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Title: Minutes, ARCHAEOMAP Project Third Meeting

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MINUTES ARCHAEOMAP THIRD MEETING UNIVERSITA’ TELEMATICA INTERNAZIONALE UNINETTUNO Rome, Italy 15-17 December 2008 C.so Vittorio Emanuele II, 39 - Rome 2008-R02 Document Number

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Total number of pages including covers (excluding rear covers): 35 Programme: 6th FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME - SCIENTIFIC SUPPORT TO POLICIES Area 3.6 “The protection of cultural heritage and associated conservation strategies” Task 3: To identify best practices for the long-term management of archaeological sites Project Name: ARCHAEOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT POLICIES - ARCHAEOMAP Contract Number: FP6-SSP5- 044376 Issued by: Giacoma Brancato, SOPMARE Distribution: See Distribution List at the end of the document Created using MS Word 2007

Authors: Luca Beninati; Sebastiano Tusa; Salvatore Giannino


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THIRD MEETING DRAFT REPORT

1 PARTICIPANTS AND AGENDA

1.1 The following table lists the participating contracting organisations and their respective representatives:

Organisation name Participant org. short

name

Country

Representative (short-cut)

Regione Siciliana Dipartimento Beni Culturali e Ambientali – Soprintendenza del Mare

SOPMARE Italy SebastianoTusa (ST)


SOPMARE Italy Nicola Bruno (NB)


SOPMARE Italy Roberto Morinilli (RM)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNESCO INO Margherita Tor (MT)


UNESCO INO Salvatore Giannino (SG)


UNESCO INO Ulrike Koschtial (UK)

Comitato Pro Arsenale Borbonico

ARSENALE DI PALERMO

Italy Salvatore Brucato (SB) *

International Institute for the Study of Man

INTERINSTITUTE Italy Carmelo Sebbio (CS)

Liaisons Mediterranée TUNISIA Tunis Ouafa Ben Slimane (OBS)

Università Uninettuno - Università Telematica Internazionale

UNINETTUNO Italy Emma Angelini (EA)


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Università Uninettuno - Università Telematica Internazionale

UNINETTUNO Italy Maria Amata Garito (MAG)

Departement of Underwater Archeology -Supreme Council of Antiquities

EGYPT-DUA-SCA Egypt Alaa El-Din Mahrous (AEDM)

Graeco -Roman Museum EGYPT-DUA-SCA Egypt Salwa Mahmoud Abd-El-Meguid (SMAEM)

Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya

AMC Spain Xavier Nieto Prieto (XNP)

Fondazione Athena Sviluppo

ATHENA Italy Luca Carmelo Gennaro Beninati (LCGB)

Associazione Archeo-Antropologica Approfondimenti Interdisciplinari Operativi

AAA.AIO’ Italy Sergio Frau (SF)


AAA.AIO’ Italy Claudio Giardino (CG)


AAA.AIO’ Italy Massimo Faraglia (MF)

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

CNRS France Jean Mascle (JM)

Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna WIRT ARTNA Malta Jonathan Borg (JB) CNRS of Lebanon LEBANON Lebanon Alexandre Sursock (AS) Gibraltar Museum GIBRALTAR Gibraltar Darren Fa (DF) European Commission EC Belgium Michel Chapuis (MC)**

*only the first day. ** present only the third day

Here below, the contracting organisation absentees' list:

Organisation name

Participant org. short name

Country

Representative (short-cut)


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Comitato Pro Arsenale Borbonico

ARSENALE DI PALERMO

Italy Salvatore Brucato (SB) ***

Consorzio Universitario per l’Ateneo della Sicilia Occidentale e il Bacino del Mediterraneo

UNISOM Italy Roberto Bertini (RB)

*** absent the second and the third days Chair: Maria Amata Garito - Sebastiano Tusa Minute: Giacoma Brancato - Luca Beninati 1.2 The following agenda was approved at the beginning of the meeting but not maintained in

full during meeting itself: timetable and related subjects have been discussed following an order primary suggested by needs oneset.

AGENDA

First Day (15.12.2008) 9.00 a.m.

• Welcoming address by the Rector of the “Università Telematica Internazionale UNINETTUNO” Maria Amata Garito;

• Speech by the Chairperson of the International Committee Mustafa El Tayeb and by the Archaeomap Coordinator Sebastiano Tusa;

• Approval of the Agenda. 9.30 a.m. Item I of the administrative Agenda (WP7 and WP8) (first session):

Topic Responsible

• Budget updating and approval of all partners

Coordinator

• How to draw up the administrative documents

Coordinator

Next administrative documents to prepare: Contract for human resources Receipts of payment

Coordinator


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11.00 a.m. Coffee break 11.15 a.m. Item I of the administrative Agenda (WP7 and WP8) (first session):

Topic Responsible

• Risk mismanagement by administrative and technical co-ordinators.

• Compensation/remediation measures: to respect project agenda; to maintain strict step-by-step control over planned activities; to maintain strict ongoing relation with the EU; to gather in a centralized way the output produced, documents, expenses and management accounts related to the project.

Coordinator

• Risk of poor technical and administrative co-ordination with

partners and in particular with the Committee management. • Compensation/remediation measures: to single out a

referent for the production of technical and administrative documents included in an organizational chart and directly referring to the project coordinator.

Coordinator

• Risk of inefficacious and inefficient partner participation.

• Compensation/remediation measures: to give to all partners an agenda covering technical and administrative aspects; to identify key points to raise during every meeting in order to ensure that specific project aims are achieved; to come to an arrangement on matters and ensuring that every single partner makes a contribution during meetings.

Coordinator

• Risk of non-compliance with work planning. • Compensation/remediation measures: to respect the project

agenda; to maintain strict step-by-step control over planned activities.

