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Cyprus Acquires STARLab

sTARLabA Memorandum of Cooperation between Cyprus Institute and the Center for Research and Restoration of Museums of France was signed, according to which Cyprus acquainted STARLab, a Mobile Research Laboratory for Archaeology. This is about a research infrastructure, unique in Cyprus and the wider area.
STARLab is a mobile Lab with facilities for digital data acquisition, geophysics, data processing and archaeometry, for research, documentation, conservation and preservation of cultural heritage.
It consists of 4-wheel drive truck with a specially fitted cabin on the chassis, capable of hosting two researchers and their necessary equipment for performing the research and remotely communicates with the field units and the “home Laboratory”, as reported in Cyprus Institute’s website.
It is a self-sufficient unit and most of the analyses will be carried on directly on site, enabling a number of analyses presently not performed or performed only in special cases for logistic difficulties that it will completely solve.
The facilities will be particularly useful for the archaeological field work, preventive archaeology and data collection and processing in remote areas, as well as work on immovable museum artifacts.
The Lab will be managed by a highly specialized research team with complementary skills, manned by two technicians for current operations and maintenance, according to the website.
The Project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Research Promotion Foundation.
The Memorandum of Cooperation between Cyprus Institute and the French Center for Research and Restoration of Museums formalizes the current close collaboration between the two bodies. It provides for the promotion of joint programs, recording and conservation of cultural heritage, exchange of students, academic personnel and researchers, as well as joint organization of events.
 

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