Framework and Partners

This project is funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BL/36/C54) and by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (2009DFA32210) through the scientific and technology agreement that exists between Belgium and China from 1979.

Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Direction Earth and History of Life
Dr. Thierry Smith (Coordinator, thierry.smith@naturalsciences.be)
Dr. Annelise Folie
Dr. Sandrine Ladevèze
Mr. Eric De Bast
Mrs. Nathalie Van Hoey

Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Science (IBCAS), State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany
Prof. Dr. Li Cheng-Sen (Coordinator, lics@ibcas.ac.cn)
Dr. Jiang Yang
Miss. Zhang Qian-qian
Mr. Li Ya

Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Namur (FUNDP), Department Geology
Prof. Dr. Johan Yans
Mr. Jean-Yves Storme

Ghent University (UGent), Research Unit of Palaeontology
Dr. Pieter Missiaen

Fieldwork and First results