The main benefits of AEGIS will be:

• Improved collaboration among European countries and a stronger unified Europe;
• Cost-efficient conservation activities;
• Reduced redundancy in European collections;
• Improvement of quality standards for conservation across Europe;
• More effective regeneration;
• Facilitated access to all the germplasm included in AEGIS;
• Improved security of germplasm through formal commitments and safety-duplication;
• Improved linkages between ex situ and in situ conservation as well as linkages with users;
• Improved sharing of knowledge and information.