%O This manuscript is made available under a Creative Commons 3.0 license (CC BY 3.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work for personal and non-commercial use providing author and publisher attribution is clearly stated. Further details about CC BY licenses are available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/. Access may be initially restricted by the publisher. %X The Marie Curie Early Stage Training (MEST) projects, run by the European Commission, offer training opportunities to young scientists from EU member states and sometimes also from non-European countries. The Institute of Archaeology hosted one such project between 2004 and 2008, which is described here by its Principal Investigator. %L discovery1475362 %J Archaeology International %K Students, materials science, European Commission, training %D 2008 %P 15-18 %N 0 %A T Rehren %V 11 %T The Marie Curie programme at the Institute of Archaeology 2004-2008