define strategy for regular preventive maintenance. — Fundamental project activities involve monu- ment monitoring on site, elaboration of monitoring report, drafting of recommendation and small de- fect repair. — During the first months of project implemen- tation, initial training and specialized courses were conducted, as required by law, in order for the mon- itoring teammembers to qualify for specialised jobs. — Three mobile teams were established in West- ern, Central and Eastern Slovakia, fully trained and equipped with the capacity to identify and repair easy-to-mend defects at historic monuments. — The integral part of the teams’ work is the ed- ucational element, which includes advice to monu- ment owners/administrators about adequate ways to mend small defects and practical examples of repairs and cleaning work. — An equally important part of the project plan is drafting new guidelines for monument owners that will be publicly accessible at the Monuments Board website. Guidelines describe steps necessary to be taken for self-monitoring and basic repair of selected parts of the immovable monuments. Components: [K] Knowledge and Education Targeted audience: Owners of immovable monuments Aims / Content: Preventive maintenance of the immovable cultural monuments Year / Duration: 2014 Online material: http://www.promonumenta.sk/index.php?id=3&l=en Slovakia Pro - Monumenta tasks of the governmental strategy “Strategy of pro- tecting the monument fund in the Slovak Republic”. — The project’s implementation started with publicly accessible monuments owned by the state, local government and churches and since January 2017, this was extended on monuments in the ownership of other legal or physical entities (with minor financial contribution of the owner). The Monuments Board of the Slovak Republic or its respective regional offices are in charge of selecting monuments for participation in the project, based on updated knowledge of their values, state of pres- ervation and need for safeguarding intervention. — After the 1989, the state lost its monopoly on ownership of cultural monuments. Some of the problems that occurred afterwards were connect- ed to the lack of specialized knowledge and aware- ness about the proper maintenance of monuments among new owners. In order to address these problems, the government of the Slovak Republic approved the strategic material “Strategy of protect- ing the monuments fund in the Slovak Republic“, whose aim is to improve the physical state and the public awareness of monuments and historical sites. — On this basis, the project Pro Monumenta - Prevention by maintenance, has been developed. The project is based on a prerequisite that regular maintenance of immovable monuments is cheaper than its restoration once in several decades. Many monument defects and damages are caused by sim- ple neglect or inadequate maintenance. Since the monuments are typically neither owned, nor utilised by specialists in monument care, there is a need to Sources: www.herein-system.eu/strategy-xxi http://www.promonumenta.sk/index.php?id=3&l=en ro - Monumenta is a project focused on preven- tive maintenance of the immovable cultural monuments and it represents one of the main P European Cultural Heritage Strategy for the 21 st century „ Page 81