The Tango and Belgica 121 expeditions mostly rely on funding from the Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO), under the BRAIN (Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks) funding scheme.
The TANGO expedition was also sponsored by the following institute:
The B121 expedition was also sponsored by the following institutes:
- the Federal Public Service Health, Food chain safety and Environment
- the Federation Wallonia-Brussels
- the Fund for Scientific Research – FNRS
- the Research Foundation – Flanders – FWO
- the Leopold 3 Fund for the exploration and conservation of Nature
- the Royal Belgian Society for Zoology
A dedicated documentary (“Observations at 65°S”, Director: Lilian Hess) was prepared in the framework of the B121 expedition, for which we have successfully lead a kickstarter campaign: we would like to thank our backers, as well as private sponsors who have made it possible: