Research Projects
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.
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
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
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
PROSPECT
An international academic network for research, education and outreach in archaeological prospection
2022
International Thematic Network, Ghent University- Partner
Fin de siècle
Fin de siècle: Impressions of Melodies from Smyrna
2021-2022
The project concerns the creation and publication of a trilingual book-cd (Greek-English-French), containing songs from the region of Smyrna, published in late 19th century by L. A. Bourgault Ducoudray under the title Trente Mélodies Populaires de Grèce & d’ Orient.
BALAA
Byzantine Agricultural Landscape Across the Aegean: Historical Analysis of the Landscapes of Messene in the Peloponnese (GR) and Amorium in Asia Minor (TR)
2021-2023
Principal Investigator: Nikos Tsivikis
Collaborating Institutions: Anadolu University, Eskişehir and Society for Messenian Archaeological Studies
Η Πόλις γεννιέται
nomades artcore: «Η Πόλις γεννιέται»
2021
Μια «κατακερματισμένη» παράσταση, εμπνευσμένη από τις ανώνυμες μαρτυρίες ανθρώπων, οι οποίοι έζησαν και μεγάλωσαν στο Ρέθυμνο του χθες και του σήμερα. Φωνές σημερινών γονιών, νέων, μαθητών. Ένα συνονθύλευμα καθημερινού λόγου, ακαδημαϊκής γνώσης, σωματικότητας, ποίησης και ζωντανής μουσικής.