Application for the Advanced Masters Instructural Analysis of Monuments and Historical Construcions

A four-year collaborative project between eight European universities and research institutes began, pushing the boundaries of interdisciplinary education and research in materials science and archaeology. The project with a total grant of four million Euros is fully funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action under the EU Research and Innovation funding programme Horizon2020. The project runs from 2021 to 2025.

All interested parties are invited to participate on the first Local Working Table meeting of the STRENCH project (Interreg Central Europe), which will be held on Friday, 26th February 2021 at 15:00 via the Zoom app here: https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/96400374538?pwd=a3dmbWtjRmdEcXRxMC91MzV5NWhpdz09. The aim of the meeting is to inform about the newest deveopment in the project, its outputs so far and to provoke a discussion with the stakeholders in the field of protection of natural heritage against natural hazards. The focus will be on the Troja hamlet as one of the project pilot sites.

Newsletter No. 1 of the Interreg Danube Transnational Programme project Living Danube Limes has been published.

Newsletter no. 1 of the Interreg Central Europe project STRENCH (CE1665) has been published. The Newsletter covers the period from April to December 2020.

The Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce the launch of a tender for an additional postdoctoral position for the project "CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_053/0016918 Rozvoj lidských zdrojů ÚTAM AV ČR" (Development of Human Resources at ITAM CAS), for the "Dynamics and Wind Engineering" activity.

In the prestigious yearbook Elettra synchrotron Highlights for the years 2019-2020, an article by the author team from the Materials Research Department composed of Radek Ševčík and Dita Machová was included among the best in the past two years. The article fosuses on changing the microstructure of limestone after application of nanocalcium in combination with calcium carbonate polymorphs. Other co-authors were researchers from Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste (Italy) and Jülich Center for Neutron Science JCNS at MLZ (Germany).

The Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences published its 8th Newsletter, labeled EXTRA, as it is a special issues dedicated to the Stretegy AV21 programme no. 23 "City as a laboratory of change; buildings, cultural heritage and environment for safe and quality life".

Newsletter EXTRA (2/2020) can be read here, this time only in Czech.

Cultural Heritage objects built from calcareous material are often exposed to adverse environmental conditions which may cause significant damage. The so called nano lime has been used to protect and conserve them. The Czech, German and Italian scientists - among them our colleagues from Centre Telč ITAM CAS, Radek Ševčík, Dita Machová and Alberto Viani - studied the efficiency of the material in protecting the cultural heritage objects in Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Zentrum (MLZ). They used only non-invasive methods.

In the second half of 1990s, an increased attention was paid to the safeguarding of the built heritage and its integration into the life of contemporary society. The complexity of problems of cultural heritage called for modern interdisciplinary approach and this was started in a systematic way in 1995 by founding of a new department of the Institute - the Associated Research Centre for Historic Structures and Sites (ARCHISS) - joining together researchers from two institutes of the Academy of Sciences. The process continued, because of success in grant project competitions and now there are scientists involved in the research from other institutes and universities and two operating research units - one in Prague and one in another World Heritage City of Telč.

Roman-catholic diocese of St.Pölten and the city of Brno own a great many buildings, such as churches, rectories and monasteries. These structures do not always have a purpose, which consequently has a negative impact on urban development. Not being in use causes their decay. The current problems are of the same character on both sides of the regions' borders, caused mainly by a negative demographic development and past political events in the course of the 20th century.

Utilization of nanomaterials for sustainable conservation of historical sculptures and architectonic works of litavský limestone.  More at: http://www.nanolithproject.eu/