Over the next four years, archaeologists from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, together with a multidisciplinary team of researchers from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), the KULeuven and Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (Howest), will investigate how the coastal landscape in and around Ostend evolved the last five thousand years, from a natural landscape to today's completely man-made coastline.
The study, which will be launched under the name Testerep, is not only of archaeological interest, but hopefully can lead to a series of recommendations on how we should deal with our coastline in a changing climate in the future.
This project is part of the SBO program of FWO and ends in 2025.
