Our institute is hosting 2nd Training Camp within IPERION HS Academy.

The 2nd Training Camp “Built Heritage in Changing Environment” is held this year from June 26th to June 30th, in Telč, Czech Republic.

After six months, we bring you the new issue of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechnianics, CAS Newsletter, summarizing the interesting events of the past half-year.
Newsletter 2/2022 - Czech

Newsletter 2/2022 - English

It is our pleasure to invite you to the HS Academy Lecture #05 of the series "Current Topics in Heritage Science" (CTinHS) to be held online on 19th January, 2023, at 3 pm (Rome time).
Sahra Talamo will present a lecture (30 minutes of webinar followed by Q&A session) on the topic "Timing the spread of creative innovations by Homo sapiens and Neanderthals using the radiocarbon dating method". Kindly find below the brief information about the event.

prof. Ing. Miroš Pirner, DrSc., dr.h.c. 11.9.1928 - 13.12.2022

We are deeply saddened to announce that on Tuesday, 13 December 2022, our long-time colleague and former Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Prof. Miroš Pirner, has passed away at the age of 94. The last farewell took place on Wednesday, 21 December 2022 at 12:15 pm in the ceremonial hall of the crematorium in Prague-Motol.

PDF Announcement in Czech.

The E-Newsletter no. 5 of the Interreg Danube Transnational Programme project Living Danube Limes (DTP359) has been published. The Newsletter covers the project events in the second half of 2022.

E-Newsletter no. 5 - Czech version

E-Newsletter no. 5 - English version

You are invited to join "Current Topics in Heritage Science" Lecture 04/2022: Past, present and future of citizen heritage science that will be delivered by Dr. Josep Grau-Bove on Thursday, December 15th, 2022, at 3.00 PM CET.

You are invited to join "Current Topics in Heritage Science" Lecture 03/2022:  Chromatographic analyses of molluskan purple pigments that will be delivered by Prof. Zvi Koren on Thursday, October 17th, 2022, at 3.00 PM CET.

The E-Newsletter no. 4 of the Interreg Danube Transnational Programme project Living Danube Limes (DTP359) has been published. The Newsletter covers the project events in the first half of 2022.

E-Newsletter No. 4 - Czech version

E-Newsletter No. 4 - English version

More about the project

Website of the project

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 would like to invite you to the 9/2022 HS Academy webinar "Olfactory heritage: preserving the smell of sites and collections" that will take place on November 8th, 2022 at 3 p.m. (Rome time).

On November 7th and 8th, 2022, a symposium on Heritage Science: Interdisciplinarity, Internationality and Infrastructures will take place in the MUNI Telč University Center. The event takes place within the framework of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the European Union and is supported by the Czech Academy of Sciences and Kraj Vysočina. Registration is possible until September 30, 2022.

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

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.