Changes Project

The second Work Package 4 workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing took place yesterday.

Thanks to the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence, the Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH and all the partners involved.

📌Second Work Package 4 workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing
📆Monday, 10 August 2026
⏱️11:00–13:00 EEST
📍online
🔗https://tinyurl.com/4awa888r

As part of the CHANGES Project, our partner, the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence (ECoE) and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies - FORTH of the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, organized the second Work Package 4 workshop on Earth Observation and Remote Sensing, held online on Monday, 10 August 2026 (11:00–13:00 EEST).

The workshop forms part of WP4's activity on the use of optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) data for landscape studies, and serves as a direct dissemination event: its aim is to share ongoing research findings with the academic community and project stakeholders, fostering the exchange of ideas and collaboration between partner institutions. As such, it also supports capacity building and technology transfer across all academic levels, from undergraduate and graduate students to PhD candidates and faculty members involved in the consortium.

CHANGES Project: joined event of dissemination at Iuvanum and at Novae during a joined Summer School with students from Chieti, Napoli, Molise and Warsaw Universities. For a wider dissemination in hybrid mode, concerning the results of CHANGES in progress
Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence
Archeologia-uda Università Chieti

🎯We're glad to share a new publication connected to the CHANGES project: "𝘽𝙮𝙯𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝘾𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙚: 𝘼 𝙂𝙚𝙤-𝙎𝙥𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝘼𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙨," now out in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.

✅The study examines three Middle Byzantine fortifications in the Kissamos region of northwest Crete (Polyrrhenia, Malathyros, and Rokka), asking how they sat within their landscape. Using GIS, remote sensing, and historical sources, the authors explore their relationship to farmland, grazing land, coastal access, and the routes that connected them, showing that these sites worked less as isolated strongholds and more as an interconnected system that balanced defense with resource management and communication.

🤝Congratulations to the authors, Konstantinos Roussos, Mahmoud Mardini, and Maria Cristina Salvi, on this contribution.
The research was carried out at the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence under the EXCELSIOR project, and we're proud that it also acknowledges the CHANGES project and its mission of learning from the past for a better awareness of environmental and social change in antiquity.

🔗The paper will be open access soon. In the meantime, it's free to read and download for the next 50 days here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X26003822?dgcid=coauthor

Climate resilience is no longer an option but an urgent necessity

🤝Congratulation to our colleague from the PCMA UW
🔸Dr Piotr Zakrzewski🔸

📣W dniach 22-24 czerwca odbyła się konferencja "Changes - Past Climate Changes, Future Lesson: Methodology, Education, Strategies" zorganizowana przez Uniwersytet Warszawski we współpracy z projektem CHANGES.

📖Wziął w niej udział nasz kolega z CAŚ UW🔸dr Piotr Zakrzewski🔸 , który wygłosił referat na temat długoterminowej ewolucji skarpy naddunajskiej przy obozie legionowym w Novae oraz jej wpływ na stanowisko od okresu rzymskiego, aż po czasy współczesne.

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📣 From 22 to 24th June took place the conference "Changes – Past Climate Changes, Future Lessons: Methodology, Education, Strategies". Organized by the University of Warsaw in collaboration with the CHANGES Project.

📖Our colleague from the PCMA UW🔸Dr Piotr Zakrzewski🔸 delivered a presentation about an exploration of the long-term evolution of the Danube escarpment at the legionary fortress of Novae and its impact on the site from the Roman period to the present day.

Congrats! 👏

📸Fot. K. Narloch

Uniwersytet Warszawski Project

📸Take a look at the photos taken during the conference:

🔴𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬, 𝐅𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬: 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐞𝐬

The conference took place at the University of Warsaw, Poland.

📅22–24 June 2026

🎯Organised by the University of Warsaw in collaboration with the CHANGES consortium, the conference brought together project partners, researchers, students, PhD candidates and early-career scholars to present and discuss research carried out under WP2 — Technologies and Micro-analysis.
👉The event provided an important platform for sharing scientific results, strengthening collaboration across the consortium, and contributing to the publication of the project’s conference proceedings.

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