Both national and international colleagues will meet for one-off workshops or at regular meetings of working groups to discuss cross-disciplinary topics.

• Terminology - establishment of a uniform terminology
• Theories and models
• Methodology
• Collation of information
• Sovereignty and harbours
• Protagonists
• Harbours and sacred landscapes
• Crafts and production
• The economy and cultural exchange
• Harbours - existence, rise and decline
• Landscape dynamics / interaction between natural and anthropogenic factors
• Supraregional comparison of harbours