ECOBREED announced its first online training the “State-of-the-art tools and approaches in plant phenotyping“, which will take place on 24-25 May 2021 on the MS Teams application. Main purpose of the training is to present the research in the field of interdisciplinary automated plant phenotyping systems using a variety of sensors. Young researchers, scientists, breeders,
LIVESEED is organising an online (Zoom) workshop on the current organic seed market trends, the results of research on organic seed businesses and on the different policy measures to boost the production and use of organic seed. The event will take place on 2 June 2021, 10-12 AM (CET). Researchers from the LIVESEED consortium will
On 30 March, LIVESEED invited Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) and their staff to attend a webinar to showcase the outcomes of the project and the relevance of the temporary experiment on organic varieties. This was one of the activities to explain outcomes of the LIVESEED project to politicians and enable them to consider
For information in Spanish, please click here. On 6-10 September, the organic movement will gather at the Organic World Congress 2021 (OWC 2021) to address questions around resilience, societal transformation, health and food sovereignty. The Organic World Congress will be an occasion for us to celebrate the diversity of culture, food, seed and methodologies. Join
May 5, 13:00-15:00 (Vienna time), virtual event Monitoring seed infection rates is the main control measure allowing for the management of common bunt in wheat and related cereals. This is true in general, and for organic farming in particular. Many European countries have specific requirements or norms to limit the presence of common bunt spores on
A series of online trainings are offered on the use of the EU Router Organic Seed Database. The trainings are free of charge and will be held by FiBL that developed the database. If you would like to get more information or participate in the trainings, please send a mail to Xenia.Gatzert@fibl.org. The platform can
Even in this time of pandemics, the LIVESEED project will actively attend this year’s e-Special edition of BIOFACH. More specifically, it will be there with two sessions. New Plant breeding Techniques and Organic Farming On 17 February 2021, from 12:00 to 13:00 CET, the LIVESEED project will present its session on “New Plant breeding Techniques
We would like to inform you that new dates have been selected for the Last LIVESEED Annual Meeting, which will finally be held online on 30-31 March 2021. As a result of COVID-19 developments, the Conference of EUCARPIA, that was also supposed to host the LIVESEED Final Scientific Conference, will take place online on 8-10 March 2021 (read our dedicated news item for more details). We realised that having to attend online events five days in
On 24-25 November 2020, TP Organics, the European Technology Platform for Organic Food and Farming, held its annual event, the Organic Innovation Days. Partnering with the Horizon 2020 project LIVESEED. Day 1: LIVESEED final conference for stakeholder and policy makers On 24 November, the LIVESEED final conference brought together more than 250 stakeholders and policymakers. Monika Messmer, Scientific Coordinator of
As a result of COVID-19 developments, it was decided that the International Conference on breeding innovations for organic food systems, due to take place in CĒSIS, LATVIA, will instead be held online. Dates remain the same, 8-10 March 2021. Further changes concern the following deadlines: Abstract submission EXTENDED: 10 December 2020 Decision on abstract acceptance:
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