Frerich Schön (Co-Coordinator ‒ Classical Archaeology) is co-director of the DFG-funded Tübingen Excavation Project "Pantelleria ‒ Bridgehead of Carthage and outpost of Rome. From the Punic base to the Roman town: archaeological research on the fortification and the public place" on Pantelleria Island (Trapani, Italy). This project focuses on local, insular response to Mediterranean conflicts of the first millennium BCE. He also co-directed an archaeological survey project on Linosa Island (Agrigento, Italy) to study long-term settlement dynamics and supply strategies on a waterless island. Based on archaeological sources, Schön will contribute to the proposed network with the question, how island communities in Classical Antiquity responded to the lack of resources. Focusing on water, food, and raw material supplies, his work will give insight into the strategies developed or adopted by island communities to meet the demand for fundamental resources. Furthermore, he will contribute to the question of the role of islands like Sardinia, Sicily, Malta or the Balearic Islands as part of the Phoenician trade network in the first half of the 1st Millennium BCE, the Carthaginian Empire (from ca. 550 BCE to 200 BCE), and the Roman Empire (from ca. 250 BCE to 500 CE).