- To develop an integrated network of scientists addressing Tyrrhenian-Apennine and Aegean-Anatolian systems (including Greece and Turkey)
- To connect with ICDP & IODP projects which are working or planning activities in this region. Specific targets for ICDP include active volcanism in the Phlegrean fields and stress and seismic hazard on the North Anatolian Fault
- Understanding and quantitative measurements of earthquake cycles on major fault systems
- Hazard investigation of key locations in the Mediterranean area, such as Messina Strait, Hellenic arc, Lisbon
- Lithosphere-asthenosphere mapping and high resolution mantle tomography, combined with 4-D modelling of lithospheric scale and coupled mantle-surface processes
- Improved dating capacity, improved control and work power, development of new dating technologies (to be coordinated on a European scale)
- Improved geodetic constraints on on-going deformation and improved geomorphologic constraints on neotectonics
- Investigate landscape response times to changes in orientation and magnitude of stress fields
- Paleotopographic studies to assess the uplift history of mountain belts
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