Collaboration

Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Gabriele Berg
Graz University of Technology
Head of Institute of Environmental Microbiology

Micaela Colley
Organic Seed Alliance (USA)
Director of Research Program

David Gould
FoodChain ID
Global Head, Sustainability Programs

Göran Ekbladh
Swedish Board of Agriculture
Officer Organic Farming

Annette Schneegans
European Commission  DG Agriculture and Rural Development
B.2 Research and Innovation Senior Expert

em. Prof. Dr. Edith Lammerts van Bueren
Researcher and emeritus professor of organic plant breeding, Wageningen University

Prof. Dr. Ferdinando Branca
University of Catania (IT)
Coordinator of BRESOV project

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Meglic
Agricultural Insitute of Slovenia
Coordinator of ECOBREED project

Related projects

BRESOV is a research project focusing on breeding for resilient, efficient and sustainable organic vegetable production, focus crops are broccoli, tomato and snap bean. [2018 – 2022]

DIVERSIFOOD will evaluate and enrich the diversity of cultivated plants within diverse agroecosystems so as to increase their performance, resilience and quality. [2015 -2019]

DIVERSify, designing innovative plant teams for ecosystem resilience and agricultural sustainability. [2017 – 2021]

ECOBREED is a research project aiming to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of organic crop breeding for: wheat, potato, soybean, buckwheat. [2018 – 2023]

HealthyMinorCereals looks at an integrated approach to diversify the genetic base, improve stress resistance, agronomic management and nutritional/processing quality of minor cereal crops for human nutrition. [2013 – 2018]

ReMix will exploit the benefits of species mixtures to design more diversified and resilient agro-ecological arable cropping systems. [2017 – 2021]

TRADITOM is a Research and Innovation project that focuses on the identification and valorisation of European traditional tomato varieties and their cultural practices. [2015 – 2018]