Florence in bid to host E-RIHS headquarters

FLORENCE, ITALY – March 30-31, 2017 E-RIHS, currently in its preparatory phase, will be officially launched in Florence. The Tuscan capital will also bid to host the headquarter.

E-RIHS, European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science, coordinated by Italian National Research Council, is the only pan-European Research Infrastructure in the field of social and cultural innovation that has been accepted in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructure (ESFRI) Roadmap 2016.

The center connects researchers in the natural sciences and humanities and fosters a trans-disciplinary culture of exchange and cooperation while offering access to a wide range of cutting-edge facilities, high-level scientific instruments, methodologies, data and tools for advancing knowledge and innovation in the study and preservation of heritage.

E-RIHS brings together 18 countries as founding members, 10 international countries as supporting partners and over 80 institutions. E-RIHS is a distributed research infrastructure with a central hub in Florence and national nodes located across Europe. National nodes are made of fixed and mobile national infrastructures of recognized excellence, physically accessible collections/archives and virtually accessible heritage data.

E-RIHS is now working on assembling a worldwide network of affiliated partners and creating a global research infrastructure with the support of the intergovernmental organization ICCROM.