The issue no. 1 /2021 of ITAM CAS Newsletter has been published.

Newsletter 1/2021 CZ (11,4 MB)

Newsletter 1/2021 EN (8,16 MB)

IPERION HS and E-RIHS are organizing a series of webinars, a key source of state-of-the-art information on heritage science research, facilities, policy and impact. It contributes to developing a vibrant heritage science community and is intended for anyone involved in interdisciplinary heritage research.

We are pleased to invite you to an international conference Hidden Beneath the Surface: Archaeological Areas of Europe. Deadline for abstracts → 30 June 2021.

Call for Papers & Information

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IPERION HS and E-RIHS are organizing a series of webinars, a key source of state-of-the-art information on heritage science research, facilities, policy and impact. It contributes to developing a vibrant heritage science community and is intended for anyone involved in interdisciplinary heritage research.

Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences operates specialised research infrastructure for heritage science and provides services for interdisciplinary research in the field. The STARCAIS programme offers infrastructure support to young researchers – Ph.D. students or post-docs - at the beginning of their career.

The 1st STRENCH International Conference will bring together distinguished experts on climate modelling, climate change related threats to cultural and natural heritage, vulnerability ranking and criticalities for cultural heritage protection as well as the use of 21st century technology for defining priorities for action and preparing disaster response mechanisms for cultural heritage protection.

Register Now: www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbu/strench-conference

From June 7th to 11th 2021 will be held the STRENCH Summer School ENVIMAT and Cultural Property Protection Summer School 2021 with the title Risk Management and Protection Strategies for Cultural Landscapes in Climate Change.

Czech scientists described a new genus of reed. The results of tomographic scans from the Laboratory of X-ray Tomograpgy in Centre Telč, ITAM CAS contributed significantly to its diagnostics. Yhe Head of the laboratory, Assoc. Prof. Michal Vopálenský, is one of the co-authors of the related publication in a prestigious scientific journal Scientific Reports from the Nature publishing house.

On behalf of the organizing team, the members of WTA – International (TC5 Concrete) and of the JPI-CH CONSECH20 project, we cordially invite you to the 7th Colloquium WTA – Strategies for the Conservation of Historic Concrete Buildings and Structures, which will take place on June 10th, 2022.

E-RIHS (www.e-rihs.eu) and IPERION HS (www.iperionhs.eu) are organizing a series of webinars, a key source of state-of-the-art information on heritage science research, facilities, policy and impact. It aims at developing a vibrant heritage science community and is intended for anyone involved in interdisciplinary heritage research.

We are pleased to invite you to an international conference Hidden Beneath the Surface: Archaeological Areas of Europe. Deadline for abstracts → 30 June 2021.

Call for Papers & Information

Registration Form

Starting Research Career Infrastructure Services in Heritage Science

Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Czech Academy of Sciences operates specialised research infrastructure for heritage science and provides services for interdisciplinary research in the field. The STARCAIS programme offers infrastructure support to young researchers – Ph.D. students or post-docs - at the beginning of their career.

CONSErvation of 20th centrury concrete Cultural Heritage in urban changing environments

CONSECH20 is a research project that aims at developing effective approaches for conservation and protection of 20th cent. heritage concrete buildings against the ever-changing urban impacts, taking into account both technical and social aspects.

The website deals with historical production of burnt lime and related lime technologies, traditional craftsmanship of prossesing and utilization of lime in construction. The main objective is a thourough and complex knowledge of the above, a material-based research and a reconstruction of historical procedures. A common goal is to bring attention to the unique historical techniques, which used to be succesfully employed in the past, nowadays, however, are for the main part forgotten. The website is concieved as an open one, striving to gradually add new related information researched by a wide range of experts on archeology, construction materials, history of construction etc.

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.