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CERAMED Project - Partners
The CERAMED consortium includes a balanced blend of Research Institutions,
Higher Education establishments and SME's engaged in the study,
reproduction and modern production of archaeological or traditional
ceramics. It comprises six groups from five different countries
(2 EU and 3 MPC's) covering the Mediterranean from west to east.
Care has been taken to contact and involve from the beginning major
Museum Shop managers as end users in order to ensure that the scientific
and technological research will be grounded in the market realities.
It has been set up with an interdisciplinary approach in mind with
participants from several fields (materials scientists, ceramic
technologists, archaeologists, craftsmen).
The partners' expertise covers all major analytical techniques
applicable to the identification of materials, the recovery of ceramic
technologies, the reproduction of ancient ceramics as well as cultural
market issues.
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Partner 1
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NHRF Institute of Theoretical
and Physical Chemistry - The National Hellenic Research Foundation
(Athens, Greece)
This participant is responsible for the co-ordination tasks,
and relations with the European Commission WP0-Coordination.
It will play a major role in WP1-Identification and WP3-Improvement
(development of non destructive spectroscopy methodologies
for the characterization of body and surface materials, development
of alternatives to lead based glazes)
Website URL: http://www.eie.gr/tpci/english/index-en.htm
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Partner 2
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ERAUB Equip de Recerca
Arqueom?trica de la Universitat de Barcelona - Universitat
de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
This participant will be responsible for the co-ordination
of WP1-Identification and will contribute significantly to
WP2-Recovery and WP4-Valorization, Dissemination, Marketing
(Provenance and technology of archaeological materials including
analytical study and experimentation both with raw materials
and artefacts, archaeological documentation and experimental
reproduction of classic terra sigillata and majolica artefacts)
Website URL: http://www.ub.es/prehist/eraub/
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Partner 3
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MCTRI Materials Science
Institute - Marmara Research Center - TUBITAK (Istanbul, Turkey)
This participant will be responsible for the co-ordination
WP3-Improvement . It will play a major role in WP2-Recovery
and WP4-Valorization, Dissemination, Marketing, archaeological
and technological documentation and experimental reproduction
of Iznik ceramics, lead substitution in body and/or surface
of ceramics)
Website URL: http://www.mam.gov.tr/english/mctri/about/brief.html
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Partner 4
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QR/JO The Queen Rania’s
Institute for Sustainable Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management
- The Hashemite University (Amman, Jordan)
This participant will be responsible for the co-ordination
of WP4-Valorization, Dissemination, Marketing and will make
important contributions to WP1-Identification and WP2-Recovery
(archaeological and ethnoarchaeological documentation and
experimental reproduction of Nabataean ceramic artefacts)
Website URL:
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Partner 5
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MI Faculté des
Lettres et Sciences Humaines - Université Mohammed
I (Oujda, Morocco)
This participant will make an important contribution to WP1-Identification
and WP4-Valorization, Dissemination, Marketing (study of traditional
pottery production, pottery making local traditions, use of
clays and experimental work on traditional techniques)
Website URL:
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Partner 6
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THETIS Thetis Authentics
Ltd (Athens, Greece) is a company specialising in the
technologically authentic reproduction of ceramics based on
ancient manufacturing techniques and materials.
This participant will be responsible for the co-ordination
of WP2-Recovery and will make important contributions to WP1-Identification
and WP4-Valorization, Dissemination, Marketing (technology
of archaeological ceramics, especially attic black and red
''glaze'', including analytical study and experimentation,
full scale reproduction facilities, archaeological and technological
documentation)
Website URL: http://www.thetis.gr
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All six partners are well qualified to contribute to WP4-Valorization,
Dissemination, Marketing and will do so through their links with
the major museums and national archaeological departments or services
in the five countries involved. In addition partners 2, 3, 4, 5
and 6 have close links with or are actively involved in projects
to revitalize ancient or traditional techniques with special emphasis
on quality and authenticity.
The skills that the partners bring to CERAMED are complementary
in the sense that there is no significant overlap of experimental
facilities and specialization. On the other hand, the sum total
of the facilities and know-how of the partners provides a unique
instrument to understand the interplay between physics, geology,
technology, culture and history that underlies ancient ceramic production.
This understanding will be put to the test by the actual reproduction
experiments and will allow craftsmen to bring it back to life and
to the market. Any team that has only limited experience in one
aspect of the research or limited access to experimental facilities
will be fully integrated into the project via its participation
in many of the work packages and tasks. Through collaboration in
tasks and through the organisation and attendance at meetings, all
participants will be integrated and will gain experience in aspects
of the project in which they may be lacking. It is intended to hold
the plenary conference, at the completion of the project, in a Mediterranean
Partner Country in order to encourage and publicize this work in
the region of interest for the EU INCO-MED collaboration programme.
All participants in CERAMED have already collaborated, or have
had contact, with at least one other in the Consortium. Partners
2 and 5 have actively collaborated in one ethnoarchaeological project
in Morocco on the use of clay in traditional ceramics and architecture.
They have also been involved in archaeological fieldwork. Partners
2 and 6 have collaborated since a long time ago in technological
studies of ancient ceramic glosses by SEM. Partner 1 is engaged
in a bilateral collaboration on archaeological ceramics with partner
3 and on the development and operation of a web-based information
service on Archaeological Science with Partner 6. Partner 1 has
also ongoing research programmes on the Archaeology of Jordan and
the Near East.
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