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Workshops



16-18.07.2025 @ Athens, Greece

SINCERE conference & advanced workshop 2025

A 3-day international conference and advanced workshop for conservation, architecture and engineering professionals titled "Innovative & Sustainable Mortars for Structural and Thermal Retrofitting of 20th Century Buildings".

> Register now!





Conference Sessions



03-05.11.2025  
 @ Vienna, Austria


CHNT 30 ICOMOS Vienna

SINCERE organizes a special session at CHNT 30 on Innovation in Sustainable Restoration of Cultural Heritage Buildings , inviting researchers and professionals from a wide range of different fields related to the restoration of cultural heritage buildings. From material engineers to historians, from net zero and passive house experts to user behaviour analysts, from architects to ICT tools developers, from climate modelling scientists to storytellers. The goal is not to report on highly specialized innovations but to understand the target of sustainable restoration of cultural heritage buildings to its full complexity, and develop effective strategies and coalitions across professional sectors and scientific disciplines.




02-04.09.2025 @ Padova, Italy

7th Historic Mortar Conference

SINCERE organizes a special Session and exhibition at the 7th HMC conference in Padova, Spain. The Call for Papers is closed and we are looking forward to an exciting event where SINCERE will have a strong presence.




05-09.05.2025  
 @ Athens, Greece


Digital Horizons: Embracing heritage in an evolving world

SINCERE organizes a special session on Computational models concerning climate change and its effect on cultural heritage assets, encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations, bringing together expertise from archaeology, materials science, conservation, environmental science, engineering and data science.





Talking Buildings

Combining the Citizen Science and Building Stories collective processes, SINCERE develops the so-called Talking-Buildings game, a playful activitiy proposed to citizens with a special focus to students in schools and universities. The first experiment on giving a voice to buildings took place in the context of the European Heritage Days, an online dialogue between the Neoclassical School in Rhodes (Greece) and the Museum+ in Ostrava (Czech Republique). Since then a dedicated web site was created at talkingbuildings.net.



26-28.09.2025
 @ online



Heritage in Dialogue - European Heritage Days 2025

The European Heritage Days are coming again at the end of September and the topic this year, Heritage and Architecture: Windows to the Past, Doors to the Future is even more relevant than in 2024 when we had the first online dialogue between the Neoclassical School in Rhodes (Greece) and the Museum+ in Ostrava (Czechia). Now we are preparing for the follow up in the context of the recently established #TalkingBuildings citizen science methodology. See talkingbuildings.net.

> Stay tuned for SINCERE's participation in EHD 2025




29.03-03.04.2025
 @ Xanthi, Greece



The spirit of material: Building sustainability

An international student workshop on sustainable design, From Sustainable Design to Circular Economy and Talking Buildings, bringing together students from three architecture/design schools in Israel (HIT), Cyprus (Frederick University), and Greece (Democritus University of Thrace). SINCERE will participate in the workshop by introducing the Talking Buildings Game as a participatory design methodology, which will be applied as a complementary tool in all working groups.




22-24.05.2025  
 @ Graz, Austria


SINCERE Talking-Buildings workshop

A participatory workshop offered in the context of the Design Month Graz 2025, and co-organized on behalf of SINCERE by ECOAMA/ECOWEEK & NetHood.




27.09.2024
 @ online



Heritage in Dialogue - European Heritage Days 2024

In the context of the European Heritage Days, the SINCERE project organized an online dialogue between the Neoclassical School in Rhodes (Greece) and the Museum+ in Ostrava (Czechia). This playful event took place on 27 September 2024 (see the original announcement), and it its success motivated the creation of the dedicated web site talkingbuildings.net.

> Watch the short video teaser or the full recording.





Public Talks



13-17.04.2025  
 @ Ghent, Belgium


Keynote talk by Prof. Liberato Ferrara

The SINCERE innovations will be presented in one of the most important conferences in the area, RILEM.




