Status:Closed

Opening date: 15 April 2020

Closing date: 15 June 2020

Primer

In 2020, the institute will be funding 12-month "Seed" projects worth between €5,000 and €10,000, to encourage the emergence of new research and the structuring of partner networks with a view to responding to high-level national or Internationally-renowned calls for proposals.

Projects must be collaborative, involving the partnership of at least two laboratories belonging to the institute. Other French or foreign teams may also be involved. Only permanent staff from member laboratories may submit projects.

Evaluation criteria

  • Quality, ambition and relevance of the project to the Institute's scientific priorities;
  • Interdisciplinary nature of the team;
  • Development of Internationally recognized partnerships, in particular within the CIVIS consortium and with institutions in Mediterranean countries;
  • Planned links with AMU's training programs;
  • Medium-term vision of the project's future, and in particular of the targeted AAP(s);
  • Co-financing (laboratory's own Resources, external funding).

Eligible expenses

  • Only the following operating expenses are eligible: mission expenses for team members and guests, services, internship bonuses, consumables and small equipment (< €800 excl. VAT, except audiovisual equipment for which the threshold is set at €400 excl. VAT);
  • Ineligible are translation and publishing costs, expenses related to the organization of scientific or public events, computer hardware, and all investment and payroll expenses.
     

Calendar

  • Application deadline : 15/06/2020
  • Announcement of results : July 2020
  • Project development : October 2020 to March 2022

Application

Application form to be sent to arkaia-contact[at]univ-amu.fr

Contact us

Testimonials

Touatia Amraoui
CNRS Research Fellow - Centre Camille Jullian

Thanks to the "Amorce" scheme, the institute has supported the structuring of a program focused on the Tipasa site. Our work, focusing on the geosciences, is now financed by the Fonds de solidarité pour les projets innovants, in partnership with the French Embassy, the Algerian Centre national de recherche en archéologie and the Centre universitaire de Tipaza.

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Awardees

  • Awardee

    2020
    Primer

    ArcHiLoc - Archaeology, history and literary representation of local pantheons in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Project leader(s)
    Hélène Aurigny / Guillaume Biard / Cécile Durvye
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / TDMAM
    Primer

    ArcHiLoc - Archaeology, history and literary representation of local pantheons in the Eastern Mediterranean

    Project leader(s)
    Hélène Aurigny / Guillaume Biard / Cécile Durvye
    Laboratory(s)
    CCJ / TDMAM

    The aim of this project is to set up an Internationally recognized research network on the construction of local pantheons in Greek religion, focusing on three well-documented sites: Argos, Delos and Thasos. Our approach to this already richly bibliographed subject aims to understand how polytheism worked in practice, basing our analysis on both all available local sources and the representations given of it in literature. The perspective is therefore fundamentally multi-disciplinary, both in terms of the diversity of sources and the disciplines called upon to deal with them, as reflected by the project sponsors (archaeology, history, classics).

    A better understanding of how cults functioned on a local scale, the distribution of functions by divinity and changes over time will shed light on the ways in which cults and their representation were structured in relation to the expression of political and social communities.

    The strong institutional partnerships on which we are relying and the contacts we have already established with specialists in these issues will enable this project to be implemented within the allotted 18-month timeframe.

    Partner(s):

    • French School of Athens
    • Swedish Institute at Athens
    See the associated call for project