IFR’s field schools offer hands-on, experiential learning in a variety of disciplines and locations around the world. Our academically rigorous and culturally immersive programs award up to 8 semester credits to help you fulfill degree requirements and further your career in the field sciences or beyond.
 Open and Upcoming Programs
The following programs are currently accepting applications or will be opening soon!
 Summer 24 Programs
Check out our 2024 field season programs below. Many of these will be offered again in the 2025 season, along with new program options.
Ecuador: Zuleta Excavation
Overview Hacienda Zuleta is a colonial-era hacienda nestled in a beautiful scenic valley in the eastern cordillera of the Andes in northern highland Ecuador [...]
Ireland: Birr Survey
Overview Throughout human history, people have been interacting with the natural landscape, seeking food, water, shelter, and resources with which to build a better [...]
Ireland: Ferrycarrig Experimental Archaeology
Overview This program provides a practical introduction to the role of crafts, technologies, and construction techniques in Ireland throughout time. Focusing on both the [...]
Ireland: Monastic Midlands Excavation
Overview This field school is an integral part of the major research project, the Monastic Midlands Project. It takes a holistic landscape scale approach [...]
Italy: Cortona Survey
This program is supported by the City of Cortona, MAEC Museum Cortona, and La Montagna Cortonese. Overview This initiative is part of [...]
Italy: Industria Excavation
Overview The project Comunità antiche e moderne di Industria (CAMI), Ancient and Modern Communities of Industria, is a community-based archaeological project in Piedmont, Northern [...]
North Macedonia: Stobi Excavation
Overview The ancient city of Stobi, which lies at the confluence of the Crna and Vardar (ancient Erigon and Axios) rivers, was the largest [...]
North Macedonia: Stobi Roman Mosaic Conservation
Overview The Mosaic Conservation 3-week course provides a theoretical and hands-on training experience on mosaic conservation. Students can expect to learn the processes a [...]
North Macedonia: Stobi Roman Pottery and Glass Conservation
Overview The main goal for this program to provide theoretical and hands-on training experience on pottery and glass conservation. It does so through the [...]
Portugal: Lisbon Bioarchaeology Lab
Overview Archaeological excavation within historic cities often produce deep stratigraphy dating back to the original foundation of the city and telling the story of [...]