Past posts:
Mobility Report: Stašo Forenbaher at the University of Cambridge
I completed my wek-long short-term mobility at Cambridge University from March 19 to March 24, 2018. The organizer and host of my stay was Dr. Preston Miracle (Division of Archaeology, Cambridge University). The primary purpose [...]
Mobility Report: Petra Rajić Šikanjić at the University of Cambridge
I completed my short-term mobility at Cambridge University from March 19 to March 24, 2018. My STM is related to WP4 and more specifically to Task 4.4, Boosting MIT disciplinary approach to the Sciences of [...]
Workshop Report: Integration of Genetics with Archaeobotany
The Horizon 2020-TWINN project “MendTheGap” organised a workshop on Archaeobotany (wood identification) and Integration of Genetics with Archaeobotany for PhD students of Biology and Agriculture, as well as to Biology students who participated on last year’s Archaeobotany workshop [...]
Mobility Report: Renata Šoštarić at the University of Cambridge
I conducted my short-term mobility at the University of Cambridge (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, George Pitt-Rivers Laboratory for Bioarchaeology) from May 27th till June 12th 2017. My hosts were Preston Miracle and Martin Jones [...]
Summer School: Introduction to Functional Morphology and Geometric Morphometrics
The Horizon 2020-TWINN project “MendTheGap” organises a summer school on Functional morphology and Geometric morphometrics for students of Archaeology, Biology, Biotechnology/Animal Science and Earth Sciences. The summer school will be held at the Department of [...]
Dissertation Defense
Mend the Gap Ph.D. student researcher with the Department of Geology at the University of Zagreb, Igor Felja, will be presenting his doctoral thesis this Monday. MendTheGap public presentation
Seeds from the Past
On Monday, 22/05/2017 in the Botanical garden in Zagreb, 28 pupils of the 1st grade of elementary school „Ivan Gundulić“, attended the workshop with the title: “Seeds from the past”, held by Dr. Sara [...]
prof. Juračić – public lecture
The Adriatic Sea: constant everchanging Location: Library and reading room Bogdan Ogrizović, Preradovićeva 5, Zagreb Organized by Croatian Natural History Society Date: May 4, 2017, starting at 18:00 The lecture will show how [...]
Mobility Report: Ankica Oros Sršen at the University of Pisa
I conducted my short-term mobility at the University of Pisa, Department of Biology, from March 20th till April 8th. My supervisors and hosts Prof. Damiano Marchi and Prof. Giovanni Boschian made all necessary arrangements for [...]
Report: Basic Course on Archaeological Soil Micromorphology
The Basic Course on Archaeological Soil Micromorphology was held at the Department of Geology – Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb from 20th t0 24th February 2107. The theoretical lessons were held in the main [...]
Workshop: Geomorphology
Workhop: Geomorpholoy 17th January 2017, Pisa Conveners: Marta Pappalardo and Giovanni Boschian Scientific Committee: Giovanni Boschian, Mladen Juračić, Marta Pappalardo and Renata Šoštarić Aims Reconstructions of past landscapes based on geological evidence are [...]
Mobility Report: Klaudija Carović Stanko, Martina Grdiša, Zlatko Šatović and Zlatko Liber at the University of Cambridge
As the CrEAME Initiative scientists taking part in the MendTheGap project, we (Klaudija Carović Stanko, Martina Grdiša, Zlatko Šatović and Zlatko Liber) visited Cambridge University from 22nd November to 6th December 2016. During our stay [...]
Mobility Report: Sara Essert at the University of Cambridge
From 17-29 October 2016 I completed my short-term mobility (STM) at Cambridge University. The organizer and host of my mobility was Dr. Preston Miracle (Division of Archaeology, Cambridge University). I got my education in George [...]
Workshop Report: Archaeobotanical Workshop
The first MendTheGap – Archaeobotanical Workshop was held from June 13th to 17th 2016 in Zagreb at the Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, by Renata Šoštarić. The workshop targeted students of [...]
Vela Luka Summer School Lectures
August 30, 2016 Vela spila: a brief introduction to recent fieldwork Preston Miracle Department of Archaeology and Anthropology University of Cambridge Vela spila Cave (Korčula, Croatia), preserves a long, rich, high-resolution record of palaeoenvironmental and archaeological [...]
