• TO COMPILE compile available, high-resolution, terrestrial paleoclimate archives and proxy data series of hydrological changes in the Mediterranean Basin during the last millennium. 
• INVESTIGATE seasonal carbonate mineral production in Lake Butrint and how the isotopic signature is affected by low–frequency hydrological changes.
• UNDERSTAND he annual deposition of sediments and the formation of varves and how do they record the different climatic and hydrological signals.
• RECONSTRUCT high-resolution hydrological changes recorded during the last millennium, their impact in water resources and their relation with human activities, climate variability in a central, transitional area located between the two extremes (E and W) of the Mediterranean Basin (Lake Butrint, Albania).
• TO COMPARE the isotope and geochemical evolution of available records along a W to E longitudinal transect in order to test of the main differences in timing and intensity of these hydrological fluctuations and their variable impact in water resources and human activities in these regions.
• INVESTIGATE how reconstructed periodicities relate to potential forcing mechanisms of climate variability during the last millennium, like the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the Scandinavian Pattern (SCAND), El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), solar variability or volcanic input.