This page is divided by funding, organised alfabetically. Projects in each call are organised by date.
Active projects
Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR), Departament de Recerca i Universitats, Generalitat de Catalunya
Ajuts de formació d’Investigdors (FI-DGR)
Landscapes of Greek colonisaton: an integrated archaeological approach of the compared territorial and landscape dynamics around the Ionian colonies of Abdera and Emporion (Thrace, Gr. and Catalunya, Sp.) (2023-current)
PhD thesis: Isabel Mattuzzi. AGAUR, Ajuts de Formació d’Investigadors (FI-DGR)
Computational approaches to the long-term reconstruction of past Thessalian landscapes (01/05/2021 – current)
PhD Thesis: Konstantina Venieri. AGAUR, Ajuts de Formació d’Investigadors (FI-DGR) (2021 FI_B 00989)
Advancing the development of automated intensive archaeological survey: application to case studies from Greece (01/07/2020 – current)
PhD thesis: Giannis Apostolou. AGAUR, Ajuts de Formació d’Investigadors (FI-DGR) (2020 FI_B 01013)
Beatriu de Pinós
Automated detection and monitoring of endangered archaeological sites at global scales using Big Earth Data, cloud-computing workflows and Artificial Intelligence. (01/04/2022 – 31/03/2025)
AGAUR, Beatriu de Pinós (2020 BP 00203)
Quadriennals
Arqueologia de l’alta muntanya a les capçaleres del Segre – Ter (Cerdanya-Ripollès): territori i paisatge (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2025)
Projecte Quadriennal, Generalitat de Catalunya, ARQ001SOL-157-2022
Arqueologia del paisatge agrari, ocupació del territori i interaccions socioambientals al Baix Ter (Montgrí-Daró) (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2025)
Projecte Quadriennal, Generalitat de Catalunya, CLT009/18/00034
PastMont. Pastoralisme i explotació del medi natural al Montseny occidental en la transició de l’Antiguitat al món Medieval. Recerca arqueològica, transferència de coneixement i proposta de socialització de resultats (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2025)
Projecte Quadriennal, Generalitat de Catalunya, CLT009/22/00036
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España
Contrato para la formación de doctores y profesorado universitario (FPI & FPU)
Estructuració del territori i dinàmiques d’ocupació dels espais altimontans pirinencs orientals. Un estudi arqueomorfològic entre la plana de la Cerdanya i l’alta muntanya (01/09/2020 – 31/08/2024)
PhD Thesis: Arnau Carbonell-Puigventós. Contrato para la formación de doctores FPI, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PRE2019-088420)
Pràctiques ramaderes i innovacions zootècniques en època romana al nord-est peninsular a partir d’anàlisis bioquímiques (2023 – current)
PhD Thesis: Rosa Soler. Contrato para la formación de doctores FPI, Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Juan de la Cierva
Heritage under young forests: recording and interpreting the cultureal heritage underneath the afforested Zagori (NW Greece) (01/01/2023 – 31/12/2024)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (FJC2021-047943-I)
Off the beaten track: the diffusion of Imperial economic influence to inland regions in Antiquity (01/01/2023 – 31/12/2024)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (FJC2021-047729-I)
Landscape Geoarchaeology: Applications in Mediterranean Landscapes of Greece, Spain and France (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2024)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (IJC2020-045609-I)
Proyectos de Colaboración Internacional
RIVERINE: Mapping archaeological mounds and long-term socio-ecological transformations in riverine monsoonal plains (2022 – 2024)
Proyectos de Colaboración Internacional, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PCI2021-122026-2B)
Proyectos I+D. Generación del Conocimiento
DarkAegean. The agricultural economy of the Aegean Dark Ages through machine learning-powered 3D cereal grain morphometrics (01/09/2023 – 31/08/2026)
Proyectos I+D. Generación del Conocimiento. Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2022-139907NB-I00)
TranScapes. Transported Mediterranean Landscape: Integrated and diachronic study of socio-environmental interactions and changes in the occupation of the environment on both sides of the Mediterranean (01/09/2022 / 31/08/2025)
