GREen ENdeavor in Art ResToration

欧洲文化遗产（CH）是一种重要的资源，必须得到维护，保护和利用，以应对不利的环境条件和气候变化所加剧的退化。保护方法缺乏持久性、可持续性和成本效益，通常基于耗能过程或非环境友好型材料。为了解决这些问题，GREENART提出了基于绿色和可持续材料和方法的新解决方案，以保存，保护和恢复CH：1）基于废物和植物蛋白质的绿色材料的保护涂层，具有自我修复和可逆性特征，可能用有机/无机纳米颗粒功能化以赋予VOC捕获，防腐和屏障行为。2)由可再生资源（聚氨酯和天然纤维）的可生物降解/可堆肥聚合物制成的泡沫和包装材料，以控制T/RH。3)基于可再生资源的天然聚合物的加固剂，用于机械加固脆弱的文物。4)凝胶和清洁液的灵感来自目前最先进的系统，以保护，改善他们根据绿色和循环经济。5)绿色技术解决方案，用于非侵入性地监测CH资产，防止污染物和环境振荡。生命周期评估和建模将有利于“安全设计”，创造对工匠、操作员和环境安全的经济实惠的解决方案，并最大限度地减少监测博物馆环境的能耗。GREENART通过多学科合作伙伴关系授予这种整体方法，该合作伙伴关系聚集了硬科学和软科学和工程，包括学术中心，创新行业和中小企业，保护机构和专业人士，博物馆，其收藏品拥有需要保护的绝对杰作，公共实体和政策制定者。后者将支持培训和传播活动，使利益攸关方熟悉新方法。

European Cultural Heritage (CH) is a crucial resource that must be maintained, preserved and accessible, to counteract degradation enhanced by unfavorable environmental conditions and climate changes. Conservation methodologies lack durability, sustainability and cost-effectiveness, and are typically based on energy-consuming processes or non-environmentally friendly materials. Coping with these issues, GREENART proposes new solutions based on green and sustainable materials and methods, to preserve, conserve and restore CH: 1) Protective coatings based on green materials from waste and plant proteins, with self-healing and reversibility character, possibly functionalized with organic/inorganic nanoparticles to impart VOC capture, anti-corrosion and barrier behaviors. 2) Foams and packaging materials made by biodegradable/compostable polymers from renewable sources (polyurethanes and natural fibers) to control T/RH. 3) Consolidants based on natural polymers from renewable sources, to mechanically strengthen weak artifacts. 4) Gels and cleaning fluids inspired by the most advanced systems currently available to conservators, improving them according to green and circular economy. 5) Green tech solutionsfor monitoring CH assets non-invasively against pollutants and environmental oscillations. Life cycle Assessment and modeling will favor the “safe-by-design” creation of affordable solutions safe to craftspeople, operators and the environment, and minimize energy-consumption in monitoring museum environments. Such holistic approach is granted in GREENART by a multidisciplinary partnership that gathers hard and soft sciences and engineering, including academic centers, innovative industries and SMEs, conservation institutions and professionals, museums whose collections hold absolute masterpieces in need of conservation, public entities and policy makers. The latter will favour training and dissemination activities to make stakeholders familiar with the new methods.