New doctoral program: New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA)

New doctoral program

"New Approaches in the Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA)"

15 PhD vacancies within the Marie Curie Innovative Training Network
project.  Coordinated by Maastricht University

A significant part of European cultural heritage, modern and
contemporary art, runs a great risk of getting lost for future
generations, because it is particularly difficult to preserve.
Proper care requires resolving fundamental questions concerning the
identity, values and authenticity of modern and contemporary
artworks and the consequences for their conservation, rethinking
historically grown professional distinctions as those between the
curator and the conservator, re-organizing the institutional
ecosystem, and establishing frameworks for international,
interdisciplinary and intersectoral research and training
collaboration.

The research and training programme New Approaches in the
Conservation of Contemporary Art (NACCA) aims at meeting these
demands by educating a new generation of professional curators,
conservators and academic researchers who are properly equipped to
face these challenges.  The programme is designed by experts working
in museums, heritage organisations and universities that have a
profound experience in the field of contemporary art conservation
and conservation research.  It consists of a research and a training
part, which are closely connected and mutually inform each other.
It will focus on the development of a reflective professional
attitude, which is a pre-requisite in the increasingly complex and
collaborative field of contemporary art conservation.

The NACCA programme, coordinated by Maastricht University, is a
Marie Curie Innovative Training Network project, funded by the
European Union.  In total, 15 PhD projects are part of the
programme, each investigating different, as yet under-explored
aspects of contemporary art conservation.

In the framework of the Marie Curie ITN project NACCA, the
beneficiaries of this project are recruiting a total of 15 PhD
researchers.  Researchers will be located in The Netherlands
(Maastricht University, University of Amsterdam), Germany (Cologne
University of Applied Sciences), United Kingdom (University of
Glasgow, Tate), Italy (Museo delle Culture Milan, University of Roma
III), Portugal (NOVA University Lisbon, University of Porto) and
Poland (Faculty of Conservation, Academy of Fine Arts Warsaw).  For
more information about the PhD projects, the vacancies and
recruitment procedure, please visit

    <URL:http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/nacca>

Apply before: 15 September 2015


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