Topo-Transylvania: a multidisciplinary Earth science initiative in Central Europe to tackle local and global challenges

Funding

Acknowledgements We warmly thank Sierd Cloetingh for initiating the project and for his continuous encouragement and support throughout the past years. We also say thanks to all the colleagues from various institutions who have contributed to the project and to the present special issue. We are grateful to the International Lithosphere Program (ILP) and the Hungarian ILP Committee (ILP MNB) for their support and also to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the National Research, Development and Innovation Office for partial funding.