Objectives

  Main

Provide the best opportunity for developing research at the forefront of the field, combining advanced scientific research infrastructures with high-level knowledge of  leading technology institutes on cultural heritage.

Couple cutting-edge research to intelligent delivery systems through interaction with end-users and experts in science for the cultural heritage disciplines. 

Optimize the use of infrastructures through a coordinated program of transnational access, joint research and networking activities.

Overcome the lack of a coherent powerful platform of access to the widest number of scientific techniques available in large scale installations and small/medium facilities, sustaining combined experimental strategies.

  EU cultural heritage scale

Develop a common accessible platform offering Users the most advanced European facilities embedded in a complementary and multidisciplinary environment involving material science and artwork conservation/restoration.

Create  a solid base for outstanding innovation in the capacity-building policies of science and technology, with expert knowledge on the most significant advances for safeguarding and protecting cultural heritage, enhancing the project openness across Europe and beyond.

Hold a program of open workshops and training to introduce curators, research-conservators and conservation scientists to the questions involved.

Promote a joint reflection work and  share the best practice for multi-technique analysis of samples, analytical data assessment or degradation issues as well as knowledge on large scale conservation projects.

  Scientific and Technological

Design and set-up innovative instrumentations, for in-situ 2D and 3D examinations of artworks, and new cleaning techniques.  

Improve  access to databases exploiting digitalization of data and their harmonization.

Carry out research on dyestuff identification to further elucidate the composition and behavior of organic colorants.

Develop patterning and orientation techniques and new methodologies for the study of organic materials and their distribution  in micro-samples or directly at the surface of the object.