40 YEARS OF COOPERATION IN EUROPE FOR DIVERSITY AND FOOD SECURITY!
In this 4 min video ‘Saving European plant and food diversity: together, we are stronger!’, Marc Lateur tells a story about apple diversity, with a happy ending (Marc Lateur is the ECPGR National coordinator from Belgium).
WATCH VIDEOSeventeenth meeting of ECPGR's Steering Committee
National Coordinators met from 30 May–1 June 2023 in Portugal to review activities from 2019–2023 and launch a new 5-year ECPGR programme
Want to participate in the new EVA Network on Legumes?
The EVA Network brings together breeding companies, research institutes and genebanks to evaluate crop diversity in European collections
Poland signed the membership Letter of Agreement for Phase X
We welcome back Poland that re-joined ECPGR after several years, becoming the 34th country participating in the programme!
ECPGR 17th Steering Committee meeting
The 17th meeting of the ECPGR Steering Committee took place in Oeiras, Portugal, from 30 May to 1 June 2023. [more info]
Plant Genetic Resources Strategy for Europe
The Plant Genetic Resources Strategy for Europe, published by ECPGR, was launched on 30 November 2021 in Brussels, Belgium, together with the overarching Genetic Resources Strategy for Europe.
Watch the recording of the 21 January 2022 webinar on the Strategy
Read the policy brief: Plant genetic resources conservation and sustainable use – What should Europe urgently do?
Genetic Resources Journal
A full open access peer-reviewed journal publishing research, methods, case studies as well as reviews and opinion papers on the present and future use and conservation of genetic resources.
Genetic Resources is supported by the European genetic resources networks for plants (ECPGR) and animals (ERFP).
Submit your manuscript at: www.GenResJ.org
Our vision
The widest plant diversity is preserved for sustainable agriculture,
food security and quality
Our mission
European Network to promote conservation, management and sustainable use
of plant genetic diversity
PRO-GRACE: Promoting a Plant Genetic Resources Community for Europe
ECPGR is part of PRO-GRACE, a EU-funded project to develop the concept for a novel European Research Infrastructure dedicated to cataloguing, describing, safeguarding and enhancing European plant genetic resources for food and agriculture.
ECPGR is leading WP5 (Research Infrastructure concept, social and regulatory aspects, governance and financial plan), which will define what the proposed Research Infrastructure (RI) will look like by providing a technical analysis of the current RI ecosystem, identifying its main stakeholders, promoters and users, and establishing its services, structure, governance and financial plan.
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Genetic Resources Gateway
The Genetic Resources Gateway is a crowd-sourced platform serving as an entry point to the landscape of forest, plant and animal genetic resources in Europe.
To be featured on the Gateway, stakeholders from organizations working on genetic resources in Europe and neighbouring countries can register and add their organization and key content (multimedia material, technical guidelines, maps, projects, databases and success stories).
The Genetic Resources Gateway is one of the key products of the GenRes Bridge project, a joint initiative of the three European networks for genetic resources, ECPGR, EUFORGEN and ERFP.
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