In the valley of the river Viskan, about 15 km north of Varberg, on a hill within sight of Klosterfjorden, there was a Cistercian monastery in the Middle Ages, founded in 1194 by monks from Sorö Abbey in southern Zealand. Made possible by land donations from the spiritually and secularly powerful Archbishop Absalon, the monastery developed into a real powerhouse and its brick buildings are considered among the largest in Halland. At the height of its development, Ås Monastery encompassed more than 250 farms in Northern Halland. Today, no remains of the monastery are visible above ground. After the Reformation, the church and other buildings were demolished and the bricks were reused to repair Varberg Fortress. In the early 19th century, the main building of a royal estate was built within the monastery area. Uniquely, no archaeological excavations at all had been carried out on the monastery hill before the project started, meaning that both the location and extent of the monastery were completely unknown. The monastery project carried out excavations in 2011 and 2012 in parts of the eastern wing after the monastery plan had largely become known through ground penetrating radar surveys in 2009 and 2010. In 2013, an excavation was carried out west, southwest and south of Kungsgården. The aim of phase 2 is to link these parts into a single unit through excavations over three years starting in 2018. The grant application is for research initiation, networking and seminars in 2017 to develop a project plan.