Recent Funded Projects:
Portuguese cultural heritage digitalization (Resilience Program RE-C04-i01)
International:
CAPHE – Communities and Arts Framework in Hybrid Environments (HORIZON- MSCA-RISE-2021 – ID 101086391)
CRAFT -Activating Pedagogy for Ceramic Education Future (Erasmus+ Key Action 203, 2020-1-UK01-KA203-079249)
CRAFTHUB (Creative Europe, EACEA 32/2019)
T-Factor (Horizon 2020, ID 868887)
ArcTic South (EEA Grant PT-BR-0122)
COST Action “IS-LE – Islamic Legacy: Narratives East, West, South, North of the Mediterranean (1350-1750)” (CA 18129).
ARTECHNE – Technique in the Arts, 1500-1950 (ERC Grant 648718).
National:
HERIT-AGES. ‘Idades´ do Plástico e do Vidro para quem? Exploração de novas avenidas para a valorização e preservação do património para o futuro (2022-2023). (EXPL/ART-OUT/0146/2021)
Magica | Magic Lantern – Study, Safeguard, Uses and Reuses in 19th-Century Portugal. (PTDC/ART-PER/1702/2021)
ChromAZ – The Chromatic Journey of the Portuguese Azulejo (PTDC/HAR-HIS/1899/2020)
PUc-LED – Phosphor-Up-converted white LEDs assisted by 1-D photonic crystals (PTDC/CTM-CTM/0757/2021)
Photo Impulse – The Photographic Impulse: Measuring the Colonies and the Colonial Bodies (PTDC/COM-OUT/29608/2017)
CleanART – Innovative green methodology to clean fungal stains from paper documents and artworks (PTDC/EPH-PAT/0224/2014)
InLumGlass – From inexpensive raw materials to new luminescent glass materials (PTDC/QEQ-QIN/3007/2014).
Individual projects:
BLEU-DECOR | BLue Enamels – Understanding Deterioration & Enabling COnservation through Recipes and ancient technologies (ongoing, CEECIND/07167/2023)
Characterisation and conservation of historical paintings on glass and stained-glass windows (2023.05135.RESTART)
GALENE- Glass, alchemy, and medicine. Evidence of domestic practices in the capital of the Andalusi Caliphate (European Commission Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – 101107411)
CO-GLASS – COlouring the GLASS: Characterization and conservation of historical paintings on glasses and stained-glass windows (ongoing, CEECIND/02249/2021)
LumiGLAD – Sustainable Luminescent Glasses for Art and Design (2020.00252.CEECIND)
White Glazes: the foundations of the Portuguese faience technology (CEECIND/00882/2017)
VICARTE collaborate in several other national and international projects as PIPA Project – O Convento de S. Domingos de Lisboa: reflexos da transformação de uma sociedade de época moderna (The Convent of S. Domingos de Lisboa: reflections of the transformation of a modern society) | CSD-LX.2021-2025 and PASS the Mic (Creative Europe 616950-2020). After a peer review by outstanding academic artists, we were also involved in the “Anywhere project, created by the Centre of Visual Arts, University of Melbourne, and the Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology. In 2023 VICARTE welcomed a post-doc scholar with a European Commission MSCA 2-year contract with the project “GALENE- Glass, alchemy, and medicine. Evidence of domestic practices in the capital of the Andalusi Caliphate”. Finally, VICARTE’s active participation in multiple international consortia for European project submissions includes recent calls in HORIZON, ERC, Creative Europe, and Pathfinder.
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