The proposal consists in organising a European conference on heritage science entitled 'Heritage for the future / Science for heritage, a European adventure for research and innovation'. It is organised by the Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine (FSP), in partnership with the French Ministry of Culture and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) as part of the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union that will take place during the first semester of 2022. The Conference aims to bring heritage science to the forefront to highlight its diversity and gain recognition of its central role to address major contemporary challenges at national and European level, as well as its articulation with the main European initiatives. In line with this mission, the Conference will illustrate how cultural heritage research can concretely support a more inclusive, innovative, and sustainable Europe (i). It also aims to increase the visibility and promote the efficiency of the various disciplines and ecosystems involved in better identification, understanding, preservation, restoration, and transmission of cultural heritage, may it be tangible, intangible, digital or natural (ii). Finally, it will identify challenges and discuss prospects for heritage science in the face of current societal changes (iii). These objectives will be achieved through an ambitious conference programme and various presentation and discussion formats bringing together different stakeholders involved in the production, valorisation, dissemination, and implementation of heritage science knowledge. The conference will also produce a wide range of outputs that will contribute to spread the content and key messages of the discussions towards a wide European and international audience.

The SoCoRe! project (Open science for Conservation / Restoration of the cultural heritage) aims at structuring and opening data produced by the activities of conservation / restoration of the tangible cultural heritage. Supported by the Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine, which gathers a very large scientific community in this field, the SoCoRe! project continues the effort, led by the foundation, of designing common models, vocabularies, platforms and tools for sharing conservation / restoration data. The goal of the SoCoRe! project is to build the tools for producing data that respects the common models, for storing, sharing and querying data produced by the community, and to specify the good practices and the procedures for implementing this approach for an open science.