Coordinator

1.00 p.m. Lunch 2.30 p.m. Item I of the scientific Agenda: training workshops on distance teaching module

(WP3)

Topic Responsible

• Presentation of the distance teaching module general structure

UNINETTUNO Coordinator,


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• Definition of the list of interviews during the meeting days UNINETTUNO and UNESCO

• Considerations to programme the didactic structure of the interviews

The International Committee starts to collect the results related to the experiences from ten ARCHAEOMAP pilot study in a multimedia interview from UNINETTUNO TV studios; The distance teaching module is aimed at making

international public aware of the importance of common Mediterranean heritage; This report will be used as basis for the ARCHAEOMAP

distance teaching module, distributed in the Mediterranean area thanks to UNINETTUNO International Telematic University supported by RAI MED SAT. Multimedia presentation of the ten ARCHAEOMAP study

cases and their relative research programmes to manage natural and cultural resources for an integrated coastal zone protection and a socio-economical sustainable development;

Modalities of utilisation of the Archaeomap distance teaching module;

Archaeomap material is useful for UNINETTUNO interviews in order to prepare didactic videos to satisfy the training requirements of the project;

International and national experts in natural, cultural and underwater heritage of the Mediterranean participate at the interviews

Coordinator, UNESCO

4.00 pm. Coffee break 4.15 p.m. Item II of the scientific Agenda: “The contribution of Culture to sustainable development

around the Mediterranean basin” (WP 2 – first session)

Topic

Responsible

• Presentation of the Initial Socio Economic Analysis of archaeological sites

Liaisons Mediterranée

• Presentation of GIS card adapted to coastal archaeological

sites

Fondazzioni Wirt Artna

• Presentation of the Methodology to manage archaeological sites

Gibraltar Museum


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5.30 p.m. Item III of the scientific Agenda: training workshops on distance teaching module (WP 3)

• Didactic visit of the UNINETTUNO TV studios

6.00 p.m. End of the first day meeting

Second Day (16.12.2008) 9.00 a.m. Item IV of the scientific Agenda: “The contribution of Science to sustainable

development in the Mediterranean area” - progress report on the standard indicators to be used for the Archaeomap management guidelines resorting from the pilot site experiences (WP 2 – second session)

Topic

Responsible

• Presentation of the Environmental Initial Analysis of archaeological sites;

Coordinator

• Presentation of a concretely example of interdisciplinary indicators for measuring progress towards sustainable development of the Mediterranean coast;

UNESCO

The Archaeomap International Committee has: a. to reflect how this indicators can be implemented for a

common Archaeomap management guideline taking into account the experience of the ten pilot sites;

Coordinator and UNESCO

The Archaeomap International Committee seeks to provide context-specific opportunities to combine scientific knowledge and forms of governance starting to integrate the GIS cards (both for underwater and coastal archaeological sites), the environmental Initial Analysis, the Socio-economic Initial Analysis, the management methodology of Gibraltar and the UNESCO Table indicators and recommendations elaborated specifically for ARCHAEOMAP project by the Science Policy and Sustainable Development Division;

All partners

Discussions, summary and conclusion.

All partners

11.00 a.m. Coffee break


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11.15 a.m. Item V of the scientific Agenda: “The contribution of Science to sustainable development in the Mediterranean area” (WP 2 – third session)

Topic

Responsible

• Presentation of Villefranche, Tyre and Sinis study cases and their relative research programmes to manage natural resources for coastal zone protection

CNRs of France, CNR of Lebanon and AAA.I.O’

• Presentation of the UNESCO feasibility study for underwater museum in Alexandria;

a. The Ministry of Culture of Egypt has asked UNESCO to advise on the feasibility study for the establishment of a museum in Alexandria;

b. The Museum will be located partly underwater to exhibit the remains of Cleopatra’s palace and the remnants of the lighthouse of Pharos (one of the seven wonders of the ancient world…).

UNESCO

• Summary of key issues and discussion on previous presentations.

All partners

1.00 p.m. Lunch 2.30 p.m. Item VI of the scientific Agenda: progress report on the publication plan and strategy

of Archaeomap communication plan (WP 3 and WP 4)

Topic

Responsible

Guide line presentation for publication and abstracts Archaeomap pilot site papers have to be comprehensive of

quotations, maps and figures; Each paper should be not longer than 15 pages and contain

no more that 20 maps or/and figures; Papers and figures must be available also on a CD-rom;


• Progress report on ARCHAEOMAP web-site development;

Coordinator

Updating of Plan for using and disseminating the knowledge


• Discussion, summary and conclusion.

4.00 pm. Coffee break


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4.15 pm. Item VII of the scientific Agenda: The ARCHAEOMAP FORUM in PARIS and future developments of the project

Topic

Responsible

UNESCO will be organizing an international forum in Paris, in avril 2009, to disseminate the information amassed by the Archaeomap project via a symposium and training workshop:

• UNESCO will present the World Heritage Convention (1972), and the Convention on Underwater Cultural Heritage (2001);

• The Committee will also look for further financing funds in order to develop a new European Project to supports new research activities.

UNESCO

• Next Actions to develop ARCHAEOMAP project • FORUM in Paris (WP2) • Publications, web site, distance teaching

module, final DWD and CDr (WP6)


• Presentation of a new project FP7 call 2009 • Discussion, summary and conclusion. All partners

5.30 p.m. End of the scientific Work session: concluding remarks by Sebastiano Tusa, Maria

Amata Garito and Mustafa El Tayeb

Third Day (17.12.2008)

9.00 a.m. Item III of the administrative Agenda: Mid-Term-Assessment evaluation (first session)

Topic

Responsible

• Introduction of EC-Representative: purpose of MTA

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• Scientific and technological quality • Objectives and achievements during the first half of the

project; progress and deliverables, results; detailed review/relevance of the project according to each WP and task; (ca. 15 min by each WP-Leader)

• Objectives to be met during the second part of the project and emerging deliverables: research methodology, case studies, evaluation of methodology and procedure (20 min by Co-ordinator)

• Questions and discussion involving EC representative and all partners (20 min)


• Community added value: • Contribution of the project to EU policies (research,

cultural/urban /regional policy, environment, contribution to EU objectives

Coordinator and

UNESCO

11.00 a.m. Coffee break 11.15 a.m. Item IV of the administrative Agenda: Mid-Term-Assessment evaluation (third

session)

