About FoAP project

FoAP – The future of Albania’s Past project was conceived in 2005, as part of the NGO Albanian Heritage Foundation, financed by Packard Humanity Institute, aiming to create the countries’ first national digital archive system for recording, monitoring and evaluating the archaeological sites and historical monuments data on relation to their surrounding territories.
This idea generated as an urgent need of the country for storing and analyzing in a unique digital archive the vast quantity and complexity of data accumulated in years through surveys and archaeological research, alongside with the newly collected data information.
Today, this system is a highly effective instrument for mitigating risk to historically sensitive landscapes under great pressure from a wide range of national programs of construction currently being implemented.
Also, FoAP archive serves as an important research, education and informative tool for specialists of archaeology and heritage, students and the wide public.


Over the five years the FoAP project's work has been mainly focused on:

• Developing and maintaining an interrelation database system for
  archaeological sites, monuments and historical areas.
  
  
• Developing and maintaining an interactive GIS map platform of archaeological sites, monuments and historical areas.
  
  
• Undertake regular field surveys program for evaluating and updating the existing data and also discover new sites.
  
  
• Provide students trainings on the utilization of the computer technologies in heritage management.
  
  
• Prepare a system that is able to offer consultation and services to national and international bodies involved in planning and heritage management.
  
  
• Maintain the FASTI online project for Albania.