EAA COMMUNITIES, COMMITTEES & TASK FORCES(CCTF)

The EAA institutionalises its communities, committees and task forces to proactively and dynamically create networks, meet in between conferences, actively use their web page in iMIS, have a recognizable list of members, report and address proposals and inputs to the Executive Board, and actively produce EAA policies. In order to subscribe to the current communities or search its members, please log in as member and follow the links for the individual communities below. As EAA member, you can subscribe to become member of a community, or follow any of its parts like blog, discussion etc.

The EAA currently has the following communities:

• Archaeological Legislation and Organization
• Archaeological Archives and Collections in Europe  
• Archaeological Prospection
• Archaeology and Gender in Europe (AGE)
• Archaeology and the EU Environmental Impact Assessment Directive
• Archaeology of Wild Plants
• Climate Change and Heritage
• Committee on the Illicit Trade in Cultural Material
• Committee on the Teaching and Training of Archaeologists
• Communication and Media Strategy Committee
• EAA and EAC Working Group on farming, forestry and rural land management
• Medieval Europe Research Community (MERC)
• Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Community (PaM)
• Political Strategies Committee
• Public Archaeology Community
• Professional Associations in Archaeology Committee
• Urban Archaeology
• Working Party integrating the Management of Archaeological Heritage and Tourism

Communities are groups sharing common interest, created  top-down or bottom-up for a renewable period, which organise session or round table at each EAA conference.
Committees are permanent or long-lasting task-oriented small groups of members, created  top-down or bottom-up, to deal with permanent policy issues and / or to represent the EAA at European institutions.
Task forces are small commissions of members to deal with particular, contextual, or urgent issues; they are created for a particular task and period of time.