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The project will be carried out in close collaboration with
EUFORGEN. Bioversity International is hosting the EUFORGEN
Secretariat and the project coordinator (who is also EUFORGEN
Coordinator) will facilitate the linkages between the project
and EUFORGEN. The project coordinator will inform the EUFORGEN
Steering Committee about the progress and outputs of the
project. The EUFORGEN National Coordinators will be asked to
nominate a national focal point to provide FGR data for the
information system. Bioversity
also has contact persons in several non-member countries, which
have not yet joined EUFORGEN. These contact persons will be used
as a gateway to seek official nomination of the focal point by
relevant authorities in those non-member countries which are
interested in participating in the project. The technical work packages of the project are utilizing the
results of the earlier work carried out by the EUFORGEN
Networks. To ensure that these results are fully utilized in the
development of minimum requirements and information standards,
the EUFORGEN Networks will be asked to provide technical inputs
to various activities of the project. Experts from the EUFORGEN
Networks will also be invited to join the expert group that will
harmonise the minimum requirements and development of
information standards.Principles for sharing and using national FGR data through the
information system will be agreed in a Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU), which will be signed between Bioversity
International and a country providing data. By signing the MoU,
the countries will agree to provide data for the information
system and frequently update their data once the information
system is operational. Bioversity is committed to maintain the
information system as part of the EUFORGEN activities once the
project has been finalized. |
