ECPGR Documentation and Information Working Group

June 2024
A meeting of the 'Extension of EURISCO for Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) in situ data and preparation of pilot countries’ project took place in Sadovo, Bulgaria, on 18-19 June 2024. [More information]

February 2024
The EURISCO Coordinator S. Weise held an online training session in the context of the 'Crop wild relatives data in EURISCO' project with representatives of the pilot countries.

October 2023
A EURISCO online training session was carried out on 16 October with representatives from Ukraine and Lithuania who could not attend the in-person workshop in Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

September 2023
A EURISCO Training Workshop for National Focal Points took place from 12 to 14 September in Plovdiv, Bulgaria [more info]

May 2023
The Activity Report for the GRIN-Global Workshop 2021 for European Genebanks (GRIN-Global II) is available online [here]

December 2022
The project on 'Genotyping-by-sequencing of the European garlic collection to develop a sustainable ex situ conservation strategy (Garli-CCS)' – submitted by the Allium, Cryopreservation, and Documentation & Information Working Groups for funding under the Sixth Call of the Phase X ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme – was selected by the Executive Committee. [more info]

October 2022
The GRIN-Global Workshop 2021 for European Genebanks (GRIN-Global II) was held from 18-21 October in Prague, Czech Republic. [More info]

December 2021
The Report of the EURISCO Training Workshop 2021 is available online [here]

The project 'Extension of EURISCO for Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) in situ data and preparation of pilot countries’ data sets' was approved by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture. Visit the project page

November 2021
Stephan Weise has been appointed on 16 November as Chair of ECPGR Documentation and Information Working Group.

A EURISCO Training Workshop for National Focal Points was held from 10 to 12 November [more info]

March 2020
The project on "GRIN-Global Workshop 2021 for European Genebanks (GRIN-Global II)", submitted by the Documentation and Information Working Group for funding under the Third Call of the ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme for Phase X, was selected by the Executive Committee [more info] 

March 2019
The report of the preliminary workshop of the ImprovLoliumCol Activity is available online [here]

February 2019
The Report of the EURISCO National Focal Points Training Workshop 2018 is now available online [here]

October 2018
Assessing linkages between genebanks and direct users (LINKAGES): the Final Activity Report is now available online [here].

October 2018
EURISCO Regional Training Workshop and meeting of the EURISCO Advisory Committee
The EURISCO Training workshop took place 9-11 October 2018 at IPK, Gatersleben, Germany, followed by the meeting of the EURISCO Advisory Committee in the afternoon of 11 October 2018 (same venue). More info

July 2018
New taxonomy feature added to EURISCO
EURISCO data were mapped to the existing major taxonomic references, GRIN-Taxonomy and Mansfeld's World Database of Agriculture and Horticultural Crops. As a result, users can now easily retrieve from EURISCO all accessions belonging to a given taxon AND its synonyms. For example, searching for Lycopersicon esculentum, EURISCO will also show all data recorded as Solanum lycopersicon and other synonyms or misspellings. This added feature is the result of the project “EURISCO Taxonomy”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture.

May 2018
The project on  “Facilitating use on the European perennial ryegrass collection: improving access to genetic resources and C&E data (ImprovLoliumCol)” submitted by the Forages Working Group and the Documentation and Information Working Group for funding under the Sixth Call  of the ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme, was selected by the Executive Committee. [more info]

December 2017
The Report of the GRIN-Global Workshop 2017 for European Genebanks is now available online. [here]

November 2017
The Report of the EURISCO National Focal Points Training Workshop 2017 is now available online. [here]

September 2017
The EURISCO National Focal Points Training Workshop 2017 was held 12-14 September 2017 in Gatersleben, Germany. [more info]

August 2017
The “GRIN-GLOBAL Workshop 2017 for European Genebanks” took place 29-31 August 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic. [more info]

April 2017
The Report of the EURISCO National Focal Points Training Workshop 2016 is now available online. [here]

December 2016
The project on "GRIN-Global Workshop 2017 for European Genebanks", submitted by the Documentation and Information Working Group for funding under the Fourth Call of the ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme, was selected by the Executive Committee. [more info]

October 2016
EURISCO National Focal Points Training Workshop for Western Europe
The workshop funded by the ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme (Second Call) was held 12-14 October in Angers, France. [more info]

May 2016
Two projects submitted for funding under the Third Call of the ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme and involving the Documentation and Information (D&I) Working Group were selected by the Executive Committee:

• “Assessing linkages between genebanks and direct users (LINKAGES)" [more info]
• "EURISCO National Focal Point Regional Focal Points Training Workshop 2017 (EURISCO Training 2017)" [more info]

February 2016
ECPGR WG for Forages towards 2020s (Forages 2020): the final Activity Report is now available online [here]

December 2015
The project "EURISCO NFP Training Workshop for Western Europe", submitted by the Documentation and Information Working Group for funding under the Second Call of the ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme, was selected by the Executive Committee.  The workshop will take place in France. [more info]

November 2015
- The HordEva project meeting took place in Alnarp, Sweden, 18-20 November 2015. [more info]
- The Forages2020 workshop took place 9-11 November 2015 in Alnarp, Sweden [more info]

September 2015
The Report of the EURISCO National Focal Points Training Workshop 2015 is now available online. [here]

May 2015
EURISCO National Focal Points Regional Training Workshop for Southeast Europe.
The workshop funded by the ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme (First Call) with participants from Albania, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Germany, Italy, Macedonia (FYR), Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain and Türkiye (three participants on self-funded basis) was held 19-21 May 2015 in Tirana, Albania. [more info]

April 2015
"Identification and updating of C&E data in EBDB of AEGIS Hordeum (HordEva)". A first meeting to finalize the detailed workplan for the project took place on 21 April 2015 in Berlin. [more info]

December 2014
Three projects submitted for funding under the ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme and involving the Documentation and Information (D&I) Working Group were selected by the Executive Committee:

• "EURISCO NFP regional training workshop for Southeast Europe 2015 (EURISCO Training 2015)" (D&I Working Group)
• "Identification and updating of C&E data in EBDB of AEGIS Hordeum  (HordEva)" (Barley and D&I Working Groups)
• “ECPGR WG for Forages towards 2020s (Forages 2020)” (Forages, Wild Species Conservation in genetic reserves and D&I Working Groups)

• Working Group Chair’s report for Phase IX (prepared for the Fifteenth ECPGR Steering Committee Meeting) (see here) 

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