Net - Heritage European network on research programme applied to the Protection of Tangible cultural Heritage

Project overview

NET-HERITAGE

is the first significant initiative ever attempting to coordinate national RTD programmes of European countries and support the European RTD Programmes in the field of research applied to the Protection for Tangible Cultural Heritage. Its aim to exert a massive and positive impact through the following objectives:
- provide an integrated picture of the state-of-the-art of cultural heritage research in the European Member States and at the European level;
- overcome the lack of a coordinated research structure in this specific and multidisciplinary sector. With Programmes fostering integration between the art-history-conservation-maintenance-restoration areas and the architectural-chemical-physics-engineering areas;
- limit fragmentation within, and among, national research programmes by identifying common strategic priorities for research and cultural heritage programmes;
- create effective actions to stimulate the exploitation of research results, and underpin cooperation between researchers and cultural heritage institutions for the application of identified solutions;
- face problems due to insufficient and dispersed funding, in terms of local level and size of funding, compared to other research sectors;
- favour exchange between national programmes and European work programmes, in order to avoid a single top-down approach.

NET-HERITAGE intends to achieve the following principal outcomes:
- coordinating actions within the European partnership;
- favouring the protection of the moveable and immoveable tangible cultural heritage;
- expanding the potential of the cultural heritage research sector;
- enhancing the dissemination of research results and news in the field of protection of tangible cultural heritage;
- increasing the visibility of the social and economic importance of the cultural heritage sector;
- supporting educational and training programmes and activities in the sector;
- developing a common framework of policies aimed at improving the protection of cultural heritage;
- favouring common actions aimed at promoting European Cultural Heritage research outside Europe.