Proyectos I+D. Generación del Conocimiento. Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2021-127064NB-I00)
Ramón y Cajal
Innovative approaches to surface archaeological record for historical landscape analysis (01/01/23 – 31/12/27)
Ramón y Cajal, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (RYC2021-034341-I)
Transeant. Landscape of transhumance: Environmental archaeology research between Eastern Pyrenees (Spain) and Maritime Alps (Italy) (01/12/2022 – 30/11/2025)
Ramón y Cajal, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (RYC-2021-034621-I)
Roman expansion and acculturations at both sides of the Mediterranean: searching for patterns, rates and singularities through archaeozoology (01/03/2021 – 28/02/2026)
Ramón y Cajal, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (RYC-2019-026732-I)
Social archaeobotany: from the emergence of agriculture to historic urban societies (28/06/2019 – 27/6/2024)
Ramón y Cajal, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (RYC-2017-22105)
European Commission (EC), European Union
Interreg SUDOE
Cultur-Monts: Valorización de los Paisajes Culturales de montaña: un recurso de desarrollo territorial sostenible (01/01/2024 – 31/12/2026)
Interreg SUDOE, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (S1/4.6/E0050)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
AGRI-DRY: Dryland agriculture and Land use; past, present and future resilience (01/03/2024 – 29/02/2028)
Associated partners. Coordinated by UPF (Barcelona). Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-DN-01-101120560)
R3NUrb: Reconstructing Roman Road Network for the understanding of Urban development (01/10/2023 – 30/09/2025)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-PF-01-01-101109605)
SIGNATURE: Mapping endangered cultural soilscapes in post-conflict regions through Big Earth Observation Data, artificial intelligence and geoarchaeological signatures. (01/08/2023 – 30/07/2025)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101067100)
PlantNetGem: Exploring the process of urbanisation in the Roman provinces of Germania through the study of food plant commerce (01/10/2022-09/09/2025)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101063192)
NetFoodIt: Networking food plant imports in Roman Italy (01/12/2022-30/11/2024),
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101065142)
UnderTheSands. Ancient irrigation detection and analysis using Advanced remote sensing methods (05/09/2022 – 04/09/2024)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101062705)
The Twinning Green Deal
REVITALISER: Preventive Protection of Archaeological Sites in the Emmena Region (01/10/2024-30/09/2027)
Project partners, coordinated by Erastothenes Centre of Excellence (Cyprus). Twinning Green Deal, HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions (HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02: 101159951)
Other public projects
Exploring Roman tastes: an archaeobotanical and network analysis approach to the investigation of food plant access, commerce and social identities (01/12/2021 – current)
PhD thesis by Theoni Baniou. PhD grants of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, ICAC-CERCA (CIN21 26.59)
Feeding the Gap: A modern experimental cultivation project towards the creation of new tools that explore past agriculture (15/03/2021 – current)
PhD Thesis. Alexandra Kriti. Supervised by Dr. Alexandra Livarda (ICAC), and Dr. Elisa Ninou (Associate Professor from the International Hellenic University, Department of Agriculture in Thessaloniki, Greece)
Private funding
MAPHSA: Mapping the Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage of South America (01/01/2023-31/12/2025)
Co-PIs. Coordinated by the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF). Funded by Arcadia Fund
MAHSA: Mapping Archaeological Heritage Sites in Asia (01/10/2020 – 31/03/2024)
Co-PIs. Coordinated by the University of Cambridge. Funded by Arcadia Fund
Past Projects (from 2017)
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STAR-AGESS: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Ritual an Ancient Greek Experience of Sacred Spaces (01/09/2022 – 29/02/2024)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-101026674)
Holocene socio-environmental relationships in the Indus Valley (2020-2023)
