Expected activities

• Participation in the selection of the technical solution of the database (in collaboration with the management and members of WG1, 3 and 4).
• Implementation of the technical solution for data collection (bibliographic records), checking and sorting of records and their storage in the database.
• Communication with members of WG1, 3 and 4, solving subject and technical problems in the creation of bibliographic records.
• The activities are intended to be carried out entirely on an online, remote basis.

Eligibility

• Keen interest in PoTaRCh, CA22155 membership welcomed.
• Basic IT skills, experience with bibliographic data harvesting and storage desirable.
• Proficiency in academic English.

Relation of VM grant to MoU objectives and deliverables

• objectives RC2, RC3, CB2, CB5, CB6
• deliverables Platform sharing knowledge (WG1), Catalogue database of EU PoTaRCh (WG1 + WG3, WG4)

Technical information

• Grant duration: May to September 2024
• Maximum support to be requested: 1500 €

Deadline of the application: 31st of May

Contacts

• coordinator: dr Katja Tikka, katja.tikka@helsinki.fi; https://potarch.eu/
• WG1 leader: Jakob Starlander, jakob.starlander@unibe.ch
• WG1 co-leader: Jiří Woitsch, woitsch@eu.cas.cz

Expected activities

• To conduct literature research useful to develop protocols an/or write a review for the characterization of the PoTaRch materials.

Technical information

• Grant duration: May to September 2024
• Maximum support to be requested: 1500 €

Deadline of the application: 31st of May

Contacts

• coordinator: dr Katja Tikka, katja.tikka@helsinki.fi; https://potarch.eu/
• WG2 leader: Erika Ribechini, erika.ribechini@unipi.it
• WG2 co-leader: Rodica Ion, rodica.ion@icechim.ro

About

• The GIS will eventually include geographical information on archaeological sites and place names related to PoTaRCh production. The GIS will eventually enable the working group and the action to identify gaps of research, european patterns of PoTaRCh production as well as form the basis for state-of-the-art papers on distribution and chronologiy of PoTaRCh sites.

Expected activities

• Development of a technical solution of a GIS, in collaboration with the management and members of WG 3, 1, and 4.
• Development of a data collection protocol: published geographical and chronological information on records of archaeological sites.
• Communication with members of WG 3, but also other WG-members, to tackle subject and technical problems.
• The activities are intended to be carried out entirely on an online, remote basis.

Eligibility

• Keen interest in PoTaRCh, CA22155 membership welcomed.
• MS-Excel, MS-Access, and GIS skills, experience with extracting information from published papers desirable.
• Proficiency in academic English.
• Relation of VM grant to MoU objectives and deliverables: Task T3.1 „Compile existing knowledge in databases“

Relation of VM grant to MoU objectives and deliverables

• objectives RC2, RC3, CB2, CB5, CB6
• deliverables Platform sharing knowledge (WG1), Catalogue database of EU PoTaRCh (WG1 + WG3, WG4)

Technical information

• Grant duration: May to September 2024
• Maximum support to be requested: 1500 €

Deadline of the application: 31st of May

Contacts

• coordinator: dr Katja Tikka, katja.tikka@helsinki.fi; https://potarch.eu/
• WG3 leader: Oliver Nelle,  oliver.nelle@rps.bwl.de
• WG3 co-leader: Koen Deforce, koen.deforce@ugent.be

• Deadline for applications to be submitted: applications will be evaluated in order of arrival and will be accepted until 30-July-2024
• Notification of application outcome: maximum 15 days after application
• Period accepted for the conference: 19-February-2024; 30-September-2024
• Submittal report and financial claim: 30 days from the completion of the conference at latest
  15 October-2024

• Deadline for ITC grant applications to be submitted: applications will be evaluated in order of arrival and will be accepted until 30-June-2024 or until the budget is still available.
• Notification of application outcome: maximum 30 days after application
• Period accepted for the conference: ending the latest 30-September-2024
• Submittal report and financial claim: 30 days from the completion of the conference at latest 15-October-2024

• Application deadline: 30 June 2024 or until the budget is still available. 
• 1st Grant Period. The amount of 1500 euros. 
• Applications will be evaluated in order of arrival. 
• Notification of application outcome: maximum 30 days after previously mentioned date. 
• Submittal report and financial claim: 30 days from the completion of the conference at latest 30-September-2024
• For call details and how to apply click here
• coordinator: dr Katja Tikka, katja.tikka@helsinki.fi;

About

• Purpose of Training School: The training school includes a program of multi-disciplinary studies within 3 days. The school will be held at Poznan University of Life Sciences and is designed to train graduated students (master’s degree), PhD students, post-docs, and professionals with interests in the chemical characterisation of resins, tar and pitch.
• Aim: The school aims at providing students from different educational backgrounds (graduates in the fields of technical-scientific and humanistic subjects) the detailed information on the instrumentation and an overview of the potentialities of different instrumental approaches to characterise resins, tar and pitch. The school provides practical lessons to transmit knowledge.
• The student will have access to the following instrumentation present at Poznań University of Life Sciences:
  • Resistance oven for applied pyrolysis and carbonization processes of lignocellulosic materials
  • Gas chromatograph coupled with a mass detector (GC/MS) (Trace 1300 GC ISQ Single
  • Quadrupole MS by Thermo-Finnigan)
  • Thermobalance LabsysTM TG, TG-DTA, TG-DSC (Setaram)
  • FTIR spectrophotometer with ATR Alpha-E module (Brucker with OPUS 7.0 software)
• Students will also visit the Archaeological Museum in Biskupin, which contains rich traces of settlement from the Stone Age to the Early Middle Ages, including the remains of a defensive settlement from the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. At the Archaeological Museum in Biskupin, as part of experimental archaeology, tar and pitch are obtained using the two-pot method.

Technical information

• Who can apply: Graduated students (Master’s degree), PhD students
• Application: via link
• Selection of candidates: Base on COST inclusiveness policy:
  • Geographicalspread
  • Involving members from Inclusiveness Target Countries (ITCs) and Young Researchers (YR)
  • Genderbalance

Period: 11-13 September 2024

Application Deadline : 15 July 2024

Event venue

• Poznan University of Life Sciences;
  Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology Department of Chemical Wood Technology
  Wojska Polskiego 38/42;
  60625 Poznan;
  Poland
  MAP

Contacts

• Leader of WG2: Erika Ribechini erika.ribechini@unipi.it
• Vice Chair CA22155: Jeannette J. Lucejko jeannette.lucejko@unipi.it
• Local Organiser: Magdalena Zborowska magdalena.zborowska@up.poznan.pl