STECCI | Horizon Europe Project 🇪🇺

The project’s aim is to produce innovative and sustainable protection strategies for cultural heritage from the climate change (CC) impact and consequential natural hazards, environmental pollution, and anthropogenic threats. By means of an interdisciplinary approach, the future of medieval tombstones (bos. stećak., stećci, pl.) and similar stone monuments across Europe will be assessed in the context of a changing climate, more precisely under two climate scenarios (SSP2-4.5 and SSP5-8.5) in three periods: 2021-2040 (near-term), 2041-2060 (medium-term), and 2081-2100 (long-term), as per IPCC. The unique shapes, ornaments, inscriptions, cultural and documentary values, and medieval roots have singled out stećci as a tangible phenomenon included on the UNESCO World Heritage list.