Topic

Responsible

• Economic development and scientific & technological prospects • Potential use of results and transfer of knowledge

(presentation by each partner) • Plan for dissemination of results, and awareness draft Plan:

final conference or event /clustering and liaisons with other projects (by WP leader for dissemination )

• Questions and discussion involving EC representative(s) and all partners

All partners EC

• Resources, partnership and management: • Financial aspects and utilisation of funding (based on tables

of personnel and costs planned and real ) - Quality assurance /internal evaluation

• Introduction by co-ordinator followed by statements of each partner regarding co-operation within the consortium until MTA

Co-ordinator / All

partners

• Conclusions / Recommendations

EC/All partners

1.00 p.m. Lunch


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2.30 p.m. Item V of the administrative Agenda: Mid-Term-Assessment evaluation (fourth

session) Topic

Responsible

• Recent EU research policy: • Research Framework Programmes 6 and 7 and related

issues • Conclusions and recommendations

EC

EC/All partners

2 MAIN TOPICS DISCUSSED AT THE FIRST DAY (15.12.2008)

2.1 Welcome and Introduction

2.1.1 The meeting has been opened by MAG (Chancellor of Università Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno) She has introduced her University: the Institution carries out training and research activities through the use of telematic and satellite (television and internet) technologies, in order to implement distant teaching and learning processes and thanks to which all citizens in the world can have access to knowledge without any space, time or geographic limits. Thanks to this new technology, the production and the dissemination of knowledge can take place through collaboration with the best Universities of the world. Students can broaden the scope of their knowledge, study and learn about different cultures. In this way, they can expand on their learning experience in a productive and cooperative way. As a result of a first step, due to the success of the telematic didactic system of the Consorzio NETTUNO, thousands of Italian and foreign students have obtained a degree by using modern technology so gaining a qualification directly from the Consortium's Italian university members. Thanks to a second step, with the international success of the Med Net’U (Mediterranean Network of Universities) Project, funded by the European Community as part of the Eumedis Programme, a network was established among 31 partners of 11 countries of the Euro-Mediterranean area. With the International Telematic University UNINETTUNO, the Universities of the different countries are now jointly creating network of shared knowledge. The University structure includes an International Centre, Faculties, Degrees and Technological Centres. The Technological Centres, located both in Italy and abroad,


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are facilities available to students. These are equipped with all of the technology necessary to follow the courses at a distance. As a result, the students can take part in didactic activities by videoconference. These locations constitute an actual meeting point for students, teachers and tutors. This makes face to face exams, and seminars possible. The main didactic tool is the Internet-based learning environment www.uninettunouniversity.net, the first portal in the world where it is possible to teach and learn in five languages – Arabic, French, English, Italian and Spanish. In the new teaching model proposed, the individual student becomes the centre of the educational process. He or she is guided by a new figure: the telematic teacher/tutor who has the task of facilitating the online learning and communication process through the necessary tools. The students actively participate in the creation of their learning environments. They can thus build on their knowledge individually, instead of passively receiving information. The approaches to teaching and learning are both synchronic and diachronic. There are video lessons, practice exercises on the Internet (also through virtual laboratories) and distance tutoring sessions by video and audio chat. There are forums and videoconferences, as well. STUDY PROCESSES: Practice exercises and virtual laboratories. Video-lessons are broadcast via Internet and on the RAI NETTUNNO SAT1 satellite channel. The video-lessons represent the focus of the learning process whereby the student can learn in a hyper-textual way. Didactic Cyberspace: in the didactic cyberspace, one may find the professor’s and the tutor’s pages. With these the student can access the “learning objects”, or the digitalized video-lessons with bookmarks that provide the students with hyper-textualand multimedia connections to books, bibliographies, texts of exercises and website references selected by the teachers. Distance tutoring: The online tutoring is organized in classes, with an advanced Agenda system that can recognize the single user, thus making it possible to customize functions and choose particular appointments of interest. Virtual Classroom: This is the 'environment' where direct interaction between teachers, students and tutors takes place. In the virtual classroom, students use interactive tools, complete practice exercises and take intermediate evaluation tests. Here the students can talk and learn in a cooperative and collaborative way. The University is authorized to issue academic titles that are legally recognized in Italy and abroad related to: first level degrees, specialist degrees, master’s degrees and research doctorates. Five faculties for three-year degrees are active: Engineering Faculty Law Faculty


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Economics Faculty Psychology Faculty Literature Faculty

2.1.2 A reconnaissance in the inside of the web site has been engaged in order to put in evidence other important University pillars.

2.1.3 A simulation of interaction between a student and the system has been presented too. 2.2 SG (UNESCO, Natural Sciences Sector, Division of Science Analysis and Policies )

has illustrated the historical roots of the plan for the sustainable development of the Mediterranean sea heritage, conceived in the inside of UNESCO. Within this framework, an agreement reached between UNESCO and the Soprintendenza del Mare of Sicily Region has given a form to these intentions and a State cooperation scheme for ensuring effective protection in maritime zones has converged into a project financed by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Program: ARCHAEOMAP PROJECT. Aimed at developing balanced, interrelated policies with an integrated coastal zone management it gives, with its focus, the reason to affirm that it is the concrete expression of AGENDA 21 for earth sustainable development.

2.3 RM (Regione Siciliana Dipartimento Beni Culturali e Ambientali – Soprintendenza

del Mare) has presented himself as the person in charge to speak in name and on behalf of Giacoma Brancato.

2.4 ST (Regione Siciliana Dipartimento Beni Culturali e Ambientali – Soprintendenza

del Mare) has remembered that from project will be collected all the useful elements for guidelines whose drawing up will be strictly in compliance with the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. Ratified by 20 States, the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage will enter into force 2 January 2009. It aims at ensuring more effective safeguarding of submerged shipwrecks and ruins. Underwater cultural heritage encompasses all traces of human existence that lie or were lying under water and have a cultural or historical character. Recognizing the urgent need to preserve and protect such heritage, UNESCO elaborated the Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage in 2001. This is a very important step in the history of the safeguarding of cultural heritage,” “This represents an essential addition to UNESCO’s standard-setting apparatus. From now on, it will be possible to offer legal protection to the historical memory


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that is in underwater cultural heritage, thus curtailing the growing illicit trade by looters.”

