EAVP

EAVP

The European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists (EAVP) was founded in 2003 for individuals with an interest in vertebrate palaeontology. EAVP currently has over 100 members, 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

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.

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.