University of Trento (UniTN), founded in 1962, is an international medium-sized University open to people, ideas, and new knowledge, which responsibly takes on the great challenges posed by society and by the local area and participates in their development. UniTN is constantly ranked among the best Italian Universities: as first in the national ranking of Censis (medium-sized institutions) compiled for la Repubblica 2021/2022. UniTN continuously strives for improvement and constantly promotes freedom of research and growth of talent to give young people the best possible opportunities. With more than 16,000 students, about 600 professors and researchers and the same number of technical and administrative staff, the University provides an ideal environment for study and research. UniTN has a wide experience in managing EU grants with 136 projects under H2020 (of which 33 MSCA-IF). The LaBAAF (“Bagolini” Laboratory: Archaeology, Archaeometry, Photography) belongs to Department of Humanities of UniTN, which has been recognised in 2018 as one of the few excellence centres in Italy in the domain of the scientific research area 10 (Antiquities, Philological-literary and Historical-artistic sciences) by the Italian Ministry for Education and University. The mission of the LaBAAF is to promote advanced prehistoric, classical, and medieval archaeological research. Its special interests are oriented to develop studies in methodological aspects, land use and resources management and formation processes. A special focus is dedicated to the study of human artefacts by combining traditional methodologies (such as typology, technology, raw material provenance, use wear analysis) and archaeometry (SEM and digital microscopy, FTIR, XRF) thanks to the collaboration with the Department of Industrial Engineering of UniTN. The lab team includes six lecturers and researchers, three laboratory technicians (all of them PhD), ca. ten PhD students and post-doc researchers and tens of graduate and undergrad students, whose expertise and interests cover the full range of archaeological chronologies (from Palaeolithic to post-Medieval times) and methods (from field archaeology to remote detection and GIS application, material science, archaeometry, geoarchaeology, etc.), with ongoing projects in Italy and abroad, and a special interest for the evolution of the land and of human-environment relationships for the last 20,000 years within the Alpine space. Due to its geographic location and recent history, the LaBAAF team has developed specific skills in land and landscape archaeology, land use (in particular for mountain environment) and methodology of archaeological survey, excavations and recording
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is a competitive, high quality, socially committed and internationally oriented university located in Brussels. VUB offers high quality education to more than 17,000 students on three main campuses (humanities, sciences & engineering, health, photonics). The VUB contributes to Brussels being an Innovation Leader whose performance increases with time and scoring high on the number of scientific co-publications. Thanks to this expertise, the VUB is the ideal partner for prestigious research with an outlook on Europe and the world. The university therefore is an avid participant in European projects, and in particular in Horizon-projects. There are more than 160 running research projects at VUB which are (co-)funded by the European Union, 20% of which are coordinated by VUB. The VUB is partner of the EUTOPIA alliance of European Universities Transforming to an Open Inclusive Academy which provides mobility and research opportunities. The Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry Research Group focusses on the use of proxies (e.g. isotopes ratio, elemental concentrations) to answer questions in a wide range of research areas, including bioarchaeology. The Brussels Bioarchaeology Lab (BB-LAB) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), Belgium, regroups researchers focussing on the study of human, animal and plant remains from archaeological contexts using a wide range of methods going from isotope geochemistry and spatial modelling to archaeobotany and osteoarchaeology. The objective is to become a leading Belgian and European research group in archaeological sciences with a particular focus on the study of past population dynamics, migration and landscape use. To characterise them, innovative analytical procedures are continuously being developed using the facilities available at the VUB and its partner universities.
The University of Ottawa is a public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is a bilingual (French-English), competitive, diverse, and internationally oriented university. The University of Ottawa features more than 400 programs with more than 40,000 students including close to 7,000 graduate students. The university is a research powerhouse in Canada and member of the U15. The SAiVE Laboratory: Spatio-temporal Analytics of isotopes Variations in the Environment, was created by Dr. Clement P. Bataille in 2017 as part of the department of Earth and Environmental Sciences. The SAiVE lab has become a leader in developing new isotopic tools for provenance applications. Over the last few years, the SAiVE lab has established international collaborations with multiple laboratories to develop isotope applications in ecology, paleoecology, hydrology, and archaeology. Those collaborations include multiple successful grants and projects with European researchers including collaboration for insect migration ecology with Gerard Talavera (CSIC, Barcelona, Spain) and Niclas Backstrom (Uppsala University, Sweden) or for archaeology with Rozenn Colleter (INRAP, Rennes, France), and Klervia Jaouen (GET, Toulouse, France).