The Convention, adopted in 2001 by UNESCO’s General Conference, aims at ensuring more effective safeguarding of submerged shipwrecks and ruins. The international treaty represents the international community’s response to the increased looting and destruction of underwater cultural heritage, which is becoming ever more accessible to treasure hunters.

The 2001 convention is based on four main principles:

the obligation to preserve underwater cultural heritage; in situ preservation, i.e. under water, as a preferred option; no commercial exploitation of this heritage; cooperation among States to protect this precious legacy, to promote training

in underwater archeology, and to raise public awareness of the importance of sunken cultural property.

The Convention does not arbitrate ownership claims nor prejudice the jurisdiction or sovereignty of States.

The Convention’s Annex establishes rules for activities directed at underwater sites; these rules are widely recognized by archeologists.

Probably Tunisia will ratify it. The EU has not signed the convention.

ST has put in evidence the importance of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage and the need, within the framework of its international character, to put it widely into effect by recurring to bilateral or multilateral agreements primary based on territoriality waters protection. Drawing the attention over the problem of territorial seas overruns committed by the United States, the exclusive right ascribed to states to regulate the activities in territorial waters has been remembered and reaffirmed as international law states and national ones share and apply.

In the project matter again, ST has remembered that all project documentary production will be duly placed in archives looking at project continuation after its conclusion too, in view of further steps to make towards underwater heritage conservation.

For good project carrying on during its fulfillment period, ST has underlined the importance of producing, within the timetable defined, all deliverable planned: among the same ones, the archaeological sites forms/charts whose appropriate filling in, has now become urgent.


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Keeping the attention over project deliverables, ST has also explained the procedure for the creation of an e-learning distant teaching module: he has informed that every single partner should have been recorded: then, as said by ST, all records together reproducing every single partner role, its contribution to the project fulfillment, its contribution to the project methodology development and the description of the archaeological site directly and personally managed, would have made up the material for the creation of the e-learning distant teaching module.

3.0 ADMINISTRATIVE AGENDA: 3.1 RM has made an intervention on administrative matters for calling participants

attention to the need of respecting rules in force and procedures in being in order to avoid project stoppage with consequent grants stopping.

A discussion on difficulties emerged during project fulfilment and on solutions to cope with them has been opened.

3.1.1 PROBLEM EMERGED: Difficulties in managing communications in the inside of partnership

SOLUTION PROPOSED/OBJECTIONS RAISED: To try to reach an agreement with the Project Manager Giacoma Brancato for

looking for a new way of communication taking into due consideration that ARCHAEOMAP, for its nature, implies and calls for cooperation grounded on coordinating basis.

3.1.2 PROBLEM EMERGED: Difficulties in documents drawing up, problems in respecting calendar for

their preparation and delivery with consequent timeframe overrunning. Often Public Administration as well as private organizations follow times and procedures whose nature clashes and then diverges from EC praxis and requirements. Often procedures are heavy if compared to the operational and financial capacities at the partners organizations’ disposal. Often the EU administrative language is difficult to interpret. The partners have put in evidence the need to inform the EC of the problems emerged in the hope to find a solution in their favour.

SOLUTION PROPOSED/OBJECTIONS RAISED: The administrative procedure for stating the expenses and the accounting

documents collections are operations that have been conceived to trace every single expense faced: the EC does not go deeply into a financial matter and in the reason of being of an heading cost but requires that every single budget item used is justified and recorded: what the EU takes into particular consideration is primary the work progresses and the efficiency with which


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it is produced and carried out. In case of deficiencies in documents productions or in procedure respect, conditions for EC intervention against the project emerge as the action fails to be transparent and diligent as requested. RM has stressed the importance to learn correctly how to follow the EU rules, placing this need within the framework of the new project that is going to be presented to the EU: a development of ARCHAEOMAP project activities directed towards research has been conceived now that a cooperation has been experienced and then put on a solid ground based on mutual knowledge. For that project, the co-financing scheme will be applied: in consideration of this, the correct EU administrative rules application and respect is fundamental in order to avoid that in case of bad faults from partnership part European funds disbursed returns to the European Commission. (Annex A; Annex B) RM, coming back to where he has started, i.e. ARCHAEOMAP project financial matters, has centred the attention on the BUDGET issues. Created on estimation basis, 2 years ago, it has been drawn up having in mind an idea of a certain evolution: its dimension and substance have been structured in consideration of partnership composition and in consideration of planned project activities, the value ascribed to their fulfilment, considering time to carry them out, the resources to involve. The expenditure ceiling as it has been approved by the EU contracting authority is a point of reference that has to be taken into due consideration: it is the level that cannot be overcome and it is likewise the level that has necessary to be reached. It is difficult to explain to the EU the reason of both an overcharge in expenses engagements as well as an underutilization of sums put at partnership and project activities disposal: in both cases is given the reason to think that there was no idea on how to define and manage project and related financial resources and of project weight. The expenditure ceiling cannot be modified: only inner financial transfers from an heading cost to another in order to cope with project/partnership needs can be carried on: this is what could be done for facing emerging unforeseen needs. A cut of other costs will be necessary, on the other side, for creating resources otherwise not available but strictly necessary to finance the new needs. (Annex C)


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3.2 Within this framework and profiting by the matters in that moment opened for discussion, ST has put in evidence the need to revise the budget for getting the financial resources necessary to cover the costs of all publications. RM, has indicated in this meeting the timeframe in the inside of which problems emerged with this budget have to be solved.

The difficulties in managing this budget have put in evidence weak points, needs and difficulties that by now clear and concretely emerged and discussed will find a due consideration during the next project budget definition.

