Status:Closed

Opening date: 1 September 2022

Closing date: 14 October 2022

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In 2023, the institute will fund 12-month "Seed" projects worth between €5,000 and €10,000, which will encourage the emergence of new research and the structuring of partner networks with a view to responding to high-level national or Internationally competitive 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 : 14/10/2022
  • Announcement of results : December 2022
  • Project development : January to December 2023

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

    2023
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    Venice before Venice

    Project leader(s)
    Christophe Morhange / Giulia Boetto / Morteza Djamali
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / CCJ / IMBE
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    Venice before Venice

    Project leader(s)
    Christophe Morhange / Giulia Boetto / Morteza Djamali
    Laboratory(s)
    CEREGE / CCJ / IMBE

    The aim of this interdisciplinary project is to apply a cross-archaeological, geomorphological, geochemical, archaeo-palynological and paleoceanological approach in order to characterize the environmental contexts that have affected ́ the evolution of the Roman ports in the Venetian lagoon (Torcello, Lio Piccolo, Altinum sector) for ca. 3000 years to reveal the main stages in the history of the lagoon's ports and channels. The focus will be on understanding the drivers of change, in particular (i) the evolution of floodplain and lagoon wetlands through geochemical, palynological and bio-sedimentological (microfauna) analysis; (ii) fluvial and littoral constraints (cf. accessibility to the sea, catastrophic floods, sedimentary budget and crises, vulnerabilities etc.), which have led to silting of port basins and progressive clogging of lagoon margins, and provoked abrupt changes; (iii) the impacts of human actions (direct such as engineering works, channelization at Lio Piccolo, and dredging, metal pollution revealed by stable isotopes of lead and trace metals, or indirect impacts such as forest clearance). Understanding the environmental and anthropogenic factors in the evolution of the ports of Lio Piccolo and Torcello will constitute an essential scientific advance for a better understanding of the co-construction processes of Venice's lagoon landscapes, as well as the ecological and hydrological trajectory of the ports in terms of accessibility and navigabilitý in the North Adriatic. The highlight is the possibility of core sampling in 2023 in the Piazza San Marco under the auspices of the Archaeological Superintendence of Venice.

    Partners:

    • Mediterranean Institute of Oceanology (MIO - Marseille)
    • Travaux et recherches archéologiques sur les cultures, les espaces et les sociétés (TRACES - Toulouse)
    • Università Ca' Foscari Venezia (Italy)
    • Università di Bologna (Italy)
    • Università di Pisa (Italy)
    See the associated call for project

  • Awardee

    2023
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    ANNE-ARCHI - The Romanesque church of Saint Anne in Jerusalem: archaeological and archival research on the architecture of a major 12th-century religious building in the Holy Land

    Project leader(s)
    Andreas Hartmann-Virnich / Nicolas Faucherre / Vincent Lemire
    Laboratory(s)
    LA3M
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    ANNE-ARCHI - The Romanesque church of Saint Anne in Jerusalem: archaeological and archival research on the architecture of a major 12th-century religious building in the Holy Land

    Project leader(s)
    Andreas Hartmann-Virnich / Nicolas Faucherre / Vincent Lemire
    Laboratory(s)
    LA3M

    The project follows on from the study of the church and site of Abu Gosh carried out by the same team between 2016 and 2021. A revision of the restoration archives, a new digital survey (tacheometry & photogrammetry), an archaeological study of the elevations and a metrological analysis will form the starting point for a comparative study of the church with that of Abu Gosh, to which it is often compared despite the notable differences in its design and construction. The aim is to provide new keys for reading and analyzing Frankish religious architecture in the Near East, particularly in the 12th century.

    Partner(s):

    • French Research Center in Jerusalem (CRFJ)
    See the associated call for project