EAVP
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The European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP) is a society for the advancement of vertebrate palaeontology in Europe.
The European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP) is a society for the advancement of vertebrate palaeontology in Europe.
EAVP
The European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP) was founded in 20031 for individuals with an interest in vertebrate palaeontology. EAVP currently has over 100 members1, the vast majority of them professional vertebrate palaeontologists. EAVP understands itself as a forum for palaeontologists in a traditionally multilingual and multicultural area, defining "Europe" not in a political, but in a geographical and cultural meaning. EAVP is legally based in Germany.
Aims
EAVP's aim are to launch and support international projects in the field of vertebrate palaeontology with a European contribution encourage and assist students to take part in such projects to create an improved source of future vertebrate palaeontologists set up or organise funds from European foundations and other sponsors maintain a plurality of methods encourage contacts and collaboration between European vertebrate palaeontologists by supporting each year the organisation of the Workshop of the EAVP in a different European country, in a historical continuity of the European Workshop on Vertebrate Palaeontology.
Workshops and annual meetings
EAVP hosts a yearly workshop in different European locations. For the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin EAVP additionally hosted an Extraordinary Meeting at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Annual Meetings of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists: 16th: Caparica, Portugal, 26 June – 1 July 2018 15th: Munich, Germany: 31 July – 5 August 2017 14th: Haarlem, The Netherlands: 6–10 July 2016 13th: Opole, Poland: 8–12 July 2015 12th: Torino, northwest Italy: 24–28 June 2014 11th: Villers-sur-Mer, France: 10–15 June 2013 10th: Teruel, Spain: 19–24 June 2012 9th: Heraklion, Crete, Greece: 14–19 June 2011 8th: Aix-en-Provence, France: 7–12 June 2010 7th: Berlin, Germany: 20–24 July 2009 6th: Spiská Nová Ves, Slovakia: 30 June – 5 July 2008 5th: Carcassonne, France: 15–19 May 2007 4th: Budapest, Hungary: 10–15 July 2006 3rd: Darmstadt, Germany: 18–23 July 2005 2nd: Brno, Czech Republic: 19–24 July 2004 1st: Basel, Switzerland: 15–19 July 2003 Annual meeting of the European Workshop of Vertebrate Paleontology 7th: Sibiu, Romania: 2–7 July 2002 6th: Firenze, Italy: 19–22 September 2001 5th: Karlsruhe, Germany: 27 June – 1 July 2000 4th: Albarracín, Spain: 8–12 June 1999 3rd: Maastricht, The Netherlands: 6–9 May 2nd: Espéranza, France: 7–10 May 1997 1st: Copenhagen, Denmark: 1–4 May 1996
Publications
EAVP's official journal is the peer-reviewed palaeontological journal Oryctos, which publishes French or English peer-reviewed original contributions on all aspects of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative anatomy, as well as papers dealing with the history of those scientific disciplines. For each EAVP workshop an abstract volume is published.
Funds
With the Raymonde Rivoallan Fund EAVP has established a fund that contributes travel funding for two students each year for participation in the EAVP workshops.
References
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