IPERION CHIntegrated Platform for the European Research Infrastructure ON Cultural Heritage

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – National Scientific Research Centre (CNRS)

http://www.cnrs.fr

The Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research), founded in 1939, is a public organization under the responsibility of the French Ministry of Education and Research. As the largest fundamental research organization in Europe, CNRS carried out research in all fields of knowledge: mathematics, physics, information sciences and technologies, nuclear and particle physics, earth sciences and astronomy, chemistry, biological sciences, humanities and social sciences, ecology and environment, engineering and systems sciences.

CNRS encourages collaboration between specialists from different disciplines, thus opening up new fields of enquiry to meet social and economic needs. CNRS has developed interdisciplinary programs which bring together various CNRS departments, as well as, other research institutions and industry. CNRS laboratories (or research units) are located throughout France, and employ a large body of tenured researchers, engineers, and support staff. CNRS’s annual budget represents a quarter of French public spending on civilian research. CNRS is a key participant in European research with 1 557 projects funded in FP7, making it the largest recipient of FP7 funding.

CNRS is taking part in IPERION CH through three research units:

NEW AGLAE (FR 3506), a research unit which includes personnel from the C2RMF‐Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France, an institution of the French Ministry for Culture devoted to the analysis and conservation of the cultural heritage of the French Museums [http://www.c2rmf.fr/]

CRC ‐ Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation (USR 3224) [crc.mnhn.fr], a research unit devoted to the conservation of cultural heritage composed of 3 teams: CRCC‐Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des Collections, at the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris, LRMH‐Laboratoire de Recherche des Monuments Historiques, hosted at the Chateau of Champs‐sur‐Marne and the research and conservation team of the Musée de la Musique, at the Cité de la Musique in Paris

IPANEMA ‐ Institut Photonique d’Analyse Non‐destructive Européen des Matériaux Anciens (USR 3461) [http://ipanema.cnrs.fr.], the European research platform on ancient materials located on the SOLEIL synchrotron site, south of Paris.

Contact Person
Michel Menu

E-Mail Address
michel.menu@culture.gouv.fr