Cultural Heritage around the globe suffers from wars, natural disasters, and human negligence. More specifically, Cultural Goods (CGs) and artefacts are put at risk through several anthropogenic actions: Anthropogenic threats take various dimensions (such as theft from museums, private collections, and religious buildings, smuggling and illicit trade, the irremediable looting and demolition of archaeological sites by clandestine excavators, or simply neglecting of heritage sites). Illicit trading has expanded dramatically recently, especially in areas affected by armed conflicts and natural disasters, either aiming at destroying collective memory and dismembering people’s identity or mostly motivated by the pursuit of profit.
ENIGMA shall achieve excellence in the protection of Cultural Goods and artefacts from man-made threats by contributing to the identification, traceability, and provenance research of Cultural Goods as well as by safeguarding and monitoring of endangered heritage sites.
ENIGMA objectives are designed to help the involved stakeholders better respond to this complex, and multi-dimensional problem, and leverage active collaboration by fostering and enabling the interlinking of databases, and evidence-based deployment of preventative measures. ENIGMA will use potentially innovative technologies that have not yet been used or not widely exploited until now, in order to achieve its goals.
The ENIGMA consortium has wide geographical coverage with 12 consortium members, representing 6 EU member states plus one EFTA country (Switzerland). It represents a wide range of disciplines, experience, and expertise which are all necessary to reach the key objectives of this project. It consists of end users (such as the Hellenic Police), research centres, universities, centre of excellence, National Agencies for museums and industry that together will combine expertise and enable a multidisciplinary approach to effectively completing the outcomes of the project.
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