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GREEN ART

GREEN ENDEAVOR IN ART RESTORATION

HORIZON-CL2-2021-HERITAGE-01 | Grant agreement ID: 101060941

October 2022 – October 2025

The vast European Cultural Heritage (CH) is a crucial societal and economic resource: it favors inclusivity and job creation, and promotes resilience of our society against the emerging issues of the 21st century, economic crisis and social alienation, made worse by the current Covid-19 pandemic. To keep such advantages, CH assets must be maintained, well preserved and accessible, counteracting degradation processes that are often enhanced by unfavorable environmental conditions and climate changes. However, despite some progress fostered by research in the last decade, the traditional materials and methodologies used in current remedial and preventive conservation practice lack durability, sustainability and cost-effectiveness. Besides, they are typically based on energy consuming processes or non-environmentally friendly materials, such as petroleum-based solvents (mineral spirits). Instead, during the past years, the EU has strongly stimulated the development of new and innovative bio-derived compounds/materials as alternatives to fossil-based chemicals.

GREEN ART

GREEN ENDEAVOR IN ART RESTORATION

HORIZON-CL2-2021-HERITAGE-01 | Grant agreement ID: 101060941

October 2022 – October 2025

The vast European Cultural Heritage (CH) is a crucial societal and economic resource: it favors inclusivity and job creation, and promotes resilience of our society against the emerging issues of the 21st century, economic crisis and social alienation, made worse by the current Covid-19 pandemic. To keep such advantages, CH assets must be maintained, well preserved and accessible, counteracting degradation processes that are often enhanced by unfavorable environmental conditions and climate changes. However, despite some progress fostered by research in the last decade, the traditional materials and methodologies used in current remedial and preventive conservation practice lack durability, sustainability and cost-effectiveness. Besides, they are typically based on energy consuming processes or non-environmentally friendly materials, such as petroleum-based solvents (mineral spirits). Instead, during the past years, the EU has strongly stimulated the development of new and innovative bio-derived compounds/materials as alternatives to fossil-based chemicals.

Coping with these issues, GREENART proposes new solutions, based on green and sustainable materials and methods, and on the elaboration of advanced tools, to preserve, conserve and restore CH. Our main objective is to produce safe and effective solutions for the remedial and preventive conservation of CH, based on environmentally friendly and low-impact materials made from renewable natural sources or recycled waste. Our ambition is to set these new classes of materials as standards in the restoration practice, and as models of cutting-edge technologies to be transferred in transversal fields such as food industry, detergency, cosmetics and tissue engineering.

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Within this project, SP will be provider of various bio-based monomers and polymers. Some monomers (epoxides, acrylates, disulfides) will be used for the preparation of hydro/organogel employed for the confinement of cleaning fluids. Other monomers (cyclocarbonates, epoxides and acrylates) will be applied for the preparation of polyhydroxyurethane, epoxy resin and acrylate resin with the aim to propose sustainable polymer protective coatings. At last, bio-based polymers will be required for the preparation of green polyurethane packaging.

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