3.3 Face to face talks have then taken place. 4 MAIN TOPICS DISCUSSED AT THE SECOND DAY (16.12.2008)

4.1 SG (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has made a round all over the work carried out.

4.1.1 The guidelines broad lines and the drawing up procedure have been presented. (Annexes D and E)

4.1.2 A consultation of ARCHAEOMAP web site has been carried out indicating the same one as the primary collector of all documentary material produced for its easier traceableness and then identification, for its immediate availableness and consequent recovery for whatever use requested, that one for final report drawing up included.

4.1.3 As far as project matters are concerned, in order to have and to give a clear picture of the facts and in order to establish the conditions for translating sustainability concept into facts, SG has invited partners to set in motion works by starting to trace a profile of today problems in the Mediterranean that widely reproduces the biodiversity of planet earth and to give an idea of identified or feasible solutions for solving the problems identified: this work of description will have to find its place in the inside of the guidelines.

In this contests, SG has called bio indicators into question as tools useful for reading Mediterranean status: a way for interpreting how the Mediterranean has been touched and/or afflicted by history, by those human settlements and interventions through which history itself has developed as set of experiences able to characterize a place.


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4.2 RM profiting by the matters under discussion has taken the floor introducing the management systems for governing the so strongly auspicated sustainable development.

Attention has been drawn on standardization that is the expression of rules application in the inside of a clear field of action: for this reason a the field of action (the archaeological site in this case) has to be defined as contest with a Starting Environmental Analysis that consists in a analysis of the features of a space and in the way with which it relates with the “environment” all its around (an action in compliance with what just above underline and requested by SG). Only through a suitable Starting Environmental Analysis is possible: ∼ to plan a management system perfectly made to measure of needs; ∼ to concentrate every single effort on the most significant aspects keeping them

under control for improving sites management itself. For this purpose: ∼ laws and methodologies of reference have to be clearly identified; ∼ terms and definitions have to be specified; ∼ parameters have to be traced; ∼ documentation (simple in its composition; collecting site’s archaeological data;

reproducing general data on the same one; registering its hystorical/climatic/socio-economic evolution …) has to be produced for info diffusion and communication based on unequivocal language.

This because sustainable development has to work: • on a beforehand definition of what has to be realized; • on how it has to be realized.

Realization process has to follow the “one best way” logic i.e. the most suitable and optimal combination of factors of intervention. For this reason is necessary to give clear rules: in other terms, there must be standards representing a reference around which whatever swinging moving away from optimality are remove or at least reduced at their minimum. By this way, the process for sustainable development is conceived as a big machine in the inside of which every single components has its role that contributes to the machine working on the whole and to the repeatability of both process and of its results reaching. Standards definitions and the related system of reference allows to control and to assure the homogeneity in the action: only if the process has been accurately defined, rules respect can be assured; only if a process has been accurately defined, its breaking-through in the inside of the “environmental and cultural status all around” can be translated in a well balanced introduction and functioning. Standardization is the best solution for keeping all information avoiding the risk of their lost. (Annex F)


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5. Presentations from partners then has followed. 5.1 DF (Gibraltar Museum) has taken the floor making his presentation on “Applying a

Conservation Prioritization approach to Submerged and Coastal Sites”. In order to have an objective management plan, a quantitative model for rapid site evaluation has been presented, illustrating its application by using Gibraltar’s submerged and coastal sites as a case study. Under this method application, the site is evaluated recurring to a list of local and global as well as historical and natural parameters readable through a scale associated scores that once ascribed to a site depending on the features it present and once summarised in an average, they represent a synthetic site description. The same procedure of averaging scores is carried on with reference to the measurement of status quo conditions in which the site finds itself and of threats that afflict the site itself. This value allows to give an interpretation of the risk level and measures the probability of losing the asset. Scores so ascribed allow also to put in evidence the areas with high conservation priority. (Annex G)

5.2 OBS (Liaisons Mediterranée) has measured Cartagine as archaeological site for 2/3 of

its territorial dimension: under local agenda 21 putting into force, for its management the center has tried to involve the largest number of regions. A system for tsunami monitoring has been set in motion in order to protect the archaeological heritage. (Annexes H and I)

5.3 AS (CNRS of Lebanon) has intervened on earthquakes risks management allocating

them in the inside of: an international legal contest placed in the inside of the: United Nations institutional boundaries

DIPCN (Décennie Internationale pour la Prévention des Catastrophes Naturelles - Yokohama 1995) ISD (International Strategy for Disaster Reduction - Kobé-Hyogo 2001)

European Council framework: Accord Ouvert Partiel Risques Majeurs - Liban, 16/12/1997 Local territorial contest: Centering the attention on the national territory, by dimensioning the fault length and the magnitude as well as the degree of seismicity of Lebanon: identified the area exposed to these risks. Temporal contest of seismic activity and crisis evolution in recent times


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The research programme carried on starting from 1998has been summarized in the following activities: Seismic monitoring and determination of epicenters. Identification of active faults. Dating of fossil major earthquakes since 20 to 40,000 years. Recognition of faults marine origin of coastal destruction. Reconstruction of paleoclimate in the Middle East.

(Annex J)

5.4 AM (Departement of Underwater Archeology -Supreme Council of Antiquities) has related on a “Project of the Construction of an Underwater Museum in Alexandria of Egypt”

the archaeological area has been identified and the natural events that afflicted the same one have been cited: area: ancient Portus Magnus of Alexandria Subsidence movements that occurred in the area producing present findings:

– tsunami of 21 July, 365AD – around the 8th century – earthquakes in 955, 10th and 14th century (which destroyed among others

the Pharos) The project for an underwater museum has been described in steps for is realization :

• 1997 international meeting • 1998 scientific mission sponsored by UNESCO and Egyptian authorities:

proposal for underwater museum • 2006 International workshop recommends construction of museum

including underwater parts • January 2009: start of the feasibility study • Spring 2009: First session of the international UNESCO Committee • January 2010: Finalization of Feasibility Study

Problems emerging from project fulfilment put in evidence : • Strong pollution in Bay • Need of integrating the project into the development of the whole of

Alexandria • Threats to site integrity • Problem of Financing • Problems of soil stability • earthquake security • uplift of water • security problems


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• etc... Museum dimensions: Depth: 7 meters Diameter: 40meters Area: 22 000 m² Capacity : 3 millions of visitors per year Objective: An underwater voyage to the sunken cities of Alexandria. Milestones: From the lagoon, 3 celestial harps should rise up. An underwater tunnel will lead to a land where the monumental statues saved from the waters will be exhibited.

