Lasers ART's Sake IESL-FORTH Cultural Heritage
HERACLES project will design, validate and promote responsive systems/solutions for effective resilience of CH against climate change effects, considering as a mandatory premise a holistic, multidisciplinary approach through the involvement of different expertise
Past Funding International Projects
ACCELERATE is a Marie Skłodowska Curie IF-Project that aims to develop a rapid and affordable technique using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) to retrieve climatic information preserved in the elemental composition of marine mollusc shell carbonates.
PARTHENOS stands for “Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies”. It is inspired by the name of Athena Parthenos, the Greek goddess of wisdom, inspiration and civilization.
May 04 – 10, 2015
Lectures from experts on modern laser diagnostic and analytical techniques, as well as on laser cleaning methodologies will be combined with practical demonstrations and laboratory hands-on sessions. Two days of field tests and experiments on-site at selected monuments in Crete is also foreseen.
Laserlab-Europe, the Integrated Initiative of European Laser Research Infrastructures, understands itself as the central place in Europe where new developments in laser research take place in a flexible and co-ordinated fashion beyond the potential of a national scale.
24 MArch 2014 – 04 April 2014
“The Acropolis Restoration Project and the Laser Application”
Laser conservation technique for Acropolis monuments now goes to major US universities
A. June 23- 27, 2014 POLITEIA Analytical
B. June 30- July 04, 2014 POLITEIA Cleaning
“Laser technologies in Cultural Heritage analysis, diagnosis and conservation”
A series of transportable instruments are the technological output of the 20 years of experience which was gained through research and applications of lasers in Cultural Heritage Conservation. Check out all available Instruments here
14 September 2012
International Award to the Acropolis Museum and FORTH for the laser cleaning of Caryatids
List of Past Funding projects
Lasers hold an important role in the protection and study of Cultural Heritage (CH) Monuments and objects.