This evening will start the "Cultural Heritage and Future" course which encompasses three short seminaries of 12 hours each. Lectures will be framed in the current economic and social reality that determines the new approaches to work, study and research about Cultural Heritage.

More information in the attached document.

The Cultural Heritage (CH) has experienced a boom in the last decade: investments were made, directly related to infrastructure,  training programs have been opened and professional training projects have been funded ... But now, in times of crisis, maintenance is threatened and continuity. Become aware of where we stand today and where we can orient ourselves, is a necessary exercise that they have to make all stakeholders together, from their own disciplines and professional orientations.

CONCEPTUAL MODELING COURSE FOR CULTURAL HERITAGE 2013

Information management in Cultural Heritage requires that, sometimes, people without computer skills have to design data structures, chips and other systems of information management. This course aims to introduce these people to conceptual modeling and prepare them to perform tasks such as:

 Decide what types should be documented

 Determine how to describe each kind

 Specify how things relate to each other

This year, and hopefully in 2014 and 2015, there will be an ERASMUS Intensive Programme under the title HERICT: ICT at the Service of Cultural Heritage. The aim of this project is to enhance the ICT knowledge of cultural heritage experts, in particular archaeology, architecture and geomatics students. The practical training will take place in the site of Kymisala (SW Rhodes). Among the learning outcomes:

The Cultural Heritage covers many aspects and its analysis can be approached from many different points of view, one of which is the study of the materials that have been used on cultural goods.

These materials can be included in the term of geomaterials, defined as those geological materials that following a process are used in various industries, specifically in the configuration and conservation of Cultural Heritage .

ABSOLUTE DATING TECHNIQUES: APPLICATION ON CULTURAL HERITAGE

The course's main objective is to show the most important techniques about absolute dating, such as dendrochronology, radiocarbon, lichenometry, luminescence, cosmogenic, archaeomagnetism, amino acid racemization, radiometric uranium series, etc.

The Geomateriales Programme(CSIC-UCM) presents its 2012 edition of the CSIC posgraduate course: The conservation of the geomaterials used on Heritage.

 After the success of the first edition of the course "The preservation of the Geomaterials used on Cultural Heritage" held in 2011, now an informational dossier is published containing the resultant most relevant information.  

That course was organized by the Geosciences Institute IGEO-CSIC and the Geomaterials Programme, with the collaboration of CSIC and the Universities of Alcalá de Henares and Complutense de Madrid. 

You can download the dossier here.

In the framework of the FP7 Marie Curie–People IAPP project “Radiography of the Past”, a series of High Formation Summer Schools are being conducted during the years 2010 to 2012. The 3rd Specialization Forum will take place from July 2 to 7, 2012, in Hainburg (Austria), near Carnuntum, a different location that is appropriate for its focus on data interpretation and virtual reconstruction.

The enrolment process has begun for the second edition of the CSIC official postgraduate course with the name Modelado Conceptual para Patrimonio Cultural ("Conceptual modelling of cultural heritage"), offered in Spanish. This course is directed by César González Pérez, member of the CSD-TCP program, and organized by the INCIPIT (CSIC).