The Training School Innovation in Intelligent Management of Heritage Buildings, organized by COST was hosted by the PI of the CROMART project and the director of IRCLAMA, M. Jurković, from the 26th to the 29th September 2016. It is the result of cooperation between the European project COST Action: TD1406 and the CROMART project, financed by the Croatian Science Foundation.

The Training School was held in the museum ZAVIČAJNI MUZEJ POREŠTINE – MUSEO DEL TERRITORIO, in the city of Poreč and on a historical and archaeological site near the town of Bale. The aim of the Training School was to gather scientists, professors, conservationists and students from different research and technology fields and assorted European institutions, with the goal of educating and presenting their works in the fields of management, conservation and presentation of Heritage buildings.

On the first day, M. Jurković presented the CROMART project as well as the 23 years of research and presentation of cultural heritage conducted by IRCLAMA. Subsequently, a field survey was held in the Cathedral complex in the city of Poreč. The survey was hosted by the professor of the University of Rijeka and ex Head of the Regional Monuments protection Institute in Pula, Ivan Matejčić and P. Chevalier, project team members.

Beside the lectures held in the museum, on the second day, another field survey was held on the historical site of the monastery of Santa Maria Alta near Bale. M. Jurković presented methods of conservation that were conducted by “Kapitel”, and archaeological research carried out by the CROMART project and IRCLAMA. Also, a workshop on the production of lime plaster was held in front of the facility of “Kapitel” by its director, Branko Orbanić. On the same day, another project was presented. P. Chevalier presented Mapping Heritage Buildings: the New WikiBridge Platform.

On the third day, a walk through Poreč – Roman urbanism and later interpolations – was organised and lectured by M. Jurković.