14.04.2024  
 @ Athens, Greece


Public art and urban experience conference

Ioannis Karatasios is Researcher, member of Ceramics and Composite Materials Group, at the Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology of NCSR “Demokritos”. He is the coordinator of the SINCERE project. In the context of the conference Public art and urban experience at the National Gallery of Athens on 14 April 2024, he gave a presentation on the relationship between nanotechnology and public space, which included a short introduction to the objectives of the SINCERE project.




25.09.2024  
 @ Archanes, Greece


Smart Innovation Symposium #4

up2metric gave a talk on "Digital Technologies for Green Buildings", highlighting aspects of the tech we built in this innovative project, including a smart interoperable platform integrating BIM and Digital Twins, and immersive XR technologies for sustainable renovation and retrofitting of CH buildings.





Ecosystem



08-10.2025  
 @ Milan, Italy


Sustainable Places 2025

Sustainability targets and climate change objectives cannot be met without addressing buildings and the built environment at the building, district and urban scale to include our transport and energy infrastructures. Renowned for showcasing results coming out of the EU Horizon 2020 and EU Horizon Europe Framework Programmes via the participation of cutting-edge research and innovation projects, the scope of SP is captured directly in its name. It involves designing, building and retrofitting the places we live and work in a more sustainable way.




06-07.03.2025  
 @ Brussels, Belgium


New European Bauhaus lighthouse demonstrator

The event is titled Shaping Sustainable Futures: Innovating for People-Centric Cities and Communities, co-organised by NEBULA, Craft Cities, AEGIR and INGUMA projects. SINCERE will be there.




19.11.2024  
 @ Brussels, Belgium


NebulaB4P Clustering event for all 30 projects under Destination 4

The SINCERE project’s coordinator Ioannis Karatasios introduced the project at the clustering event organized by NebulaB4P, and hosted by CINEA - European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency in Brussels.1 This inspiring event brought together representatives from all 30 projects funded under Destination 4 Built4People: "Efficient, sustainable, and inclusive energy use," as part of the Horizon Europe Work Programmes for Climate, Energy, and Mobility. The topics covered in the event included:1) Digital solutions for building operations, 2) Inclusive and resilient environments, and 3) Renovation for low-emission buildings.





SINCERE Encounters

The SINCERE Encounters are informal gatherings between SINCERE project experts and pilot site actors, stakeholders, and citizens to get to know each other and discuss ways that the SINCERE intervention will be productive and beneficial for everyone.


07-09.04.2025  
 @ Inwadar National Park, Malta


SINCERE Encounter at the Inwadar pilot site

In the context of the 4th SINCERE General Assembly we will be hosted by the University of Malta and encounter SINCERE's new pilot site in Malta. We are excited to meet this very interesting small building overlooking the mediterranean sea. A two-storied spotting light tower, erected in 1930s and located on the east coast of Malta, in Zabbar. It is currently planned for restoration and will be repurposed as a study facility, potentially serving as an observation laboratory for research and educational purposes.




23.10.2024  
 @ Algete, Spain


SINCERE Encounter at Algete pilot site

The Algete encounter was of a different nature compated to the Rhodes and Ostrava encounters, since it took place in the context of SINCERE's 3rd general assembly. So, a field trip to ACCIONA's Algete demo site was organized for the whole consortium.

> Watch the 3min video report




13.09.2024  
 @ Ostrava, Czechia


SINCERE Encounter at Ostrava pilot site

SINCERE experts met with local stakeholders (National Heritage Institute, Heritage Conservation Department) and participated in a guided visit and in-depth exchanges on the SINCERE installation on the demo site in terms of performance, aesthetics, and legal aspects. It was a very important meeting in order to gain a good understanding of the limitations and potential of the demo site and sketched a realistic plan for the implementation of the pilot.

> Read the programme




29.03.2024  
 @ Rhodes, Greece


SINCERE Encounter at Rhodes pilot site

Two encounters were organized: 1) with technical experts and policy makers 2) with cultural organizations, with representatives from the Perfecture (building owner), the Rhodes Municipality, and eight cultural organizations.

> Read the main points made during the discussions