In the past years an important component of ICAA has been the Albanian Rescue Archaeology Unit (ARAU), devoted to field projects especially at Apollonia, the Shkumbin river valley, and the Korça area. Its primary task has been to provide a rapid response service for sites in danger because of looting and/or construction development.

The practice of rescue archaeology was unknown in Albania before 2000. Nowadays the Government has acknowledged the need of a structure which deals with such issues and has created the Agency for Public Archaeology Service (http://www.asha.gov.al/content.asp?id=3) within the Ministry of Culture, Tourism, Youth, and Sport in which work some of the people trained by ARAU.

ARAU projects have been always carried out in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology.

ICAA has also developed a series of research projects in important archaeological sites, both alone and in joint projects with foreign Universities. These projects had the aim not only to gain new information and archaeological data from the excavations, but also to be a training school for young archaeologists.

Necropolis of Apollonia Project
The necropolis has been object of research and investigation on several occasions. The history of excavations begun with the area to the south and east of the city ...
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Korca Basin Survey
This is a project initiated by the Albanian Rescue Archaeology Unit in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology of the Albanian Academy of Sciences.
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Geophysical Survey at the Ancient City of Apollonia 2007
The geophysical survey was funded by the Packard Humanities Institute. The project was launched by the Albanian Rescue Archaeology Unit and it is a collaboration among ARAU (represented by Maria Grazia Amore), the Institute of Archaeology (represented by Vangjel Dimo), the National Archaeological Park of Apollonia (represented by Arjan Dimo), and the School of Environmental Sciences-University of East Anglia (represented by David Bescoby, who provided the technical expertise and the equipment)...
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Roads Project
The section Fier-Levan is part of the national road Fier-Vlorë, which the Albanian Ministry of Transport and Telecommunications has planned to build in the near ...
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Tumulus of Lofkend
A collaboration of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles, the International Center for Albanian Archaeology, and the Institute of Archaeology, Tirana. Co-directors: Lorenc Bejko, Sarah P. Morris and John K. Papadopoulos.
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Kamenica
The tumulus of Kamenica is situated in the southeastern corner of the Korça plain and is identified and placed on the archaeological map of the region of Korça since early 90-es. It was, however, very badly damaged during 1997, and since then looters have systematically dug, even with heavy machineries to find archaeological artifacts, by using metal detector...
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Via Egnatia
After initial discussion and the identification of an extended bibliography of Via Egnatia, sites, monuments, and historical events connected directly or indirectly with the ancient route, the Albanian Rescue Archaeology ...
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Rëmbec
During two seasons, November 2003 and May 2004, at the medieval cemetery of Rëmbec took place an archaeological excavation. Rëmbec is a village located in the center of the Korça basin, in southeastern Albania.
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Two hypogeous tombs at Rrogozhina
In the late fall of 1999 the Institute of Archaeology of the Albanian Academy of Sciences request the collaboration of the Rescue Unit of the International Centre for Albanian Archaeology as a joint venture to investigate two ...
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