camille.olmoz@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Submitted on April 27, 2026

Updated on May 5, 2026