Project description
Making green conservation practices possible
Existing tools and methods to conserve heritage are not always sustainable. The EU-funded GoGreen project seeks to rectify this by targeting conservation practices that are based on green principles. To do this, it will develop damage functions that facilitate environmental control in collections; produce green treatment methods for remedial conservation; adopt innovative techniques and benchmark methods to analyse materials and methods; and build an app and a decision model for conservators to use in remedial conservation treatments. GoGreen will work together with scholars and socio-economists to ensure its tools and methods generate results for everyone’s benefit and for the European Green Deal – a set of policy initiatives that target a climate-neutral EU by 2050.
Objective
Heritage conservation preserves the tangible remains of society, but relies on toxic, unsustainable materials and on energy-consuming air conditioning of collections. GoGreen promotes preventive and remedial conservation practices based on green principles to spearhead the green revolution within conservation. Specifically, GoGreen will: (1) develop new damage functions that allow more flexible environmental control in collections, thus improving energy efficiency; (2) generate innovative nature-inspired, bio-based and historical conservation treatment-inspired methods for remedial conservation, including new cleaning solutions for paintings and metals, all using green solvents, bio-inspired reagents, green delivery systems; and stabilization methods for metal and glass that employ innovative techniques like biopassivation to stabilize metal surfaces and nanomaterials that mimic the growth of silica to stabilize glass; (3) assess our new materials and methods using cutting-edge analytical techniques and benchmark methods in collaboration with expert practitioners and museums, to determine their efficacy in the cleaning of paintings and metals, or the stabilisation of glass and metal objects; (4) develop a digital web-app to aid conservators in the design of green preventive and remedial conservation treatments, and a decision model integrating green thinking in complex conservation decision making. Crucially, GoGreen encompasses all relevant and necessary academic and socio-economic actors spanning the full stakeholder value chain to ensure future impact. Our uniquely advantageous composition coupled with the embedding of bottom-up education of professionals through modules and courses for conservation training programmes, emerging conservators and mid-career professionals, guarantees the next generation of conservators are fully prepared to embrace the GreenDeal.
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- humanities arts visual arts
- social sciences political sciences political transitions revolutions
- engineering and technology materials engineering
- engineering and technology nanotechnology nano-materials
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.2.2 - Cultural Heritage
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2021-HERITAGE-01
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1012WX Amsterdam
Netherlands
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