The Ministry of Culture of Egypt has asked UNESCO to establish an International Committee to advise on the feasibility study for the establishment of a museum in Alexandria, to be located partly underwater and exhibiting the remains of Cleopatra’s palace and the remnants of the lighthouse of Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. A feasibility study is under preparation to more profoundly study the practicability of the construction of an underwater museum in Egypt, which would exhibit the heritage found in the Bay of Alexandria. As the museum is envisaged to be placed partly underwater and close to or above the original archaeological sites in the Bay, considerable technical, ethical and architectural challenges will have to be resolved.

The Ministry of Culture of Egypt has therefore asked UNESCO to establish an International Scientific Committee, encompassing renowned archaeologists, museums specialists and other scientific experts, to advise on the feasibility study process.

The feasibility study itself is being undertaken by a team of professionals, including architects specialized in underwater construction, landscape architects, urban development specialists, economists, and other local and foreign specialists to advise on architectural and environmental issues, as well as the financial viability of the project. (Annex K)

5.4.1. MC has evidence that the UNESCO position is in contrast with the 2001 Convention.

5.4.2. the UNESCO’s reply is that there are economic considerations that for country’s benefit and its future economical developments linked to this enterprise have to be taken into consideration and then supported.

5.5 XNP (Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya) intervention has been made in opposition to

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information could be lost or findings destroyed and the environmental contest changed. Calling ethics into question he has remebered the importance, when damages could occur, to stop excavations. Some other solutions could take place as for ex. ST of Sicily Region has suggested, following his local experience : the installations of video cameras in the underwater spaces for the creation of a virtual museum. Alexandria is a very important archaeological site and it has reasons of being as it allows scientific information implementation. For this reason has to be protected. UNESCO lacking in decisional power should at least to enforce its guiding role for addressing towards the right direction that is to preserve the status quo instead of putting it under pressure.

MAIN TOPICS DISCUSSED AT THE THIRD DAY (17.12.2008)

6.0 Partners’ impressions over project in relation to role played

6.1 SG (UNESCO) has traced a short profile of UNESCO. Specialized United Nations agency, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) was founded on 16 November 1945. It functions as a laboratory of ideas and a standard-setter to forge universal agreements on emerging ethical issues. The Organization also serves as a clearinghouse – for the dissemination and sharing of information and knowledge – while helping Member States to build their human and institutional capacities in diverse fields. In short, UNESCO promotes international co-operation among its Member States and six Associate Members in the fields of education, science, culture and communication. UNESCO is working to create the conditions for genuine dialogue based upon respect for shared values and the dignity of each civilization and culture. This role is critical, particularly in the face of terrorism, which constitutes an attack against humanity. The world urgently requires global visions of sustainable development based upon observance of human rights, mutual respect and the alleviation of poverty, all of which lie at the heart of UNESCO’s mission and activities. Through its strategies and activities, UNESCO is actively pursuing the Millennium Development Goals, especially those aiming to: • halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty in developing countries by 2015; • achieve universal primary education in all countries by 2015; • eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education by 2015; • help countries implement a national strategy for sustainable development by 2015


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to reverse current trends in the loss of environmental resources by 2015; • UNESCO and the United Nations Millennium Goals.

6.2 OBS (Liaisons Mediterranée) presents the activity carried out by the organization during the first year of project fulfillment:

A report on the state of the places in the Carthaginian site has been made. A presentation on power point has itemized and described:

• the institutional framework • the legal framework • the modalities for in situ applied management • the Bodies and the Institutions intervening on the site • the census of the archaeological findings and the state of their conservation • the state the state of research

• the projects of planning and restoration aimed at improving the site exploitation.

During this session, the association has actively participated to the different discussions emerged on management and financial matters, as well as on the methodology and scientific ones. It has also participated to the discussions concerning: the choice of the form and of the substance of the leaflet presenting ARCHAEOMAP project; the WEBSITE and the LOGO (shape; colors; symbols). The definition of the « guidelines » for the reports drawing up is another field in the inside of which the association has given its contribution. Besides these « workpackages », preliminary actions for preparing the different meetings has been carried out. The drawing up of thematic presentations and of report is also involved. A list of the documents produced (scientific publications ; technical and administrative repors), related to the Carthaginian Site, has been composed. Contacts with Bodies and Institutes intervening on the site have been established. Among the others : l’Institut National du Patrimoine (INP), l’Agence de la Mise en Valeur du Patrimoine et de la Promotion Culturelle(AMVPPC), l’ Agence d’Aménagement et de Protection du Littoral (APAL), l’Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer (INSTM). On several occasions the site has been visited with the purpose of producing a photographic documentation illustrating the state of findings as well as the works for places restoration and improvement at the moment in progress.


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6.3 SF (Associazione Archeo-Antropologica Approfondimenti Interdisciplinari Operativi) : problems related to the administrative aspects of the project have been raised for reaffirming the same ones.

6.4 AS has talked about the importance of cooperation between seismologists and archaeologists as it is necessary to understand not only the past civilizations and the effects they

have produced on an place but also past disasters for preventing future possible ones in order that cultural heritage or ruins can be protected.

A passage over Tyr, one of the ten sites considered in ARCHAEOMAP has been done.

Tyr is a port for fishing, inhabited by a poor population part of which is Palestinian. The most important Lebanese place, it collects dense touristic flows.

It represent the last existing evidence of Phoenician presence: a lot of inventions of Phoenician paternity have been found there.

