• Graduation

    Certificate

  • ECTS-Points

    24

  • Learning format

    Blended Learning

  • Duration

    2 semesters, part time

  • Start

    Summer semester 2026, Krems

  • Admission requirements

    According to curriculum

  • Language

    English

  • Curriculum

    Subject to Senate approval

  • Stackable Program

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The Certificate Program (CP) focuses on the threats and risks to museums, archives and libraries. You will learn how to handle cultural objects made of different materials and how to identify objects that require priority treatment. You will assess the stability of buildings. You will prepare emergency plans for cultural property and test them with local emergency services.

Graduates of the CP will be able to take the lead in preparing emergency plans for cultural institutions, with a focus on movable cultural property, and to test these plans with the emergency services.

The "Emergency Planning in Cultural Property Protection, CP", is part of the Stackable Program and can be flexibly combined with other continuing education programs up to the "Cultural Property Protection, MSc (CE)". The staggered modules of the CP offer our students greater flexibility and better integration into their working lives.


Anna Maria Kaiser

Highlight of the CP is the preparation of an emergency plan for a selected museum and the final testing with emergency services!

Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Anna Maria Kaiser

Study Program Director – Center for Cultural Property Protection

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Benefit from our study program

  • Providing in-depth theory and tools for the strategic development of emergency plans
  • Cooperation and exchange with interdisciplinary professionals and institutions on an equal footing
  • Immediate transfer of profound theory into practice through authentic disaster simulations to enhance operational competences

  • innovative teaching methods

  • practice-oriented

  • interdisciplinary

The "Emergency Planning in Cultural Property Protection, CP" (24 ECTS) can be completed on a part-time basis within 2 semesters.

ECTS
Module 1: Emergency Planning

The CP starts with an introduction to emergency planning for movable cultural property, including crisis management, the national legal framework and the identification and assessment of threat scenarios to cultural property.

Module 2: Material Handling and Building Safety

The second module is dedicated to the handling of various materials, with a focus on preventing further damage when movable cultural property needs to be moved. The module also provides an introduction to collection management and inventory, as well as basic structural principles for assessing whether a building is still safe to enter.

Module 3: Collaboration with Emergency Responders

Module 3 consists of the guided development of an emergency plan for a self-selected museum, archive or library, in which the identification of cultural property and prioritisation options play an important role. An essential part of this module is also the cooperation with the persons in charge of the selected site, as well as with the emergency services, who may also be called upon to assist in the protection of cultural property if necessary. The CP concludes with a cultural property evacuation exercise organised by the students in cooperation with the local emergency services. Completion of the CP will enable students to prepare emergency plans for cultural institutions, with a focus on movable cultural property, and to test the plans prepared in cooperation with local emergency services.

Planned Dates | Summer Semester 2026

  • Module 1: Emergency Planning [6 days]: planned for March 2026
  • Module 2: Material Handling and Building Safety [6 days]: planned for June 2026
  • Module 3: Collaboration with Emergency Responders [6 days]: planned for October 2026

 

Anna Maria Kaiser

Ass.-Prof. Mag. Dr.
Anna Maria Kaiser

Head - Center for Cultural Property Protection

The study program director is Anna Kaiser, Assistant Professor and Head of the Center for Cultural Property Protection. Her research themes predominantly orbit around the protection of cultural property, integrating a multidisciplinary approach that spans ancient history, military studies, and contemporary strategies for safeguarding heritage. Her methodological expertise lies in combining historical analysis with practical military training, emphasizing the application of strategies for protecting cultural heritage in conflict zones and disaster-prone areas.

The lecturers of the CP consist of a large number of renowned international experts from various disciplines with civilian and military backgrounds. They are all involved not only in theoretical and applied research but also in the practice of cultural heritage protection. This ensures that the latest state of research and knowledge is conveyed.

In combination with other continuing education programs, Stackable Programs can be combined to achieve an academic degree.

After the Academic Expert Program (AEP), many other options are open, such as an academic degree (Master).
Tatjana Kohl

The Stackable Program offers me complete flexibility in the design of my studies.

Tatjana Kohl

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Admission requirements

  • university entrance qualification (or equivalent training at least at NQF level IV) OR at least 2 years of relevant professional experience
  • appropriate knownledge of English
  • successful completion of an interview with the study program director

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Follow-up studies & programs

Cultural Property Protection, MSc (CE)

Cultural Property Protection and Disaster Response, CP

Study & Continuing Education Programs of the Center for Cultural Property Protection

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