A Big Thank You!
Many may not know how important and vital sponsors and supporters are in the archaeological business. Though our universities, faculties and institutes contribute a lot to Kinneret Regional Project, this endeavor would not be possible without the generous support we receive from various foundations, institutions, societies and private donors. In recent years we received considerable support from (in alphabetical order):
- Auswärtiges Amt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
- Deutscher Palästina-Verein
- Deutscher Verein vom Heiligen Lande
- Leids Universiteits Fonds
- Finnish Cultural Foundation
- Finnish Institute of the Middle East
- Leiden University Funds (Byvanck Stichting)
- Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion
- Romanian Cultural Institute
- Schröter Stiftung
- UniBern Research Foundation
Most recently, however, co-directors Jürgen Zangenberg and Stefan Münger have received a significant grant from the White-Levy Program for Archaeological Publications for their project «The Early Iron Age City on Tell el-‘Oreme / Tel Kinrot (Galilee)». The grant is awarded for the academic year 2011/12, but may be extended for another two years until 2014. The prestigious White-Levy Grant for Archaeological Publications is awarded annually to 9-12 projects worldwide to support “research on terminated and unpublished archaeological field work from significant sites in the Aegean, Anatolia, Balkans, Iranian Plateau, Levant, and Mesopotamia”. The generous subsidy will enable Stefan Münger and Jürgen Zangenberg and the involved authors to publish the final reports of the Early Iron Age strata of Tel Kinrot, excavated by Kinneret Regional Project until 2008.
We are honoured to receive this prestigious grant and grateful towards the Shelby White & Leon Levy Program for Archaeological Publications and all our other – equally important – supporters of our work on the Northwestern shores of the Sea of Galilee.