6.5 LB ha presented the activity that Fondazione Athena Sviluppo has carried out in the inside of project fulfillment: Athena has assigned to a qualified human resource the following activities: - Creation of a database of potential donors and its constant up to date maintenance; - Establishment of a communication plan aimed at contacting potential suppliers and adoption of the most efficient means for contributions collections; - Plan of communication implementation - Definition of an institutional activities programme aimed at increasing the number of contacts and potential contributions; - Implementation of this action plan.

6.6 XNP has talked about the coastal archaeological site of Catalogna facing on Mediterranean and put under ARCHAEOMAP project: open to visitors, it needs to be protected.

6.7 ST still stops a little over the archaeological park of the Egadi Islands in the Sicilian

Channel. In the Egadi area, the Soprintendenza del Mare of Sicily Region has installed a remote system to monitor wrecks found in the sea bed that, thanks to this tools, will remain in their original location. The telecontrol system is based on cameras positioned around the remains submerged in order to allow the public to admire the characteristics preventing at the same time from further depredations and effects produced by the aggressive tourism. From these cameras, via a cable, the images of the seabed with the remains come to the surface and from here, over the air are made available and visible to the those


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who could be interested in the same ones: a non invasive system that protecting and preserving cultural and natural heritage, do not preclude anything to the human eyes. This project, starting from the idea to investigate on the battle of Egadi of 241 BC which was the turning point for the Roman hegemony over the Mediterranean, aims at being the great "Archaeological Park of Egadi" which constitutes a genuine "Maritime Museum" flagship for western Sicily. The educative point of view has been taken into consideration too, especially that one directed towards diving clubs for their direct education and for putting instructors and guides in the condition to give the right instructions when they train practicing free divers: this could create a new way for practicing underwater tourism sustaining at the same time also its strength. A regulation of this kind of tourism in order to avoid archaeological places closure in view of their protection: a good education for approaching the underwater world; the creation of a restricted area with limited access; the creation of set courses could be the right way for protecting the cultural and natural heritage.

6.8 JM (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS). The importance covered by the

Darsena is historical rather than archaeological. In the inside of the museum a lot of findings have been collected. CNRS and ASPVM cooperate for the scientific and the archaeological study on the roadstead of Villefrance sur Mer. Within the framework of ARCHAEOMAP project, ASPVM has given its contribution presenting the rich sea heritage of Villefranche in its different components: historical, craft and archaeological. During Palermo and Gerona meeting, Eric Duliere has presented the association, its activities and an ex. of the large number of findings recovered in the roadstead. The study on findings has allowed to reconstruct the site history. CNR on the other side is involved in the study of the scientific aspects related to the roadstead under the oceanographic point of view: a presentation on the activities of scientific research has been made by Dominique Taillez during Palermo meeting. At the beginning there has been a problem of mailing with CNRS; fortunately it has been worked out.

6.9 MF (Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna): organization operating mainly with volunteers, it has issued a

lot of studies concerning activities carried out working in other sites. A safeguard plan to put in force over the medium-long period has been conceived.

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6.11 MC (European Commission) has traced the international institutional framework in the

inside of which cultural heritage protection has been allocated and supported:

Art 151 of EC Treaty

Structural Funds based on Art 158 & 159 of ECT.

Water Framework Directive and complementary measures including civil protection

EC « CAFE » Initiative (Clean Air for Europe): mentions the effects of air pollution on C.H.

Legislation on export of cultural goods and cooperation between institutions and museums (mainly movable C.H.)

Framework Programme 2 (ENv) in 1986 , FP3 (ENv), FP4(ENv), FP5(ENv), FP6 (SSP), FP7 (ENv including water, waste, air, soil, built environment, cultural heritage, technological assessment… ).

Topics of calls presently open under 7th FP have been put in evidence; topics on future calls have been cited: they will be surely mostly complementary or in line with FP5 & FP6 finished projects & with first finished projects FP7: probably from 2011 onwards taking account of previous project results

What has been stressed is that Cultural Heritage needs to be fully embedded in the overall EU Strategy for Sustainable Development. Scope and funding here below:

Research needs to further improve conservation & restoration practices and strengthen the involvement of end-users: owners & managers, conservators, restorers, SMEs, industry

More complementarity & coordination with other EU programmes/ topics : eg built environment & EU programmes e.g. FP7 NMP, IST , public-private opportunities for research & coordination (European Technology Platforms esp. ECTP (but so far no ETP embedding the movable C.H.) and Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) also taking into account the new EU “Recovery Plan” ,operational EU programmes: Education and Culture, Regional policy, External relations (Europe-Aid, Euromed...)

More complementarities & coordination with National, European and international frameworks or those more specialised ( Council of Europe, ESF/COST, EUREKA) and integrate better international dimension (MPC countries, also, Latin America, China, Japan, India, US etc) and worldwide organisations UNESCO & large agencies, ICCROM, ICOM, ICOMOS, Associations & NGOs (Europa Nostra,..) Contrib.to sp.Charters. (Annex L)

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• The direct free access to ARCHAEOMAP web site is not correct as documents there collected are confidential.

• Also free access to partners sites that have an allocation in ARCHAEOMAP web site is not correct.

• Every single partner has to give its contribution to scientific documentary production by drawing up reports on its intervention for project fulfillment. On the other side there are no reasons justifying EU contribution for benefit of those ones that do not give evidence of work carrying out.

• Every single document produced has to indicate: its author; the date of production; the typology of document it represent

• A deadline has been fixed: 15 January 2009

• It is necessary to update the contract introducing the amendments of Greece and Egypt. On the contrary, financing will be lost When cases of European sums not disbursed to a partner arise, an accounting amendment has to be done and two partners withdrawal must be officially declared supplying the EU with the reasons.

