The ISAAC Research Centre and Mobile Lab was part of the European research Infrastructure project Integrating Platforms for the European Research Infrastructure on Heritage Science (IPERION HS), a consortium with partners from 23 countries with a mission to build a unique and accessible research infrastructure for heritage science, connecting the communities from the Arts and Humanities with Sciences and Engineering. The IPERION HS project ended on 31 March 2024. 

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Having been engaged in the preparatory phase for the European Research Infrastructure for Heritage Science (E-RIHS), which was put on the European Roadmap in 2016, and the subsequent IPERION HS, we are now offering mobile lab access on the E-RIHS platform. We are currently the only UK Mobile Lab providing access within E-RIHS. The European-wide project has different platforms supporting the new research infrastructure, which include mobile laboratories (MOLAB), fixed laboratories (FIXLAB), digital (DIGILAB) and archival (ARCHLAB) facilities.

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We are also providing access to our instruments through the UK’s Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS), which launched in October 2024, providing both Mobile Lab services in the UK and "FIXLAB" services for analysis at our lab at NTU. 

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ISAAC contributes to E-RIHS and RICHeS in the following ways:

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• ISAAC instruments and expertise are available for UK institutions to access via the RICHeS Heritage Science Data Service (HSDS) Catalogue of Services;

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• ISAAC instruments, data science tools and expertise accessible through E-RIHS for both European and UK institutions;

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• ​The ISAAC mobile lab is accessible to international organisations through the E-RIHS pan-European transnational program;​​

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For details of how to apply for access, either directly or through RICHeS or E-RIHS, please see our Mobile Lab page.