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MOLAB Transnational Access
Some interventions carried out by MOLAB within the Project Iperion
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IPERION’S ACTIVITIES, a natural continuation of the previous EU-ARTECH and CHARISMA, is a network of 23 partners from 12 Member States (plus 1 in the United States). The Consortium brings together major research centers operating in the field of heritage science, which include excellent research institutes, prestigious laboratories and conservation centers based in museums and other institutions. IPERION is also affiliated with the digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities, DARIAH ERIC, represented by the INRIA consortium. As already mentioned, IPERION's long-term goal is the creation of a single pan-European research infrastructure in the field of heritage science. The research of heritage science is considered to be a specific European interest by EU, given the vastness and uniqueness of the cultural heritage of the whole of Europe, a potential source of economic benefits through tourism and social benefits through its cohesive force. In this context, specific objectives of IPERION activities are:
(a) aggregating the network of national infrastructures on heritage science, spread across Europe, into a single pan-European distributed infrastructure; (b) increase and enhance the cooperation and mobility of researchers in the field of heritage science, connecting the best European and extra-European institutions in a global network of scientific collaboration; (c) offer young researchers transnational access to advanced diagnostic tools and methodologies, integrated into a platform that synergistically combines large scale facilities (synchrotrons and neutron sources), mobile laboratories with high-performance portable analytical systems (MOLAB) and archives of scientific data concerning the materials of cultural heritage; (d) to promote, provide and strengthen multidisciplinary relations between the natural sciences and the humanities, promoting the advancement of heritage science; (e) provide a comprehensive view of the priorities of research in heritage science, to maximize research results and support innovation by accelerating knowledge processes; (f) establish and disseminate best practices and protocols; (g) pursue the achievement of interoperability between institutions; (h) improve the professionalism of human resources for the conservation of European heritage through multidisciplinary training and advanced education in the field. Based on the results achieved by CHARISMA, IPERION was included, in March 2016, in the European roadmap for the establishment of new infrastructures, the only new European infrastructure in the Science and Cultural Innovation area. The new infrastructure, currently in its preparatory phase, is called E-RIHS, European Research Infrastructure in Heritage Science.
Within IPERION, the SMAArt Centre participates in the performance of many work-packages, from the supply of transnational access services (through MOLAB) to the development of research and networking and training activities.
Molab Transnational access
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The CHARISMA project was followed by IPERION-CH, coordinated by the CNR-INO (National Institute of Optics) in Florence. The long-term goal of IPERION (as it was for EU-Artech and CHARISMA) was the establishment of a single European infrastructure for the study and conservation of cultural heritage. The SMAArt Center participates within a Joint Research Unit, with the CNR-ISTM-Section of Perugia and the Diagnostic Laboratory of Spoleto. Activities of transnational access to resources and advanced skills are the core of the project, offered to the scientific community of the sector, and the development of research aimed at improving their quality. In this framework, the continuation and expansion of the MOLAB access activities previously developed was planned. The access and research of IPERION are accompanied by high-level actions for training, dissemination, communication and technology transfer. The effective dissemination of the results of the research activities and the capacity of the access services provided by IPERION are now the subject of various initiatives that also include the organization of periodic experimental training campaigns in situ in which demonstrations are carried out, addressed to new potential users (students, researchers and businesses), on methodological approaches and best practices of heritage science. using innovative instruments. As part of the project activities, in addition to the transnational accesses of the MOLAB mobile laboratory, research and development activities continue in the field of diagnostics for conservation which will be described in detail below.
The transnational access Molab
The researches for the development of innovative diagnostic methodologies
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Researches for the development of diagnostic innovative methodologies
Thanks to the financial support of the IPERION project and on the basis of the results achieved in its different accesses, research activities for the development of methodologies for non-invasive diagnostic are in progress.
These researches concern:
(a) the study of the nature and spectroscopic behavior of cadmium/zinc/selenium pigments in relation to their composition and structure;
(b) photochemical characterization of pigments in modern and contemporary art;
(c) development of techniques of absorption and emission hyperspectral imaging in visible and near infrared
Some photos and images from the Website of the European Project are available at the following website: www.iperionch.eu: Gallery Iperion CH
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- Written by Cristina Martinelli
IPERION'S ACTIVITIES, a natural continuation of the previous EU-ARTECH and CHARISMA, is a network of 23 partners from 12 Member States (plus 1 in the United States). The Consortium brings together major research centers operating in the field of heritage science, which include excellent research institutes, prestigious laboratories and conservation centers based in museums and other institutions. IPERION is also affiliated with the digital research infrastructure for the arts and humanities, DARIAH ERIC, represented by the INRIA consortium. As already mentioned, IPERION's long-term goal is the creation of a single pan-European research infrastructure in the field of heritage science. The research of heritage science is considered to be a specific European interest by EU, given the vastness and uniqueness of the cultural heritage of the whole of Europe, a potential source of economic benefits through tourism and social benefits through its cohesive force. In this context, specific objectives of IPERION activities are:
(a) aggregating the network of national infrastructures on heritage science, spread across Europe, into a single pan-European distributed infrastructure; (b) increase and enhance the cooperation and mobility of researchers in the field of heritage science, connecting the best European and extra-European institutions in a global network of scientific collaboration; (c) offer young researchers transnational access to advanced diagnostic tools and methodologies, integrated into a platform that synergistically combines large scale facilities (synchrotrons and neutron sources), mobile laboratories with high-performance portable analytical systems (MOLAB) and archives of scientific data concerning the materials of cultural heritage; (d) to promote, provide and strengthen multidisciplinary relations between the natural sciences and the humanities, promoting the advancement of heritage science; (e) provide a comprehensive view of the priorities of research in heritage science, to maximize research results and support innovation by accelerating knowledge processes; (f) establish and disseminate best practices and protocols; (g) pursue the achievement of interoperability between institutions; (h) improve the professionalism of human resources for the conservation of European heritage through multidisciplinary training and advanced education in the field. Based on the results achieved by CHARISMA, IPERION was included, in March 2016, in the European roadmap for the establishment of new infrastructures, the only new European infrastructure in the Science and Cultural Innovation area. The new infrastructure, currently in its preparatory phase, is called E-RIHS, European Research Infrastructure in Heritage Science.
Within IPERION, the SMAArt Centre participates in the performance of many work-packages, from the supply of transnational access services (through MOLAB) to the development of research and networking and training activities.