Here below some interventions expressions of problems emerged during project fulfillment

• FONDAZZJONI WIRT ARTNA has primary worked with the support of volunteers not remunerated. In these 2 latest months personnel has been employed with the task of producing documents requested

• ASSOCIAZIONE ARCHEO-ANTROPOLOGICA APPROFONDIMENTI INTERDISCIPLINARI OPERATIVI has no entries and present the same problem of the organization above as is not possible to misuse remunerated activities

• CNRS of Lebanon: not very big problems. Only some requests have been advanced for VISA application

• LIAISONS MEDITERRANEE : Some requests have been advanced for VISA application.

Financial problems have been put on the table of discussion:

• financial transfers from the EU are not directed towards the single persons that have carried on the work but are paid for benefit of the association they belong to.

• Moreover, it is difficult to sustain project in advance waiting for refunding when there is no cash available for this purpose.


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• EGYPT-DUA-SCA has put in evidence problems related to refunding: travel costs have been supported directly by the traveller that has paid out of one's own pocket. (the reason is due to the fact that the organization has not its own bank current account from which drawing financial resources for facing this kind of costs as requested by the EU)

• GIBRALTAR MUSEUM has reported document inadequacy.

• CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE has presented its difficulties:

• Administrative procedure is not easy to follow • A lot of time has to pass before receiving information from the

Applicant • Delays also registered in receiving sensitive documents from the

Applicant

ANNEXES ANNEX A

ANNEX B

ANNEX C

ANNEX D

ANNEX E

ANNEX F

ANNEX G

ANNEX H

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ANNEX K

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DISTRIBUTION LIST

Partic. no.

Participant name Participant org. short name

Country Person's Names Telephone / fax e-mail / web site/skype

1 Regione Siciliana Dipartimento Beni Culturali e Ambientali – Soprintendenza del Mare

SOPMARE Via delle Croci, 8 90139 – Palermo.

Italy Sebastiano TUSA Giacoma Brancato

+390916230638 / +390916230821 +393358203915

[email protected]; [email protected] [email protected] skype: gbrancato

2 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNESCO 7, Place de Fontenoy 75732 – Paris. www.unesco.org

INO Mustafa El Tayeb; Salvatore Giannino

+33(0)145684163 / +33 (0) 1 45 68 58 27 +33613269163 +393332321247

[email protected] www.unesco.org [email protected]

3 Comitato Pro Arsenale Borbonico

ARSENALE DI PALERMO Via Cristoforo Colombo 134; 90142 - Palermo

Italy Pietro Maniscalco; Salvatore Brucato

+393356102379 / +39091361309 +393483816670 / +39091361309

[email protected] [email protected]

4 Consorzio Universitario per l'Ateneo della Sicilia Occidentale e il Bacino del Mediterraneo

UNISOM Via Niso 15 91100 – Trapani www.unisom.it

Italy Roberto Bertini +390923437749 / +390923549860

[email protected]


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5 International Institute for the Study of Man - Istituto Internazionale per gli Studi dell' Uomo per l'Area Mediterranea

INTERINSTITUTE Piazza Verdi 6 90100 - Palermo

Italy Rita Cedrini Carmelo SEbbio

+393483361414 [email protected]; [email protected]

6 Association pour la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine Maritime de Villefranche-sur-Mer

ASPMV Pavillon Baudouin LEs Voutes de la Darse 06230 - Villefranche-Sur-Mer

France Bérangère Guers +33(0)493763720 [email protected];

7 Liaisons Mediterranée (ex Ministère Tunisien de la Culture)

TUNISIA 4, rue El Moez 1004 - Tunis

Tunis Ridha Tlili; Ouafa Ben Slimani

+ 21671570937 / + 216 71 56 36 10


8 Università Uninettuno - Università Telematica Internazionale

UNINETTUNO Corso Vittorio Emanuele II 39; 00186 – Roma.

Italy Maria Amata Garito; Emma Angelini

+39 06 6920761 + 335 5650284

[email protected]; [email protected];

9 Archeological Museum of Florina

AMF 8, Sidirodromikou Stathmou 53100 – Florina.

Greece Costas Sueref; + 30 2310 463281

10 Departement of Underwater Archeology -Supreme Council of Antiquities

EGYPT-DUA-SCA Fakhry Abdel-Nour Street, 4 D – Abbassia Cairo. www.grm.gov.eg

Egypt Alaa El-Din Mahrous; Salwa Mahmoud Abd-El-Meguid

+203 522 6242 [email protected]


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11 Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya

AMC Passeig de Santa Madrona 39 08038 – Barcelona.

Spain Xavier Nieto Gustau Vivar

+ 34972204637 www.museumaritimbarcelona.org [email protected]; [email protected];

12 Fondazione Athena Sviluppo ATHENA Corso Venezia 18 20121 – Milano.

Italy Giampaolo Natoli; +390115694451 [email protected]

13 Associazione Archeo-Antropologica Approfondimenti Interdisciplinari Operativi

AAA.AIO’ Via Vincenzo Sulis, 43 09124 – Cagliari.

Italy Sergio Frau;

+390655301809 [email protected]

14 Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

CNRS 3, rue Michel-Ange 75794 – Paris.

France JEAN MASCLE Annelise Garnier

+33 (0)4 9376 3745 Fax +33 (0)4 93763740

www.dr20.cnrs.fr [email protected], [email protected]

[email protected]


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15 Groupe de Recherche en Archeologie Navale

GRAN Service Historique de la Défense, Passage de la Corderie 83100 – Toulon.

France MAX GUEROUT Anne Joyard

+33 (0)4 6735 9201 +33 (0)4 6735 9201

www.archeonavale.org [email protected] [email protected]

16 Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna WIRT ARTNA Notre Dame Gate, St. Edward's Road CSP 08 – Vittoriosa.

Malta Mario Farrugia; Jonathan Borg

+356 21 800992


17 Gibraltar Museum GIBRALTAR 18-20 Bomb House Lane www.gib.gi/museum

Gibraltar Darren Fa Tel. +(350)74289 Fax +(350)79158

Email: [email protected]

18 CNRS OF LEBANON LEBANON Sports City Boulevard, Bir Hassan 11072260 – Beirut.

Lebanon Alexandre Sursock Ph : +9614-981885 Fax:+9614-981886

[email protected]

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