Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
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.
The current structure and transformation from ARCHISS to ARCCHIP can be seen in the picture (right).
The ARCCHIP Centre mainly:
- summarises state-of-the-art in selected areas of research in the problems of European cultural heritage study, safeguarding and integration into social and economic sustainability measures, especially in the countries which joined the EU in 2004 and later;
- continuously improves up-to-date mutual information about scientific achievements and capacity of research facilities and supports transition of this information among the EU countries as well as to the countries of Community’s external policy interests;
- helps to select themes for medium term joint or concerted research in the field of cultural heritage and to inform about relevant national and international funding possibilities;
- helps to support cultural heritage research orientation and training of teachers necessary for a sound economic and social local or regional development;
- helps to establish networking and twinning arrangements and links among the EU countries in the area of cultural heritage research;
- helps to materialise national attempts in restructuring of the science and technology sector in the CEEC, e.g. acting as a National Research Centre
- in the past the Centre helped to facilitate all of the above between the pre-Accession countries and EU countries.
29 Apr 2016
