• 9/7/2011 – London, UK
  LACONA IX Lasers in the Conservation of Artworks – Call for papers
  
• 6/16/2011 – Lisbon, PT
  SHATIS’11 – International conference on structural health assessment of timber structures
  
• 5/25/2011 – Marseille, May 25-26 and Antibes, May 27 2011, FR
  From Can to Canvas – Early uses of house paints by Picasso and his contemporaries in the first half of the 20th century
  

CHARISMA (Cultural Heritage Advanced Research Infrastructures: Synergy for a Multidisciplinary Approach to Conservation/Restoration) is an EU-funded integrating activity project carried out in the FP7 Capacities Specific Programme “Research Infrastructures”.
The project provides transnational access to most advanced scientific instrumentations and knowledge allowing scientists, conservators-restorers and curators to enhance their research at the field forefront. Specialists from arts and sciences, design and set-up new instrumentations and methodologies developing the  most promising technological applications and sustainable solutions to improve diagnostics and monitoring. New extended cooperation among European infrastructures, paves the way towards expanding the harmonisation of best practices in studies and conservation.

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CALL FOR PROPOSALS CURRENTLY OPEN  Deadlines:

15th February 2011 (FIXLAB and MOLAB)
16th March 2011 (ARCHLAB)

CHARISMA offers an access free of costs to installations and processes from leading EU Cultural Heritage advanced research facilities supplying researchers’ short-term projects. Access is offered to:
Archives in European museums or conservation institutes (ARCHLAB);
Advanced mobile instrumentation for in-situ non invasive multitechnique measurements (MOLAB);
Integrated platforms where large scale facilities are coupled with medium scale installations  (FIXLAB).

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