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H2020Staff exchange2021–2025

SCORE · Sustainable COnservation and REstoration of built cultural heritage

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2021-01-01 → 2025-10-31
EU contribution
€506,000
Participants
14
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

Sustainable COnservation and REstoration of built cultural heritage

In Europe the ecological footprint of EU-28 countries grew from 1.6 Gha to 2.3 Gha in fifty years. Researchers and engineers together with stakeholders in charge of built cultural heritage must help to minimise the global ecological footprint by developing resource-efficient and climate-resilient innovative restoration and rehabilitation solutions within a holistic approach. Matching cultural heritage requirements with ecological, economic and social aspects becomes essential and involves all building and require highly qualified labour for conception, execution and conservation works. Decision-makers should combine the needs of society with the obligation to protect environmental and natural resources, whilst at the same time contributing to sustainable future development for integrating circular economy principles. The SCORE project bring together an intersectoral, international and multidisciplinary group in order to strengthen collaborative research and innovation in eco-friendly conservation, restoration, and rehabilitation. It develops a series of innovative materials and methods dedicated to built cultural heritage conservation, integrating the circular economy concept, climate change and ecological footprint constraints, which will be used by stakeholders. Specifically, the SCORE project contributes directly to the implementation of the following three research and innovation objectives: 1. The development of “green” innovations: materials and methods for the conservation of ancient buildings based on a circular economy philosophy which would make “an essential contribution to the EU’s efforts to develop a sustainable, low-carbon, resource-efficient and competitive economy’’. 2. Two-way assessment of impacts of the environment on materials and of materials on the environment: Climate conditions and atmosphere composition determine materials’ behaviour and, at the same time, the built conservation process impacts greenhouse gases emissions and then climate change. 3. Transfer to society: Training and knowledge transfer on both innovative and traditional materials and methods with a low environmental impact will concern consortium members, students, public and private owners, restorers, manufacturers, workers and volunteers on rehabilitation sites.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

SCORE brings together interdisciplinary and inter-sectorial research and innovation teams involved in sustainable conservation of built cultural heritage from 4 European (France, Italy, Spain, Denmark) and 2 Latin America (Colombia, Mexico) countries. Consortium includes academics, governmental institutions, SME and NGO. The goal is to develop international partnerships and to exchange highly qualified expertise in order to propose solutions for green restoration and rehabilitation works. These conservation materials and methods must minimize their ecological footprint according to the EU circular economy action plan and be durable in a changing climate. In order to propose solutions for a large variety of built cultural heritage, two kinds of application cases have been selected, archaeological sites in Yucatan peninsula with an equatorial climate, and vernacular built cultural heritage in different types of warm temperate climates in Europe, using different building materials and techniques.The future development of buildings conservation must be founded on previous experience cumulated during thousands of years and must take advantage of recent progress in technology. Thanks to the emission scenarios and climate models, future environments may be considered to increase the durability of the materials and methods proposed. Main pillars underpinning the SCORE project are:•Circular economy principles •Heritage management including valorisation of built cultural heritage •Development of sustainable and durable conservation techniques for vernacular and monumental architecture•All masonry materials are concerned, traditional and non-traditional ones •Life Cycle Assessment techniques to estimate and minimize ecological footprint•Service life prediction to ensure the durability in present and future climate conditions •Improvement in the techniques to characterise the conservation degree

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • CY CERGY PARIS UNIVERSITE · Cergy-PontoiseCoordinatorFrance
  • AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS · MadridSpain
  • CENTRO DE INVESTIGACION Y DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS DEL INSTITUTO POLITECNICO NACIONAL · MexicoMexico
  • COLEGIO MAYOR DE NUESTRA SENORA DELROSARIO CORPORACION SIN ANIMO DE LUCRO · BOGOTA DCColombia
  • CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE · RomaItaly
  • DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET · Kongens LyngbyDenmark
  • GEA ASESORIA GEOLOGICA · LlaneraSpain
  • INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE ANTROPOLOGIA E HISTORIA · MEXICO DISTRITO FEDERALMexico
  • REMPART · ParisFrance
  • UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE CAMPECHE · CAMPECHEMexico
  • UNIVERSIDAD JUAREZ AUTONOMA DE TABASCO · VillahermosaMexico
  • UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DEL CENTRO · VILLAHERMOSAMexico
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MODENA E REGGIO EMILIA · ModenaItaly
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PAVIA · PaviaItaly

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union