Grants for courses

If you're interested in taking part in one of the recently advertised Vesuvian archaeology courses (or indeed other classical courses), you may find it worth checking if you are eligible for a grant from the generous Classical Association.

The Classical Association awards in the region of £60,000 each year to classical projects and conferences, mainly in the UK. The Association will consider applications for:

Subventions to summer schools and to institutions offering extra-mural courses in Greek, Latin and Classical Civilisation.

Bursaries for teachers attending courses abroad, notably the British School at Athens Easter Course.

Support of Greek and Latin reading competitions arranged by CA branches.

Support of regional Greek or Roman days or of school conferences.


More information here.

Andante Archaeology award

News from Andante Travel:

Invitation for Applications for The ANDANTE TRAVELS ARCHAEOLOGY AWARD 2012

Do you have an archaeological project in need of funds? Some post excavation work requiring specialists? A field survey lacking vital equipment? An excavation without tools? Or indeed almost any sort of exciting project, research, education or publication based?

Applications are being invited for the annual award of £2000 for an archaeological project of any professional nature anywhere in the world.

Andante Travels is a company owned and run by people who have trained and worked as archaeologists, and the mission of our company is to provide programmes of the highest academic integrity which are also relaxed and enjoyable holidays. We want everyone to discover what an exciting interest archaeology can be, whether pursued half way round the world, or in one’s own back garden.

The purpose of this award is to give something back from our own archaeologically-based business, and to heighten awareness of individual projects of very different natures.

Past Winners have been:

Volubilis, Morocco
- £2000 towards website development and signage on site

Kerkenes Dag, Turkey
– £2000 towards geophysical survey equipment

Stonehenge Riverside Project
- £2000 towards fees for a site supervisor

Via Consolare Project in Pompeii
- £2000 towards equipment for excavation

Lamanai Maya site in jungle, Belize
- £2000 towards training a local person to be a pottery conservator

Smaller donations have been made to:

Nola site in Italy (victim of an ealier eruption of Vesuvius during the Bronze Age, with similar effects in terms of conservation problems)

Roman Glass-making project near Salisbury

The application process is simple. Write your proposal on a single side of A4 paper giving an outline of the project, and what the funds might be used for and email it to Alex Casey at alex@andantetravels.co.uk

Fame and fortune awaits you!
The Andante award will be presented at Current Archaeology’s Annual Conference to be held in London on 2nd/ 3rd March 2012. 

Applicants should be happy for details of their project to be promoted on the Andante website: www.andantetravels.co.uk and by applying, give their consent to this. We have about 17,000 people on our database and a well-visited website, so there is the potential to give exposure to all projects. Some of our guests have given altruistic help to needy projects in the past.

£1000 Bursary for Study at Herculaneum

The Friends of Herculaneum Society is pleased to offer a bursary of £1000 to a postgraduate student for work on Herculaneum. The deadline for application is 31 January 2012. Click here for further information, and here for the application form.

Impact of funding cut-backs

An interesting article on StabiaNews the other day. The massive cuts in funding to cultural sites and museums in Campania will shortly result in reduced opening hours at many of these. Basic maintenance will be also affected: at Paestum, for example, the grass will be cut back, but at Velia it won’t. It will start getting difficult to visit sites like Velia within a couple of months. Pompeii and the other Vesuvian sites are lucky in this respect. Financial independence means that they are not affected by the cut-backs.