Innovative and affordable service for the Preventive Conservation monitoring of individual Cultural Artefacts during display, storage, handling and transport (CollectionCare)

Project status

Active

Project execution time

01.03.2019 to 28.02.2022

Project type

Horizon 2020

Project number

H2020-814624

Head of the Institute Department

Bruno Andersons

Involved laboratories

Laboratory of Wood Biodegradation and Protection

Call, activity

Call for proposal: H2020-NMBP-ST-IND-2018 ; Programmes: H2020-EU.2.1.3. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Advanced materials , H2020-EU.2.1.2. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies – Nanotechnologies ; Topic: NMBP-33-2018 - Innovative and affordable solutions for the preventive conservation of cultural heritage (IA) ; Funding scheme: IA - Innovation action

Cooperation partners

Co-ordinator: UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA, Spain (Assoc. Prof. Ángel Perles Ivars)

Partners:

SIGFOX, France
ATOS SPAIN SA, Spain
POSTSCRIPTUM PLIROFORIKI EPIKOINONIAS EPE, Greece
VAN KRALINGEN BV, Netherlands
C.B.C. CONSERVAZIONE BENI CULTURALI SOCIETA COOPERATIVA, Italy
UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKI, Poland
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA, Italy
LATVIAN STATE INSTITUTE OF WOOD CHEMISTRY, Latvia
DET KONGELIGE DANSKE KUNSTAKADEMIS SKOLER FOR ARKITEKTUR, DESIGN OG KONSERVERING, Denmark
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN, Netherlands
DIPUTACION FORAL DE ALAVA, Spain
LATVIJAS ETNOGRAFISKAIS BRIVDABAS MUZEJS / THE ETHNOGRAPHIC OPEN-AIR MUSEUM OF LATVIA, Latvia
INSTITUT VALENCIÀ DE CULTURA, Spain
KONINKLIJKE MUSEA VOOR KUNST EN GESCHIEDENIS, Belgium
ISTORIKI KAI ETHNOLOGIKI ETAIREIA TIS ELLADOS, Greece
DE DANSKE KONGERS KRONOLOGISKE SAMLING PA ROSENBORG, Denmark
INSTYTUT KATALIZY I FIZYKOCHEMII POWIERZCHNI IM. JERZEGO HABERA POLSKA AKADEMIA NAUK, Poland

Project goal

Degradation of a cultural artefact depends on the environmental stress over time, especially during fluctuating environmental conditions, and the reactive behaviours of the materials of its composition. For an effective preventive conservation (PC) it is key to consider the historic environmental stress and degradation kinetics of the different materials (and their synergies) and monitor the artefact at all times. However, due to the heterogeneity of the material nature of the artefacts, this requires expensive monitoring as well as specialized personnel, out of reach for most, small to medium sized museums.

CollectionCare will develop an innovative PC decision support system targeting the needs of small-medium sized museums. It will integrate IoT monitoring of the microclimatology of each artefact at any place, either at display, storage, handling or transport, integrated with multi-scale modelling for the different artefact materials while complying with current PC norms and recommendations. We will integrate latest advances in sensoring electronics, LPWAN wireless communication, multi-scale and multi-material degradation knowledge, big data and cloud computing into a single affordable system, adapted to the specific needs and resources of small museums and collections.
The solution will built on the knowledge of different renown research groups and companies in the fields of PC (KADK, TU/e, LSIWC, UW, URO1 and UPV), cloud computing and big data (ATOS), IoT connectivity (SGF), wireless sensoring (UPV, URO1), artefact transport (CBC, HvK), collection management (PS) as well as a large number of museums to guarantee future market acceptance (DFA-Spain, KMKG-Belgium, CSS-Spain, OAML-Latvia, IEEE-Greece, RDC-Denmark).

The project will also count on a strong International Cooperation by an external Advisory Board of experts with prominent professional background from prestigious institutions and enterprises like: GCI, CCI, ICCROM, ICOMOS, Hispania Nostra and AXA ART.

Project overall budget: EUR 6 239 690 , Common EU contribution EUR 5 759 193 (EU contribution to LSIWC EUR 244 541).