Genebank capacity building peer visits
A genebank "peer review" proof of concept was endorsed at the workshop "Assessing current practices and procedures to strengthen AEGIS" held 10-12 December 2018 in San Fernando de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
The concept consists of visiting and reviewing each other’s genebanks as a way of improving the quality of genebanks. After each visit, a report is written with observations and recommendations.
GenRes Bridge Cycle
The first cycle of mutual visits involving three genebanks took place in early 2019 within the framework of the GenRes Bridge project.
The resulting reports are available below:
General report from reviewers (Theo van Hintum, María José Díez, José Vicente Valcárcel and Wieslaw Podyma)
Pilot: Genebank Peer Reviews – Observations and conclusions based on one cycle of three genebank peer reviews (331,7 KB)
Individual genebank reports
Report of the Peer Review of the COMAV Genebank (7-8 February 2019, Valencia, Spain) (332,0 KB)
Report of the Peer Review of the CGN Genebank (6-8 March 2019, Wageningen, The Netherlands) (332,5 KB)
Report of the Peer Review of the IHAR-PIB Genebank (16-17 April 2019, Radzików, Poland) (338,0 KB)
See also the news issued by the GenRes Bridge project: European genebanks start to review each other
AGENT Cycle
Additional mutual visits are taking place under the framework of the AGENT - Activated GEnebank NeTwork project.
In 2022, the involved genebanks included: the Crop Research Institute (CRI), Czech Republic; the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Germany; the National Agricultural and Food Centre (NPPC), Slovakia; the National Institute for Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (INIA), Spain; the Centre for Genetic Resources, the Netherlands; and the Institute of Plant Genetic Resources (IPGR) – Sadovo, Bulgaria.
Individual genebank reports
- Report of the Peer Review of the Crop Research Institute (CRI) Genebank, Prague, Czech Republic, 12-13 May 2022 (209,0 KB)
- Report of the Peer Review of the Centro Nacional de Recursos Fitogenéticos (CRF), Madrid, Spain, 7-8 July 2022 (126,7 KB)
- Report of the Peer Review of the Genebank of the Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK), Gatersleben, Germany, 19-20 July 2022 (188,9 KB)
- Report of the Peer Review of the Centre for Genetic Resources (CGN) Genebank, Wageningen, The Netherlands, 19-20 July 2022 (162,4 KB)
- Report of the Peer Review of the National Agricultural and Food Centre - Research Institute of Plant Production Piešťany (NPPC), Slovakia, 23-24 August 2022 (720,4 KB)
- Report of the Peer Review of the Genebank of the Institute of Plant Genetic Resources 'Konstantin Malkov', Bulgaria, 6-7 October 2022 (165,6 KB)
Further visits are planned in 2023 and 2024.
The GenRes Bridge project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 817580
The AGENT project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 862613.