Research Projects
COASTLINE
Coastal Zone Environment and Geo-Sciences
2024-2027
COASTLINE-Project: 101130576
Coastal Zone Environment and Geo-Sciences
MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022 (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01)
Duration: 01/01/2024-31/12/2027
Onassis Business History, 1975-2005
Onassis Business History, 1975-2005
2024-2027
The aim of the research project is to author a volume on Onassis Business History after the death of Aristotle Onassis, during the period from 1975 to 2005.
TOPIO
Towards Democratic Landscape observation through Geoinformatics and Public Participation
2023-2027
Coordination: IMS/FORTH, Dr. Dimitrios Alexakis
Duration: 01/12/2023 - 30/11/2027
Total budget: 915.000 Euro
Onassis Business History, 1924-1975
Onassis Business History, 1924-1975 and Onassis Archive
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.
CITYSONIC
Hearing the City: Sound, Noise and Modernity in Greece and the Balkans during the short 20th c.
2025-2028
Principal Investigator: Andreas Lyberatos
AI SPACE HERITAGE
Advancing Artificial Intelligence and 5 Dimensional Space Based Methodologies for Monitoring Cultural Heritage
2025-2027
The project applies a pioneering 5D analytical framework, combining multiple streams of Earth Observation data with cutting-edge AI algorithms, enabling a more comprehensive interpretation of archaeological landscapes.
Research on the History of Fisheries
2025-2026
The aim of the research project is to create a digital database on fisheries and marine products through the systematic indexing of the issues of the Greek Government Gazette (FEK) for the period 1833–1940.
Postdoctoral Research Project: Nikos E. Alevyzakis
Funded by: IMS/ FORTH
Από τη θεατρική φιλαναγνωσία στην σύγχρονη θεατρική συγγραφική πρακτική και εκδοτική παραγωγή
2025-2026
ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ
ΔΗΜΙΟΥΡΓΙΚΗ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ-ΕΠΙΧΟΡΗΓΗΣΕΙΣ ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΟΥ ΠΟΛΙΤΙΣΜΟΥ 2025
Photographing Antiquity
Photography as an intercultural mediator in multimedia production of symbolic and performative antiquity representations
2025-2027
Principal Investigator: Marianna Karali
Host Institution: IMS/FORTH
HiSGM
Historic Ship Graffiti on Greek Monuments
2024-2025
Ship Graffiti (SG) as cultural evidence of the Aegean Maritime History: Development of an innovative technological project for ship graffiti of sailing ships of the early modern period (18th - 19th centuries) on Greek monuments.
MCH-EsMed
How the middle class housed itself in the Eastern Mediterranean
2024-2029
Principal Investigator: Konstantina Kalfa
Funded by: European Research Council - Starting Grant 2024 (Grant Agreement 101164009)
Start date: 1 December 2024, End date: 30 November 2029
Overall budget: € 1,499,913
Hosted by: Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
STASH
Shadow Trade: Unraveling Maritime Smuggling Between the Russian and Ottoman Empires (1853-1914)
2024-2029
Principal Investigator: Anna (Ganna) Sydorenko
Funding body: European Research Council (Starting Grant 2024, Project ID 101166144)
Start date: 1 December 2024, End date: 30 November 2029
Total Budget: € 1,490,250
Host Institution: IMS-FORTH
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
MigraMedia
Migration Narratives in European Media: Teaching, Learning, and Reflecting
2023-2026
Project Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Markus Heide, Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
https://www.uni-hildesheim.de/fb3/institute/institut-fuer-englische-sprache-und-literatur/team/markus-heide/
IMS Coordinator
Panayiota Mini, Institute for Mediterranean Studies & University of Crete
PhylProGramm
Phylogenies probing Grammar. Exploring morphosyntax at different scales of language change
2023-2028
Principal Investigator: Elena Anagnostopoulou
Funding Body: European Research Council (Advanced Grant 2022, Grant Agreement 101096554)
Starting Date: 1 October 2023, End Date: 30 September 2028
Total Budget: € 2,499,925
Host Institution: IMS-FORTΗ
PortADa
Port Arrivals Data. Automatic data collection for a large-scale comparative history of 19th century shipping: a Digital Humanities approach to maritime heritage
2023-2027
Principal Investigator: Apostolos Delis
Funding Body: MSCA Staff Exchanges 2022
Programme: HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01
Coordinator Partner: University of Barcelona
Starting Date: 1 November 2023, End Date: 31 October 2027
Total Budget: € 644.000
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