Cultural Heritage lies at the heart of both, the diversity and the identity between regions in the evolving EU, and its appreciation is thus essential for enhancing the integration process. Therefore, the long term preservation of Europe's cultural heritage is a duty and a challenge, for ethical and political reasons, as well as for the health of the EU economy.

Crossing borders is an essential part of research for safeguarding cultural heritage. Interdisciplinary approaches need to bring together highly specialised experts, developing new technologies with the end users who are in charge of historic objects and ancient sites.

This COST workshop has been conceived with the following objectives: to increase awareness of the need for protection of cultural heritage, to promote conservation research on a European level, to encourage networking between different international organisations, to present the results of COST Actions and to explore potential synergies for the future.

The organisers invite experts from different fields and stakeholders on different levels to attend: curators, conservators and heritage managers in charge of collections or archaeological sites; scientists, engineers and architects experienced in interdisciplinary research for cultural heritage; politicians and decision makers involved in cultural issues.

The preliminary programme - available now!
The organisers have invited high level speakers from European Research Programmes and international organisations in cultural heritage, as well as outstanding scientists working in conservation. "Crossing borders" in Florence provides a unique opportunity for networking on European level.

Registration. You are kindly requested to register on this site(see related documents below).

For direct contact: Luigi Piccardi , e-mail: r.salimbeni@ifac.cnr.it or   COST@geo.unifi.it The registration fee is 100 EURO, including lunch for two days and social events. Gala dinner tickets for accompanying persons are available at 50 EURO.

There will be a poster session during the conference! You are kindly invited to join and present your poster(s) to the conference participants! Only a limited number of posters will be accepted.
For poster applications please contact the local organisers!