81 PROJECTS’ SELECTION tectonicproject.eu TECTONIC Project Leader: Università della Calabria (UNICAL) Time Duration: 2020 – ongoing Countries Involved: Argentina, Greece, Italy Keywords: Protection, Research & Innovation, Technologies Description Documentation and conservation of underwater cultural heritage are crucial to preserving humankind’s history and traditions, safeguarding tangible testimonies of past human life while ensuring its accessibility to present and future generations. However, operating on the underwater cultural heritage is much more difficult than subaerial cultural heritage, for many reasons. The preservation, conservation or restoration of underwater archaeological sites requires the adoption of sustainable and affordable solutions aiming primarily at preserving them in situ as well as increasing the knowledge around them. This creates several research challenges that are intrinsically interdisciplinary because they involve strict collaboration among various experts from different sectors like archaeology, geology, biology, marine science, engineering, robotics, computer science and many other disciplines. The main aim of the project is to promote an intersectoral collaboration between academic and non-academic professionals working in these different topics and support the exchange of skills and expertise between them to implement, improve and assess innovative materials, techniques, tools, and methodologies for underwater cultural heritage. All exchanges are supported by specific training programmes and in-lab and on-field activities. They are devoted to stimulating new ideas that would lead to the development of new marketable products by capitalising on the research results that will be achieved in the project, creating a link between business, research, and higher education. Output The outputs of the project are the following: the development of decision support tools for underwater cultural heritage risk assessment in a changing environment; the implementation of studies, protocols and suitable procedures for preservation/ conservation activities; the development of open and low-cost robotic solutions for the inspection, documentation, and monitoring of underwater cultural heritage.
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