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The collaborative research network Text and narrative in Byzantium (Texte et récit à Byzance) offers a scholarly framework for a number of research projects in Uppsala and Paris, while also facilitating mobility and exchange for teachers, scholars and PhD students.

The Centre de recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance was created in 1972. Upon the Center’s inception, the CNRS asked Paul Lemerle to draw together common research programs, with as many French scholars specializing in that field as possible, in order to mutualize means. Today, the goals remain the same. Under the direction of Gilbert Dagron, the associate research unit URA (Unité de Recherches associée) has grown. On January 1st, 1996, it became a mixed research unit UMR (Unité Mixte de Recherche).

«Artefacts and Raw Materials in Byzantine Archival Documents» (ByzAD, Typica) - a specialized project of the Institute of the Ancient and Byzantine World of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Friborg (Switzerland), aimed at creating a database of various references to objects of Byzantine material culture in archival documents. The regularly updated database now includes 5000 entries (more than 4,000 objects, 700 categories and about 150 documents) and is freely available for research and training purposes.

Princeton University project on the creation of 3D models of historical buildings in Constantinople.
Over the past several years, Professor Ahmet Cakmak, of Princeton University's Department of Civil Engineering and Operations Research has undertaken the structural analysis, under earthquake loads, of the Hagia Sophia.