Leverhulme Research Project Grant, RPG-2019-392
AI4Archaeology: deep learning algorithms for the automated detection of sites in Aragón and Extremadura (01/01/2023-01/01/2024)
Enel Green Power España SL
Palaikastro, Phase IV (2012-2023)
Co-PIs. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the British School at Athens, INSTAP & private donors
Re-contextualising the Neolithisation of Greece: Establishing a reliable chronology of the Early Neolithic site Plateia Magoula, Prodromos, western Thessaly, central Greece (2017-2024)
Natural Environment Research Council, UK
Long time, no see: land reclamation and the cultural record of central-western plain of Thessaly (2014-2024)
Partners. Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Research Grants
Kachchh Archaeological Project: trade, pastoralism and the origins of the Indus Civilisation (01/01/2021 – 31/12/2023)
Palarq Foundation, Subvenciones 2020
DarkSeeds: A new explanatory paradigm for the agricultural economies of the Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Age using Machine Learning-aided 3D morphometrics and stable isotope analyses (2022 – 2024)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-101024917)
Arqueopirenaia. Transferencia social, didáctica y mediación del patrimonio en un paisaje cultural de alta montaña (Valle de Núria, Pirineos Orientales)(01/07/2022 – 30/09/2023)
FECYT, Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FT-21-17298)
DarkRevisited. The Aegean ‘Dark Ages’ revisited: a novel approach to old debates on agricultural economy and food culture (01/06/2020 – 31/05/2023)
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2019-107605GB-I00)
Automated machine learning applications in landscape archaeology (01/04/2020 – 31/03/2023)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (IJC2018-038319-I)
New Computational Methods for Automated Large-Scale Archaeological Site Detection (26/10/2018 – 13/01/2023)
PhD Thesis. Iban Berganzo-Besga. Supervised by Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA-ICAC) & Felipe Lumbreras (CVC-UAB).
TrackSherd. Towards an automated archaeological surface survey (02/01/2020 – 01/01/2023)
Beatriu de Pinós MSCA Co-fund project (2018 BP 00208)
Transeant. Landscape of transhumance: Environmental archaeology research between Eastern Pyrenees (Spain) and Maritime Alps (Italy) (01/12/2020 – 30/11/2022)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) (FJC2019-040406-I)
YARNSCAPE. Ecological Economies of Ancient Textiles (2020-2022)
European Research Area H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 840892
DIASur. Prospección arqueológica inteligente sobre plataforma dron / Drone-based Intelligent Archaeological Survey (2020-2022)
Ayudas Fundación BBVA a Equipos de Investigación Científica
Archaeozoology of Caesarea Maritima: Animal Interactions in an Imperial Port City on the Mediterranean (2020-2021)
The Caesarea Maritima Project, New York University Tel-Aviv.
TransMed. Transported Landscapes of Greek Mediterranean Colonisation (2019-2022)
European Research Area H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 839650
The Roman conquest of Tunisia: an archaeozoological approach (2019-2021)
Erasmus+, International Doctorate in Quaternary and Prehistory
TransLands. Transported Mediterranean landscapes: an integrated analysis of long-term land-use dynamics at both sides of the Mediterranean (2019-2021)
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, PGC2018-093734-B-I00
Arqueologia dels paisatges culturals de muntanya a les capçaleres del Ter i del Segre (Ripollès-Cerdanya) (2018-2021)
Projecte Quadriennal, Generalitat de Catalunya. CLT009/18/00101
Espais agraris i ocupació del territori a la plana de l’Empordà: arqueologia d’un paisatge cultural (2018-2021)
Projecte Quadriennal, Generalitat de Catalunya. CLT009/18/00097
L’Alt Congost entre l’Antiguitat Tardana i l’Alta Edat Mitjana: Recerca arqueològica, transferència de coneixement i proposta de socialització de resultats(01/01/2018 – 31/12/2021)
Projecte Quadriennal. Generalitat de Catalunya. CLT009/18/00096
Paisatges culturals de l’Alt Congost. Recerca arqueològica, transferència de coneixement i proposta de socialització dels resultats (01/01/2014 – 31/12/2017)
Projecte Quadriennal. Generalitat de Catalunya. CLT2014/100955
