The Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (NCU), www.umk.pl/en,  is the largest university in northern Poland, comprising 17 faculties covering disciplines from science to humanities and medicine. NCU employs over 4300 people including 2221 scholars (1000 with Ph.D.), 242 of whom hold a professorial title. At present, 30,000 students are being educated in over 80 disciplines, 100 specializations, over 130 courses and post-graduate studies and 22 doctoral studies. E-RIHS PP will be managed jointly by the Institute of Physics and Institute for the Study, Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage.
The Institute of Physics is a part of the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy, and Informatics. The Institute consists of 9 research departments and employs 148 people, including 94 research and teaching faculty members. It offers degree programmes in the fields of physics, technical physics, informatics, and robotics. The E-RIHS PP project will be developed in the Laboratory for Non-invasive Analyses within the Interdisciplinary Centre for Modern Technologies (ICNT), a joint project initiative of four faculties of the University. The Institute for the Study, Restoration, and Conservation of Cultural Heritage is a part of the Faculty of Fine Arts. The Institute consists of 10 research departments and employs 98 people, including 76 research and teaching faculty members. For over ten years the physicists now involved in the Laboratory for Non-invasive Analyses have been closely cooperating with the conservators from the Institute for the Study, Restoration and Conservation of Cultural Heritage on developing new techniques for examination of CH objects. This collaboration is mostly devoted to searching for solutions to practical problems formulated by conservators and related to the state of preservation, former restoration/conservation attempts, attribution and dating of the artwork, and new restoration procedures and materials.
The NCU is the leader of the Polish node E-RIHS.pl (www.e-rihs.pl), which comprises 13 Polish research institutions leaders in this field.