The city of Timișoara is preparing to become the European Capital of Culture in 2023. The West University of Timișoara is a determining factor in the proactive socio-economic modeling of the city and a strategic pillar in the development of the Western Region of Romania. Through the recent performance indicators, UVT is also emerging as a European vector for promoting professionalism in education, research and innovation, and advanced scientific knowledge is becoming the pretext for the re-solidarity of the entire community of researchers and entrepreneurs in the spirit of interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity put at the service of the valorization of culture.
The results and principles that coalesce the professionals around UVT are reflected in the cultural values of the region, correlating the idea of responsibility with the spirit of initiative doubled by competence, certified experience and multidisciplinary dialogue. These aspirations determined the fact that UVT is a member of the national university consortium and here, from 2020, a member of the European university alliance UNITA, which includes 6 prestigious universities from France, Italy, Portugal, Romania and Spain.
UVT's long-term mission within UNITA envisages student-centered education, inter-institutional cooperation in the service of renewable energies, circular economy and cultural heritage. UVT supports and encourages through its infrastructure and strategy the initiative of a solid inter-institutional networking within the Western Region of Romania, functioning as a link between the administrative institutions of the Western Region, the representatives of the Ministry of Culture in the territory, the university and autonomous research centers, the 40 museums in the region, the public ecclesiastical collections in Banat belonging to the Metropolis of Banat, the Serbian Orthodox Vicariate, the Roman- and Greek-Catholic dioceses, private collections and regional cultural entrepreneurs.
The Faculty of Arts from Timișoara, as part of the UVT, promotes, supports and encourages initiatives regarding the safeguarding of movable and immovable national cultural heritage, through the Regional Center for Research and Expertise in Restoration and Conservation (CR-CERC).
CR-CERC aims to be a vector of cohesion between the research departments of institutions with a profile of research, conservation and restoration of movable and immovable material cultural heritage, promoting innovation, new technologies, sustainability and updated professional training for specialists in the Western Region of Romania, with a view to analysis, diagnosis and operational efficiency regarding the valorization and preservation of heritage.
The multispectral analysis of artifacts aims at a fertile, multidisciplinary terrain, an area of interference between several fields of conservation, documentation and authentication of heritage through non-invasive methods. The Xpectraltek workshop on new multispectral imaging technologies is the first of its kind in Romania and is at first sight a topic of interest for at least 220 specialists from the most important cultural institutions in Romania, from universities, museums, regional administrative units and local, collections from the ecclesiastical environment and entrepreneurs from the private environment. This reality actually encourages us as a university to invest resources in the continuous training of professionals and to develop for the first time investments in a technological infrastructure that will strategically serve the beneficiary institutions in the region and ensure a reliable platform for research and professionalism applied to the needs heritage.
The Multispectral Analysis of Paintings Workshop gathered on the Facebook page of CR-CERC a number of 12000 views without additional paid advertising, over 1000 interactions with the event page and 120 professionals, strictly on the Zoom platform, who actively participated in the presentation of March 23.
Univ. Lecturer Dr. Filip Petcu