During the first 2 years of the project we started the all the seven work packages. The consortium presented seven deliverables, passed five milestones and secondments were fulfilled according to the agreement.
In this period, WARMEST have achieved most of the scientific objectives set for the first term. The project required an intensive "preparation" work, consisting in analysing the different and more suitable methods of data collection. We could never forget that the spaces the work that was going to be done was going to take places in sites with specific characteristics: world famous, centuries old and heavily visited. At this early stage, extensive bibliographic research was done on the sites.
Alhambra is not a castle or similar, but a nazri citadel. It means it covers a big area. First thing was to limit the scope of the research to a meaningful space. Fortunately enough, Alhambra managers perceived the impact this project would have for them and stablished “Patio de Los Leones”, with particular attention to columns state and plaster damages, as the space to be analyzed. Basically the most important spot in Alhambra. Also in Florence, WARMEST is dealing with one of the more important sites in town, the well known church of Santa Croce. Again, a huge site. It was agreed with the Foundation that takes care of the site that the second cloister –by Brunelleschi– would be the objective of the project. In Marzamemi we concentrate our studies over the water pollution analysis and the systems to increase tourism through dissemination activities of the underwater heritage sites.
Sometime before the end of the first year, researchers took over Alhambra and started data collection. Columns were documented using regular and thermal images. Same thing happened in Marzamemi sometime later.
From the project management point of view, the project started as scheduled and the secondment, after some adjustments was inline with the scheduled ones. Some changed will be added after the amendment approval from EU, due to the changing in the consortium (different efforts of the old beneficiaries and the entrance of 2 new ones).
Dissemination and communication started from the very beginning, right during the Kickoff meeting, with a press release at local level, in Granada and Andalusia. Partners did some communication work with media in their territories. This firs year has been devoted to the website, the social media and, above all, the presentation of the project at different specialized conferences, seminars and forums, during the second year, that line of work has continued both with social media and with specialized seminars. The communication of the project itself is crucial but there has been a lot of research on how to find new ways to reach a broader audience in order to increase heritage awareness, especially in the territories where the sites are. As a result, this research is now directed to join contemporary art and heritage sites as one of the most productive methods to call attention upon heritage. Some actions are being developed for years three and four related to contemporary art activities in the heritage sites of Marzamemi and Alhambra.
