Europe
- Luxembourg Workshop
The workshop
The colourful city of Luxembourg played host to the Second European Workshop on National Plant Genetic Resources Programmes: from research to policy making, held in November 2006.
About 100 experts from almost all European countries representing the plant genetic resources (PGR) community, including scientists, researchers, policy makers and others gathered to exchange information and experience with building National Programmes (NPs).
The main issues discussed during the Luxembourg Workshop included research perspectives and opportunities on PGR in Europe, identification of NPs as an essential platform for development and implementation of policies and laws in each country, the future role of stakeholders in conservation and the use of PGR in Europe and the importance of the collaborative networking.
The First European workshop on NPs, known as the "Alnarp Workshop", was held in April 2003. The progress made since then was summarized on the basis of the results of a survey of NPs conducted between the two workshops. While highlighting the progress made in building NPs in the European Region during recent years, the survey acknowledged the continued need for a platform to assist NPs through enabling exchange of experience and mutual learning.
The workshop facilitated a creative discussion. Many good ideas and proposals for further action were developed and were summarized in the Report. Participants showed a strong interest in further development of collaboration and indicated the need for further existence of relevant platform for European National Programmes.
Presentations
Session 1 - National Programme: An Integrated Policy Approach
- Aivina Avagyan: accomplishments, challenges, perspectives in Armenia (PDF, 2.68 MB)
- Åsmund Asdal: accomplishments, challenges, perspectives in Norway (PDF, 133 Kb)
- Urban Emanuelsson: Building biodiversity policies: the Swedish examples (PDF, 653 Kb)
- Petra Engel: accomplishments, challenges, perspectives in Italy (PDF, 546 Kb)
- Eva Jansson and Jens Weibull: Progress made in building national PGR programmes in Europe: on the road from Alnarp (PDF, 1.33 MB)
Session 2 - Policy and Legal Developments on Plant Genetic Resources in Europe
- Jan Engels (Bioversity): International policy and legal issues, processes and agreements - an overview (PDF, 254 Kb)
- Aidas Pivoriunas, Ministry of Environment, Lithuania: Experience with development and practical implementation of national legislation (PDF, 344 Kb)
Session 3 - Research Perspectives and Opportunities on Plant Genetic Resources in Europe
Session 4 - Future Roles of Stakeholders in Conservation and Use of Plant Genetic Resources in Europe
- Pablo Eyzaguirre: Studying functional properties of plant genetic diversity for nutrition and health (PDF, 1.32 MB)
- Ove Fossa, from the Slow Food Movement: Plant Diversity and Healthy Lives (PDF, 2.65 MB)
- Morten Rasmussen (SW Seed): Use of genetic resources in plant breeding - the changing roles (PDF, 6.03 MB)
- Tatjana Gavrilenko: Characterizing genetic resources in the Vavilov genebank for nutritional values (PDF, 970,0 KB)
Session 5 - Role of Collaborative Networking on Plant Genetic Resources at Regional, Sub-Regional and Inter-Regional Levels
- Fred Atieno: The experience of GRENEWECA (PDF, 1.62 MB)
- David Maghradze: The experience of a collaborative network on grapevine genetic resources in the Caucasus and Northern Black Sea area (PDF, 4.06 MB)
- Gordana Djuric: The experience of SEEDNet (PDF, 936 Kb)
- Antoine Kremer: The role of collaborative research networking in promoting the conservation and sustainable management of Forest Genetic Diversity in Europe (PDF, 5.87 MB)
- Eva Thörn: The role of ECPGR in developing a shared vision of a European genebank integrated system (PDF, 3.61 MB)
Posters
There was a poster session and a number of posters were presented.
- Posters from Countries: Romania (PDF files, 256 Kb) (In situ and on farm conservation activities in Romania, Romanian Plant Genetic Resources Programme), Sweden (PDF files, 685 Kb) (POM Sweden, Sweden Narcissi, Perennials and bulbs), Switzerland (PDF, 123 Kb), Albania (PDF, 1.51 MB), Bosnia and Herzegovina (PDF, 126 Kb), Georgia (PDF, 401 Kb), Germany (PDF, 98.7 Kb), Spain (PDF, 198 Kb), Belarus (PDF, 1.16 MB), Czech Republic (PDF, 946 Kb), Estonia (PDF, 45.2 Kb), Slovakia (PDF, 172 Kb), Turkey (PDF, 204 Kb), Macedonia (PDF 3.74 Mb or ZIP 2.83 Mb)
- A Learning Experience from Europe: inter-regional information sharing towards a sustainable and efficient information management (PDF, 133 Kb)
- EURISCO Facts and Figures.pdf (PDF, 288 Kb)
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