Research Projects
COASTLINE
Coastal Zone Environment and Geo-Sciences
2024-2027
COASTLINE-Project: 101130576
Coastal Zone Environment and Geo-Sciences
MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01)
Duration: 01/01/2024-31/12/2027
TOPIO
Towards Democratic Landscape observation through Geoinformatics and Public Participation
2023-2027
Coordination: IMS/FORTH, Dr. Dimitrios Alexakis
Duration: 01/12/2023 - 30/11/2027
Total budget: 915.000 Euro
Onassis Business History
Onassis Business History
2017-2024
The purpose of the research project is to create a private Onassis Business Archive as well as publish a volume on Onassis Business History, based on the Onassis Archive material.
BLACK SEA
History of the Black Sea, 18th-20th centuries
2012
The aim of the project was the identification, analysis and synthesis of the economic and social develοpment of 20 port-cities of the Black Sea that formed an integrated market that became the larger grain-exporting area in the world in the second half of the nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth century.
STASH
Shadow Trade: Unraveling Maritime Smuggling Between the Russian and Ottoman Empires (1853-1914)
2024-2029
Principal Investigator: Anna (Ganna) Sydorenko
Funding body: European Research Council (Starting Grant 2024, Project ID 101166144)
Start date: 1 December 2024, End date: 30 November 2029
Total Budget: € 1,490,250
Host Institution: IMS-FORTH
MCH-EsMed
How the middle class housed itself in the Eastern Mediterranean
2024-2029
Principal Investigator: Konstantina Kalfa
Funded by: European Research Council - Starting Grant 2024 (Grant Agreement 101164009)
Start date: 1 December 2024, End date: 30 November 2029
Overall budget: € 1,499,913
Hosted by: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
MACAUTH
Screening Souls, Building Nations. Macedonia(s) as a Laboratory for Balkan-wide Authoritarianism
2023-2028
Principal Investigator: Dr. Tasos Kostopoulos
Funded by: European Research Council - Starting Grant 2022 (Grant Agreement 101077076)
Start date: 1 March 2023, End date: 29 February 2028
Overall budget: € 1,467,800
Hosted by: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
PhylProGramm
Phylogenies probing Grammar. Exploring morphosyntax at different scales of language change
2023-2028
Principal Investigator: Elena Anagnostopoulou
Funding Body: European Research Council (Advanced Grant 2022, Grant Agreement 101096554)
Starting Date: 1 October 2023, End Date: 30 September 2028
Total Budget: € 2,499,925
Host Institution: IMS-FORTΗ
SLaVEgents
Enslaved persons in the making of societies and cultures in Western Eurasia and North Africa, 1000 BCE - 300 CE
2023-2028
Principal Investigator: Kostas Vlassopoulos
Funding Body: European Research Council (Advanced Grant 2022, Grant Agreement 101095823)
Starting Date: 1 July 2023, End Date: 30 June 2028
Total Budget: € 2,495,575
Host Institution: IMS-FORTΗ
MigraMedia
Migration Narratives in European Media: Teaching, Learning, and Reflecting
2023-2026
Project Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Markus Heide, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute/institut-fuer-englische-sprache-und-literatur/team/markus-heide/
IMS Coordinator
Panayiota Mini, Institute for Mediterranean Studies & University of Crete
MARINE FRESHWATER DISCHARGES
Preliminary investigation of marine freshwater discharges on Island of Crete (Greece) as a potential source of fresh water supply and energy.
2022-2025
Goal: Identify potential sources of the freshwater in coastal zone of Crete.
Objective: Measure and record conductivity (salinity) changes in selected monitoring locations over four years.
ERRIKOS THALASSINOS
ERRIKOS THALASSINOS
2022-2023
The aim of this project is to preserve, document and showcase, through a series of actions, the work of Errikos Thalassinos (1927-2000), the prolific filmmaker, screenwriter, and writer from Herakleion, Crete. With the permission of Errikos Thalassinos’ family, the project’s team has completed the digitalization and documentation of the holdings of his personal archive (Responsible: Grigoris Voskakis).
ClepsYdra
Translating Submerged and Buried Cultural Heritage from Shallow Water to Digital environment with Geoinformatics
2022
Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I) under the framework of the 2nd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty Members and Researchers
Coordinator & Principal Investigator
Athens Alexandria
Between Athens & Alexandria
2022-2024
Principal Investigator: Irini-Fotini Viltanioti
Start date: 1 January 2022, End date: 31 December 2024
Hosted by: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
Olimed
At the Crossroads of History, Industry, and Technology: Olive Oil Production in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Late Nineteenth Century
2022-2024
The last twenty years have witnessed an increase in the production of olive oil The last twenty years have witnessed an increase in the production of olive oil in the Mediterranean as a consequence of the campaigns of the International Olive Oil Council. The proposed research aims at bringing forth an original contribution to this dynamic field by adopting a comparative perspective that concentrates on the history of olive oil production in several most important olive and olive oil producing regions of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Shipping and trade in Venetian Crete
Shipping and trade in Venetian Crete; The case study of Curcumeli’s company (16th century)
2022-2023
Funded by: Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies/ Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs
Host Institution: IMS/FORTH
LACRIMALit
Leaders and Crisis Management in Ancient Greek Literature
2022-2025
Principal Investigator: Melina Tamiolaki, Dept. of Philology UoC
Host Institution: IMS/FORTH
Collaborating Institution: University of Crete
Greek Cinema-Film Adaptation. Theory and Practice
Greek Cinema-Film Adaptation. Theory and Practice
2022
Under the auspices and funding of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports
Organization: Institute for Mediterranean Studies, FORTH.
Collaborating Organizations
Union of Philologists of Heraklion Prefecture
Camera On: Cultural School Network of Secondary Education of Heraklion
With the support of the Social Space of the A. & M. Kalokairinos Foundation
HistOIL
Oil, but Not Olive Oil: How Petroleum Products Became Greece's Top Exports
2022-2024
Principal Investigator: Christos Tsakas
Collaborating Institutions: Institute for Mediterranean Studies