Cultural Heritage Enhancement in the Region of Maghreb. Integrated approach to the Mediterranean prehistoric cultural heritage: the case of Maghreb.

Project Information

C.H.E.R.M.

Grant agreement ID: 31724

Start date 1 October 2006

End date 31 December 2008

Funded under

• Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Total cost € 79 000,00

EU contribution € 79 000,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF ROME "LA SAPIENZA"
Italy

Objective

Northwestern Africa (Maghreb) represents one of the areas of major interest for the understanding of cultural similarities within the Euro-Mediterranean Region. The proposed Project focuses on the preservation of the prehistoric cultural heritage of the Region. This heritage has suffered a lot from negligence in conservation and, in the Maghreb, there are serious risks due to the fast development of the territory, in particular along the coasts, which could delete forever a great patrimony, helpful in clarifying important episodes in the reconstruction of the evolutionary biology and culture of humanity in the Pleistocene era.

The Project's original value is in defending local heritage through new technologies (GIS, µ-CT data/images): at the basis of the conservation of the heritage there is the necessity of a logic and organized database to understand what there is, where and how to intervene. The case of C.H.E.R.M puts together several Euro-Mediterranean Partners sub-divided into three thematic working groups: the Archaeo-topographical (ARCHAEO-GIS) team, the Anthropo-Biological (BIO-ARCHIVE) team and the Palaeoecological (PALAEO-ENVIRON) team.

The co-ordinator will lead different Partners from Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy, France, England, Germany, Malta and Gibraltar through three micro-scale thematic meetings of experts, where to compare and discuss a common approach to the study of the antiquities through the use of new technologies (GIS, µ-CT data/images). The main output of the Project is the development of guidelines and a codebook for GIS data collection and analysis. This Project combines multidisciplinary, state-of-the art research, with local knowledge and aims at providing a co-operative package that will enable us to better understand and protect a unique element of global heritage significance.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › biological sciences › evolutionary biology
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › palaeontology › paleoecology
• social sciences › sociology › anthropology › physical anthropology

Programme(s)

• FP6-INCO - Specific measures in support of international cooperation: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Topic(s)

• INCO-2002-B2.1 - Materials, artifacts, monuments and sites: new technologies and characterisation

Call for proposal

FP6-2002-INCO-MPC/SSA-2
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Funding Scheme

SSA - Specific Support Action

Coordinator

UNIVERSITY OF ROME "LA SAPIENZA"

• Address: Piazzale aldo moro 5 ; Rome ; Italy
• EU contribution: € 0,00

Participants (1)

UNIVERSITÉ IBN TOFAIL DE KENITRA

Morocco

• EU contribution: € 0,00
• Address: 120 rue ahmed bou ghaba, bir rami est ; Kénitra