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Botanic Gardens Conservation International
Bioversity International
European Forest Institute
Executive Agency for Selection and Reproduction in Animal Breeding, Bulgaria
Natural Resources Institute, Finland
Institut de l’Elevage, France
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, France
Federal Office for Agriculture and Food, Germany
The Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research, Germany
University of Padova, Italy
University Saint-Joseph of Beirut, Lebanon
Centre for Genetic Resources at the University of Wageningen, Netherlands
Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Norway
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Slovenian Forestry Institute, Slovenia
ProSpecieRara, Switzerland
University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
PartnersThe partnership that makes up GenRes Bridge gathers all the expertise needed to develop ambitious approaches and strategies to manage genetic resources, to foster biodiversity conservation and to improve capacities across Europe and beyond.
For more information, please visit the project website at www.genresbridge.eu or contact [email protected]
The three networks that represent crop, forest and animal genetic resources communities:• European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) www.ecpgr.cgiar.org• European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN) www.euforgen.org/• European Regional Focal Point for Animal Genetic Resources (ERFP) www.animalgeneticresources.net
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 817580
JOINING FORCESFOR GENETIC RESOURCES AND BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
GenRes BridgeGenetic resources for a food-secureand forested Europe
PROJECT DURATION: 3 years (Jan 2019-Dec 2021)
BUDGET: 3 million EUR
FUNDING AGENCY: European Commission (H2020 scheme, grant agreement No 817580)
COORDINATOR: European Forest Institute
Basic info
ECP GR
The project will work with a broad range of national and international stakeholders, including policymakers, breeders, researchers, farmers, foresters, gardeners, collection and site managers, environmental planners, actors along food and product supply chains and consumers.
Stakeholders will be engaged throughout the life of the project, through direct interactions, surveys, panels, external advisory board and networking events.
Objectives Who will do it?Why? Expected resultsStakeholders
GenRes Bridge aims to strengthen conservation and sustainable use of genetic resources (GenRes).
By genetic resources, we mean the heritable materials maintained within and among agricultural crops, tree species or animal breeds, of actual or potential economic, environmental, scientific or societal value.
The project brings together the three pan-European GenRes networks: ECPGR for plants, EUFORGEN for forests and ERFP for livestock. Participants will share perspectives, exchange best practices, harmonise standards and broadly improve capacities across the plant, forest and animal domains.
ECPGR, EUFORGEN and ERFP are networks that represent crop, forest and animal GenRes communities. For the past few decades they have operated more or less in isolation, each collecting knowledge from member countries in their own domain and creating individual standards, infrastructures and outputs.
All have much to share with and learn from one another.
Genetic resources are the underlying basis of agriculture and forestry, a prerequisite for ensuring food security and other primary production such as timber. Healthy forests also supply ecosystem services such as water management and contribute to the spiritual well-being of people. Agriculture and forestry need GenRes to be able to adapt and respond to challenges such as climate change.
Several international policy frameworks call for improved conservation of crop, forest and animal genetic diversity: EU Biodiversity Strategy, Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD); UN Sustainable Development Goals, and the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe.
GenRes Bridge is a response to convert these calls into action.
The European Integrated Strategy for the conservation and use of crop, forest and animal genetic resources
GenRes Bridge will capitalise on domain-specific knowledge and resources and unite the networks to develop an integrated strategy for conservation and use of genetic resources of crops, forests and animals. This strategy will be the backbone of a European-wide approach to the conservation and management of GenRes.
GenRes Gateway
A user-oriented website will serve as an entry point to the GenRes landscape. The site will help visitors to identify key actors and to find the information they need – from guidelines on seed collection and genebank management to case studies of how different breeding approaches affect genetic diversity.
—If you would like to contribute to the project in any way, please get in touch: [email protected] We welcome all suggestions.
