THE
RAYMONDE RIVOALLAN FUND
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"A first attempt
at creating a Fund aligned with the EWVP was made during the 5th
meeting held in Karlsruhe in 2000. An auction succeeded in collecting
a sum that was passed to the organisers of the following year's meeting
in Florence, and financed
the attendance of one student.
The attempt, though, did not become a habit. The death of my grandmother Raymonde Rivoallan in April 2003 unfortunately provided me with money I did not want not use for 'normal' purposes. Her interest in Palaeontology had always been remote, but at the same timeshe would never have denied anybody the right to study weird extinct creatures. She would have hated me putting words in her mouth, but from her life, something like 'hold your head high and only give up when it's hopeless - but really hopeless' sounds an appropriate motto. This sorrowful chance was taken to help colleagues from the East to attend the founding meeting of the EAVP in Basel, thus giving our association a truly European dimension. Thanks to special events during the WEAVPs as well as the generaosity of donors, I can see a hope that the Raymonde Rivoallan Fund will become well established and continues to support our ambitions of European, multidisciplinarity and solidarity." Marie-Céline Buchy. |
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2003 grants were awarded to colleagues specifically by virtue of coming
from eastern Europe, which does not mean that their contributions were
not of a high quality - they can be found in the Abstract Book of the
1st WEAVP,
Basel, 2003. Paul Constantin, Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest, Romania; Zoltan Csiki, University of Bucharest, Romania; Cristian Focsaneanu, University of Bucharest, Romania; István Fozy, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Erika Gál, Archaeological Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary; Mihály Gasparik, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Attila Osi, Eötvös University, Department of Palaeontology, Budapest, Hungary; Piroska Pazonyi, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest, Hungary; Erika Posmosanu, Muzeul Tarii Crisurilor, Oradea, Romania; Márton Venczel, Muzeul Tarii Crisurilor, Oradea, Romania; Michal Zabrowski, University of Wroclaw, Zoological Institute, Department of Palaeontology, Wroclaw, Poland. |
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Two grants were offered
for the 3rd
WEAVP in Darmstadt, and awarded to |
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From
Germany: |
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