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The National Research Council (CNR) is the greatest research public body of Italy; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and of its applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social development of the Country.

CNR is distributed all over Italy through a network of institutes aiming at promoting a wide diffusion of its competences throughout the national territory and at facilitating contacts and cooperation with local firms and organizations. CNR has more than 8200 employees of whom more than 4 thousand researchers active in almost 100 Institutes, working in the main fields of scientific and humanistic research. In addition to these ones there are more than 3000 junior scientists completing their training at CNR. This patrimony of human resources, ideas and knowledge makes CNR, in terms of publications, one of the major contributors to Italian scientific production, with a respected position in the international context.

The Institute for Archaeological and Monumental Heritage IBAM- CNR is a multidisciplinary research institute with highly expertise in the specialized skills in the fields of knowledge, documentation, diagnosis, preservation, value enhancement, management, enjoyment and communication of the archaeological and monumental heritage. These skills are expressed through the Institute's multidisciplinary team that includes archaeologists, historians, architects, geologists, engineers, chemists, physicists and ICT specialists. IBAM expresses its expertise through the development, testing and application of methodological investigations with activities related to the territory landscape in Italy (center, south and Sicily) and in Turkey, Crete, Spain, Iraq, Peru, etc. and Albania and elsewhere.

Within the macro areas major themes "Settlements and territory", "The artifact as source for material culture" and, finally, "Diagnostic for the knowledge, preservation and enjoyment of cultural heritage", the Institute has set up research contracts projects on which was conveyed draw together the activities of its researchers.

The research is focused on: Prehistoric, Classical, Medieval and Industrial Archaeology; Landscape Archaeology, Ancient Topography; Geophysics; Geology; Virtual Archaeology and Restoration; Satellite and Aerial Remote Sensing; Archaeometry; Chemistry; Information Technologies and GIS.

The research activities are focused on:

·         Methodologies for the analysis of settlements, landscape and environment and transformations of landscapes in ancient and Medieval times;

·         Multidisciplinary studies in archeology, in a Mediterranean perspective, with particular reference to southern Italy and Sicily;

·         Methodologies aimed at understanding, diagnosis and intervention for the preservation, restoration and communication of archaeological heritage (sites and monuments) 

·         Innovative methodologies for the knowledge of ancient landscape. 

The National Research Council (CNR) is the greatest research public body of Italy; its duty is to carry out, promote, spread, transfer and improve research activities in the main sectors of knowledge growth and of its applications for the scientific, technological, economic and social development of the Country.

CNR is distributed all over Italy through a network of institutes aiming at promoting a wide diffusion of its competences throughout the national territory and at facilitating contacts and cooperation with local firms and organizations. CNR has more than 8200 employees of whom more than 4 thousand researchers active in almost 100 Institutes, working in the main fields of scientific and humanistic research. In addition to these ones there are more than 3000 junior scientists completing their training at CNR. This patrimony of human resources, ideas and knowledge makes CNR, in terms of publications, one of the major contributors to Italian scientific production, with a respected position in the international context.

The Institute for Archaeological and Monumental Heritage IBAM- CNR is a multidisciplinary research institute with highly expertise in the specialized skills in the fields of knowledge, documentation, diagnosis, preservation, value enhancement, management, enjoyment and communication of the archaeological and monumental heritage. These skills are expressed through the Institute's multidisciplinary team that includes archaeologists, historians, architects, geologists, engineers, chemists, physicists and ICT specialists. IBAM expresses its expertise through the development, testing and application of methodological investigations with activities related to the territory landscape in Italy (center, south and Sicily) and in Turkey, Crete, Spain, Iraq, Peru, etc. and Albania and elsewhere.

Within the macro areas major themes "Settlements and territory", "The artifact as source for material culture" and, finally, "Diagnostic for the knowledge, preservation and enjoyment of cultural heritage", the Institute has set up research contracts projects on which was conveyed draw together the activities of its researchers.

The research is focused on: Prehistoric, Classical, Medieval and Industrial Archaeology; Landscape Archaeology, Ancient Topography; Geophysics; Geology; Virtual Archaeology and Restoration; Satellite and Aerial Remote Sensing; Archaeometry; Chemistry; Information Technologies and GIS.

The research activities are focused on:

·         Methodologies for the analysis of settlements, landscape and environment and transformations of landscapes in ancient and Medieval times;

·         Multidisciplinary studies in archeology, in a Mediterranean perspective, with particular reference to southern Italy and Sicily;

·         Methodologies aimed at understanding, diagnosis and intervention for the preservation, restoration and communication of archaeological heritage (sites and monuments);

·         Innovative methodologies for the knowledge of ancient landscape. 

The University of Bologna (UniBo) has been recognized as the oldest university in the western world, and as the venue where, on 19 June 1999, took place the meeting among ministers of higher education from 29 European countries to sign the Declaration of Bologna, the gateway of the process aiming to harmonize higher education systems across Europe known as the Bologna Process.

Its organization has been shaped, since 1995, in a Multicampus structure, so divided into 11 faculties, 33 research departments as well as 5 operating branches (Bologna, Cesena, Forlì, Ravenna and Rimini), aiming to provide 143 first-level degree courses, 98 specialized degree courses and 9 European specialization courses; post-graduate studies have been organized trough 14 Doctoral Schools, with more than 300 graduate-level programs and approximately 1,800 PhD students. Thus UniBo may be considered as one of the largest in the country as well as ranked among its first top level universities.

The University of Bologna is one of the most proactive Italian universities both in research and technology transfer, at least since 2004: at the national level, the University ranks second for competitive research funding from the Italian Government, whereas, at the European one, it has successfully participated in FP6 with a total of 114 projects (in 14 projects as coordinator) funded by the European Commission in all its specific programmes. In FP7 our University has presented over 1100 projects achieving total financial aid of about 73 million Euros with 228 funded projects - acting as coordinator in 44 of them. For the Theme 8 - “Socioeconomic sciences and Humanities” (SSH) of the Cooperation programme, the University has been involved in 10 projects (in 2 as coordinator).