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 VIDEOPrinciples for the inclusion of crop wild relative data in EURISCO
The principles will promote the creation of CWR national inventories and, for the first time, the transfer to EURISCO of in situ data
New ECPGR Characterization and Evaluation Descriptors for Pear Genetic Resources
This new publication by the ECPGR Malus/Pyrus Working Group synthesizes, harmonizes and prioritizes characterization and evaluation descriptors for…
Meeting of the Working Group Chairs and the Executive Committee, 5–6 April 2022
The minutes of the meeting are now available online
ECPGR Steering Committee meeting
The 16th meeting of the ECPGR Steering Committee will be held from 7 to 9 June 2022 in Alnarp and Malmö, Sweden. [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 relevant 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
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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