French participation in the International Equatorial Electrojet Year

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Acknowledgements. The IEEY studies in the African sector were made possible by the participation of a large number of institutes. Funding was provided by the Ministère Français de la Coopération (Département de la Recherche et des Formations, and Département Télécommunications); ORSTOM (Département Terre Océan Atmosphère); CNET (France-Telecom Centre Lannion); the Ministère Français de la Recherche et de la Technologie; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Département Sciences de l'Univers); the Centre à l'Energie Atomique; the Université Paris-Sud; Abidjan University, Ivory Coast; Dakar University, Senegal. We would like to express our deep gratitude to the many colleagues who have participated in the success of this experiment through their enormous personal commitment, to the Editorial Board of Annales Geophysicae and particularly to Sylviane Perret for producing this special issue.