Organising Committee

Chairman
José Brilha (Earth Sciences Centre-UM and ProGEO-Portugal)

Members
Diamantino Pereira (Earth Sciences Centre-UM)
Maria Isabel C. Alves (Earth Sciences Centre-UM)
Mário Cachão (ProGEO-Portugal)
Miguel Ramalho (ProGEO-Portugal)
Paulo Pereira (Earth Sciences Centre-UM)
Renato Henriques (Earth Sciences Centre-UM)
William Wimbledon (ProGEO)

Scientific Committee

Chairmen
Francesco Zarlenga (President of ProGEO, Italy)
Graciete Dias (Director of the Earth Sciences Centre, UM, Portugal)

Members
Ana Azerêdo (Portugal)
António Galopim de Carvalho (Portugal)
Andrei Lapo (Russia)
Carlos Schobbenhaus (Brazil)
Daniel Barettino Fraile (Spain)
Dusan Mijovic (Serbia & Montenegro)
Emmanuel Reynard (Switzerland)
Félix Pérez Lorente (Spain)
Gunnel Ransed (Sweden)
 Hülya Ínaner (Turkey)
Ibrahim Komoo (Malaysia)
Irini Theodossiou-Drandaki (Greece)
Jan Urban (Poland)
Jonas Satkunas (Lithuania)
José Brilha (Portugal)
Lars Erikstad (Norway)
Luís Costa Júnior (Mozambique)
Maria Helena Couto (Portugal)
Maria Helena Henriques (Portugal)
Mário Cachão (Portugal)
Miguel Ramalho (Portugal)
Murray Gray (United Kingdom)
Patrick McKeever (Ireland)
Radoslav Nakov (Bulgaria)
Todor Todorov (Bulgaria)
William Wimbledon (United Kingdom)
Zhao Xun (China)
Zofia Alexandrowicz (Poland) 

Honorary Committee

Mariano Gago
Portuguese Minister for Science, Tecnology and Higher Education

Francisco Nunes Correia
Portuguese Minister for Environment, Territorial Planning and Regional Development

António José Guimarães Rodrigues
Rector of the University of Minho

Mechtild Rössler
UNESCO World Heritage Centre

Peter T. Bobrowsky
Secretary General of the International Union of Geological Sciences

Tim Badman
IUCN-The World Conservation Union

Christer Åkerman
President of the European Federation of Geologists

João Rosmaninho Menezes
President of the Nature Conservation Institute, Portugal

Alcides Pereira
President of the National Institute of Engineering, Technology and Innovation, Portugal

Fernando Noronha
President of the Portuguese Geologists Association

Fernando Ruas
President of the National Association of Portuguese Municipalities

Organisers, Sponsors and Collaborating Entities
(to be completed)

Organisers
Earth Sciences Centre (University of Minho-UM, Braga, Portugal)
ProGEO (European Association for the Conservation of the Geological Heritage)

Sponsors
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Tap Air Portugal
IUGS

Collaborating Entities
Earth Sciences Department (University of Minho, Portugal)
Côa Valley Archeological Park (Portugal)
Serviços de Acção Social (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)