Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Research Projects

SettleinEastCrete

Spatial Dynamics and Settlement Patterns in Eastern Crete from the Classical to the Venetian Period

This project attempts to highlight the developments of the settlement patterns in Eastern Crete from the Classical to the Venetian period. The main goal is to enlighten the transition from the ancient autonomous city-states to the medieval cities and villages. This work aims to a better understanding of the economic, social, political and also environmental issues that influenced that evolution.

Concentrating on the eastern part of Crete, it is the occasion to see how, on a same territory but on a long chronological period, through very different administrative systems, population has organized itself, balancing between a centralized and a disseminated mode of settlement.

BalkanROAD

Ευρωπαϊκη Εδαφικη Συνεργασια Balkan-Mediterranean

Ευρωπαϊκη Εδαφικη Συνεργασια Balkan-Mediterranean 2014-2020

OXA

Oros Oxa Archaeological Survey

The surface survey at Mount Oxa started in 2017 under the auspices of the Byzantine and post-Byzantine Department of the Ministry of Culture and Sport (protocol number: ΥΠΠΟΑ/ΓΔΑΠΚ/ΔΒΜΑ/ΤΕΕΑΕΙ/ 357358/233390/6024/541). This deliberation granted the permission to the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lassithi to begin a new surface survey on Mount Oxa in collaboration with the Laboratory of Geophysical Satellite Remote Sensing and ArchaeoEnvironment at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (FORTH), in a program articulated in three years  (2017-2019).

POLITEIA II

POLItismos-TEchnologIA: New Technologies in the Research, Study, Documentation and Access to the Information for Cultural Heritage Objects and Monuments II

The POLITEIA II (POLItismos-TEchnologIA: New Technologies in the Research, Study, Documentation and Access to the Information for Cultural Heritage Objects and Monuments II) (MIS 5002478) research project, Action KRIPIS, is implemented under the "Action for the Strategic Development on the Research and Technological Sector" of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Greece and the European Regional Development Fund.

MedSTACH

Eastern Mediterranean Science and Technology Centre for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage - MedSTACH

Project MedSTACH aims to establish Cyprus as an excellence hub in archaeology and cultural heritage in the Eastern Mediterranean region, capitalising on multidisciplinary research and technological innovation. To this end, key Cypriot public academic institutions and national policy makers and stakeholders are teaming up with leading international research and academic institutions to lay the groundwork towards creating the Eastern Mediterranean Science and Technology Centre for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage (acronym MedSTACH).

STORM

Safeguarding Cultural Heritage, Technical and Organisational, Resources Management

STORM plans to introduce an integrated framework and a platform providing tools and services both on macro level to give a global view of the entire value chain and on specific level to promote the improvement of specific processes for protection and danger prevention.

BAKOTA

The Bronze Age Körös Off-Tell Archaeology (BAKOTA) project

The Bronze Age Körös Off-Tell Archaeology (BAKOTA) project is studying a cemetery population (Békés Jégvermi-kert) in Eastern Hungary during the Bronze Age, and aims to understand how this region differs from neighbouring areas. Our primary area of interest is to understand how travel and participation in trade networks affected sociocultural change and the emergence of social inequality in later European prehistory (2000-1500 BC).

ISAP Research Fund 2015

Reconstructing the Cultural Dynamics in Shallow Marine Environment through Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Photogrammetry

Reconstructing the Cultural Dynamics in Shallow Marine Environment through Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Photogrammetry

Ancient City

Ancient City - Application of Innovative Geoinformatics Technologies for the Study of Urbanization in Ancient Greece

The project seeks new horizons in the study of ancient Greek urbanism by integrating satellite and aerial remote sensing, geophysical prospection, and spatial analyses in Geographical Information Systems for understanding and reconstructing the complex history and development of the ancient Greek city.

PEFYKA

Environment and Natural Disasters: New methods to evaluate and improve the environmental quality and encounter the natural hazards

Environment and Natural Disasters: New methods to evaluate and improve the environmental quality and encounter the natural hazards

POLITEIA

POLItismos-TEchnologIA: New Technologies in the Research, Study, Documentation and Access to the Information for Cultural Heritage Objects and Monuments

Project No MIS-448300 (2013SE01380035) is funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Ministry of Education, Greece and the European Regional Development Fund (Sectoral Operational Programme : Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship, NSRF 2007-2013)/ European Commission. The project constitutes a National Development Action (Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship, NSRF 2007-2013).

Fulbright Research Grant

Fulbright Research Grant

The aim of this project is twofold and is divided into a research and a lecturing module regarding traditional geophysical prospection methods and electrical resistivity tomography in archaeological research (theory and applications)

AgroStrat

Sustainable strategies for the improvement of seriously degraded agricultural areas: The example of Pistachia vera L. - AgroStrat

Sustainable strategies for the improvement of seriously degraded agricultural areas: The example of Pistachia vera L.
LIFE11 ENV/GR/000951