Dissemination: conference poster presentation
67th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, 29 August - 2 September, 2016, Belfast, U.K. http://www.eaap2016.org/
MendTheGap – Summer School
MendTheGap - Summer School will be held from August 16th to September 30th in Vela Luka, Korčula, Croatia. Croatian, Italian and British experts covering various fields of our MIT disciplines (archaeologists, geologists, biologists) will demonstrate [...]
Mobility Report: Geomorphological peculiarities of the Eastern Adriatic coast
Prof.dr.sc. Mladen Juračić is visiting Departments of Biology and Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, from May 16th to 21st, where he is giving two talks regarding geomorphological peculiarities of the Eastern Adriatic coast and importance [...]
MendTheGap Archaeobotanic Workshop
Archaeobotanic Workshop provides an opportunity for biology students to learn and apply principal methodologies in archaeobotany, and prepare for the summer school and archaeological excavations at the Vela Spila site, Korčula, to be held in [...]
Past events:
Kick-off Meeting, March 16, 2016, Zagreb
March 16, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - 11:00 pmProject Dissemination: MendTheGap presentation at the International Cooperation Day – FOI 2016
April 14, 2016Public Lectures: Dinko Radić & Preston Miracle
September 28, 2016 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pmProject Dissemination: MendTheGap presentation at the Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana
October 28, 2016 @ 9:00 am - 5:00 pmProject Dissemination: Informative Day of Twinning Applications in 2017
May 16, 2017 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pmMonthly Seminar Series
June 2, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pmMonthly Seminar Series
June 16, 2017 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pmMonthly Seminar Series
June 16, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmLecture Series: Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future: Contributions of archaeology, biology, genetics, geology and paleontology
February 8, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmLecture Series “Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future”: “Posebno mjesto, zanimljiva vremena: otok Palagruža i prapovijest Jadrana” – Stašo Forenbaher
February 8, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmLecture Series “Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future”: “Istočnojadranska krška ušća” – Mladen Juračić
March 22, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmBilo kuda (arheo)sjemeke svuda
April 23, 2018 @ 11:00 amLecture Series “Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future”: “Znanost koja povezuje prošlost i genetiku” – Ino Čurik and Vladimir Brajković
May 3, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmWorkshop “Little archaeobotanists”
May 15, 2018 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pmLecture Series “Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future”: “Prehrana ljudi u prapovijesti: prijelaz s lova na stočarstvo na Jadranu” – Siniša Radović
May 24, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmLecture Series “Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future”: “Podrijetlo, udomaćenje i širenja graha: dokazi sačuvani u DNA ” – Zlatko Liber
June 14, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmModern plant and animal applied genomics driven by genotype and sequence data – John Hickey, Gregor Gorjanc, Martin Johnson
July 17, 2018 @ 8:00 am - July 19, 2018 @ 5:00 pmDetecting introgression using genomic data:ABBA BABA and related analyses – Martin Henry Simon
September 3, 2018 @ 8:00 am - September 4, 2018 @ 5:00 pmLecture Series “Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future”: “Genetska demografija ljekovite kadulje – Putovanje u prošlost” – Zlatko Šatović
September 20, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmLecture Series “Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future”: “Analiza ljudskih ostataka s ilirske nekropole Kopila” – Davorka Radovčić
October 11, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmLecture Series “Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future”: “Najveći i najmanji sisavci kvartara Hrvatske” – Jadranka Mauch Lenardić
October 25, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmLecture Series “Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future”: “Domestikacija goveda: nove spoznaje koje nam otkriva genomika” – Vlatka Čubrić Čurik
November 8, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmLecture Series “Sciences of the Past – Lessons for the Future”: “People, animals and caves facing rising sea-level” – Marta Pappalardo & Giovanni Boschian
November 22, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmFinal conference “Smart Integration of Genetics with Sciences of the Past in Croatia: Minding and Mending the Gap”
January 10, 2019 @ 10:00 am - January 11, 2019 @ 5:00 pmMendTheGap exhibition in “Night of museums” in Croatian Natural History Museum
February 1, 2019 @ 6:00 pm - February 2, 2019 @ 1:00 am