EU-ARTECH project
Programme: FP 6
Project title: Access, Research and Technology for the conservation of the European Cultural HeritageAcronym: EU-ARTECH
Duration: 2005-2009
Total budget: € 4.370.000
Web site: www.eu-artech.org
Summary: The objective of EU-ARTECH is to achieve a permanent interoperability among the participating infrastructures, establishing cooperation and exchange of knowledge with the other infrastructures in the field, in the perspective of structuring a common European research area. The activity programme of the five-year EU-ARTECH project was articulated in:
1-Networking
Networking is devoted to promote exchange of knowledge, to diffuse good
practices in conservation and to define common work-parameters to improve the
comparability of results and quality of research.
2-Access
I - AGLAE, a single high-level
infrastructure located in Paris at the Flore Pavilion of the Palais du Louvre
(CNRS-C2RMF), where non-destructive elemental composition studies are carried
out with high sensitivity and precision, in a unique environment of
art-historians, restorers and scientists having a large expertise on artwork
studies and conservation;
II - MOLAB, a unified group of joint infrastructures, located in Firenze and Perugia (UNI-PG,
CNR-ICVBC, OPD, INOA), where a unique collection of portable instrumentations,
together with competences on methods and materials, is available for in-situ
non-destructive measurements. The access is devoted to artwork studies and/or
evaluation of conservation-restoration methods, directly in a museum room, or
on the scaffold of a restoration workshop or in an archaeological site.
3-Joint research activities
Joint research activities are devoted to improve the performances of the participating infrastructures and the quality of the access offered to the scientific community.
Contact person in ISMAR: paola.letardi@ismar.cnr.it
Partnership:
ISMAR Genoa has participated as sub-contractor for the characterization on coated and non-coated metals.
