Czech Science Foundation

Standard projects

2025 - 2027 (3 years): New methods for glass phase determination and their application for the effective property prediction of silicate ceramics and refractories (25-16482S)

2025 - 2027 (3 years): Opportunities for increasing low early strength of eco-friendly blended cements through innovative additives and nanomaterials (25-15200S)

2022-2024 (3 years): Impact of Thriving Mid-European Mining Regions on Painting Pigments and Technologies at the Outset of Modern Age (22-17966S)

2017 - 2019 (3 years): Provenance analysis of Italian fine art by advanced approaches of geosciences and archaeometry (17-25687S)

2017 - 2019 (3 years): Formation of metal soaps in paintings as a cause of their degradation (17-15621S)

2014 - 2016 (3 years) Microanalysis of clay minerals in the fine art as a part of provenance studies (14-22984S)

2012 - 2014 (3 years) Methods for multimodal image processing based on mathematical models of optical properties of paint material for artwork analysis (P103/12/2211)

2007 - 2009 (3 years) Novel non-invasive and microanalytical methods for study of medieval paintings, origin of pigments and their chemical degradation (GA 203/07/1324)

2004 - 2006 (3 years) Material and micro-structural features in the dating and technological evaluation of the Mid-European painting (GA 203/04/2091)

Junior projects

2004 - 2006 (3 years) Application of X-ray microdiffraction to mineralogical analyses of works of art (KJB1032401)

2006 - 2008 (3 years) Wall Painting Damage by Salts: Causes and Mechanisms (KJB400320602)

 

Ministry of culture of the Czech Republic

Applied research and development of national and cultural identity (NAKI) - NAKI II (2016 – 2022)

2018 - 2022 (5 years): Non-invasive research of portrait miniatures for the purpose of their dating, authentication, presentation and protection (DG18P020VV034)

State Fund of Culture of the Czech Republic

2017 - 2018 (1 year): Edition of the Proceedings of the 6th ALMA Interdisciplinary Conference focusing on research, technology, history and restoration of the fine arts – Acta Artis Academica 2017 (315 2017)

Applied research and development of national and cultural identity (NAKI) (2011 – 2017)

2012 - 2015 (4 years) New portable instruments, laboratory and methodology for the non-destructive materials analysis of the fine art in the frame of cultural heritage protection (DF12P01OVV048)

 

Ministry of education, youth and sports of the Czech Republic

Centralised project 2013 (1 year) Strengthening of interdisciplinary education of restoration, art history and science students in the field of cultural heritage protection (international conference and publication and students workshops) C 25

Centralised project 2012 (1 year) Strengthening of interdisciplinary education of restoration, art history and science students in the field of cultural heritage protection (international conference and publication) C 76

 

Czech Academy of Sciences

2025 - 2029 (5 years): The power of objects: Materiality between past and future

2022 - 2026 (5 years): Breakthrough Technologies for the Future - Sensing, Digitisation, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technologies

2020 - 2024 (5 years): City as a Laboratory of Change; Historical Heritage and Place for Safe and Quality Life

2015 - 2021 (7 years): Diagnostic Methods and Techniques

International Cooperation Projects

2009 - 2011 (3 years) Phase and structural X-ray analysis and microanalysis of traditional art pigments used in Mid-European painting (M200320901)

(The project was carried out in cooperation with the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.)

Materials research and expertise
RNDr. Janka Hradilová

(+420) 311 236 965, (+420) 737 960 737, hradilova@iic.cas.cz
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
ALMA Laboratory, Husinec-Řež č.p. 1001, Husinec-Řež, 25068, Czech Republic
Research and developement
Dr. David Hradil

(+420) 311 236 930, (+420) 723 031 289, hradil@iic.cas.cz
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences,
ALMA Laboratory, Husinec-Řež č.p. 1001, Husinec-Řež, 25068, Czech Republic
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