Roadmap meeting of WEGENER.
The concept of WEGENER Working Group of European Geoscientists for the Establishment of Networks for Earthquake Research) was put forward at a meeting of the Journees Luxembourgeoise de Geodynamique held in Walferdange in 1980 and the consortium was formally established during a meeting at IfAG (now BFG) in Frankfurt early in 1981. It is a voluntary collaboration among a large group of European institutions and individual scientists wishing to cooperate on the application of space and terrestrial geodetic techniques to the study of geodynamics.