ARCHE codirector C. Tokarski received the honor to co-chair with Prof Marino, Accademia dei Lincei, University of Naples Federico II and Suor Orsola Benincasa University, the session on ‘Biochemical strategies for cultural heritage’ as a part of 48th European FEBS congress – The Federation of European Biochemical Societies congress, one of the largest bio-congresses in Europe. The session has included conferences of international leaders in the filed such as Prof Matthew Collins and Prof Leila Birolo and also young researchers, pointing out the current achievements in our field and the next challenges.