The Laser Laboratory for Heritage Science (IQF-CSIC) will be an access provider of the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS), which recently became an ERIC

The European Commission recently announced the establishment of the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS) as a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) dedicated to Heritage Science. E-RIHS is configured as a distributed infrastructure, with a Central Hub based in Florence (Italy) and different national nodes hosted in the member states. The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), an organization attached to the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, leads the Spanish node (E-RIHS.es). E-RIHS aims to support and facilitate interdisciplinary research on heritage interpretation, documentation, preservation, and management, though the access to cutting-edge laboratories, tools, and data. Under an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, E-RIHS ERIC will respond to the specific needs of cultural and natural heritage assets. Its mission is to provide access to the expertise knowledge of scientists and technicians, data, and technologies for the study of heritage, thus helping to improve its understanding and future conservation. Spain, through the Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities and the Ministry of Culture, participates as a full member in the E-RIHS ERIC. The leadership of the CSIC in the Spanish Node of E-RIHS is the result of nearly three decades of interdisciplinary collaboration in this field. Since 2019, this activity has been articulated through the Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform "Open Heritage: Research and Society" (PTI-PAIS), which integrates research groups from different CSIC institutes. One of them is the Laser Laboratory for Heritage Science (LLHS) of the Blas Cabrera Institute of Physical Chemistry (IQF-CSIC). It will offer access to laser techniques applied to the study of cultural heritage, such as laser cleaning, Laser-Induced Breakdown (LIBS) and Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Spectroscopies, and Nonlinear Optical Microscopy (NLOM). More information: https://www.e-rihs.eu/e-rihs-becomes-a-european-research-infrastructure-consortium-eric/