Washington – A lot can be done for the Protection of Cultural Property in seismic areas, the aim of the PON01-02710 project, funded by the Ministry of Education, University and Research and implemented by the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). The project, known as “Maximum,” was recently presented at the Italian Embassy and the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington DC, illustrating the architecture infrastructure, its monitoring system and major technological and scientific results obtained in demonstrators set in the Calabria Region. The two workshops saw the participation of INGV representatives as well as of the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), the University of Calabria, federal agencies such as the United States Geological Survey (USGS), the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the US Agency for Development Cooperation (USAID), the National Gallery, and several American universities and research centers. (9Colonne)
