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Watch Our Final Interviews: Reflecting on AGENT’s Results and Impact
As the AGENT project comes to a close this month, we spoke with several team members to reflect on their contributions and highlight the project’s key achievements from the past five years. They als...
AGENT Video – Can Genetic Diversity Save Farming?
A new video released by the AGENT project highlights the vital role of traditional crop varieties – known as landraces – in building climate-resilient agriculture. These centuries-old varieties, caref...
AGENT Project Concludes Successful Five-Year Research
The AGENT project, a collaborative research initiative dedicated to activate a global gene bank network to sustainably unlock the genetic diversity of food crops for future generations and make them i...
AGENT Final Project Meeting: Celebrating 5 Years & Looking to the Future
From 1-3 April, the AGENT team will hold its final project meeting at the French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environmentat (INRAE) in Versailles. After five years of dedicate...
The AGENT consortium releases a new policy brief for resilient food systems
The AGENT consortium has released a new policy brief titled "Policy brief: resilient food systems based on biodiversity use". This document highlights the importance of enhancing the accessibility and...
The first AGENT webinar recording is out!
The first webinar in AGENT's exciting series is now available. This first event session brought together over 50 participants, offering valuable insights into the data generated within the AGENT proje...
AGENT Webinar Series: Registration Now Open!
As the AGENT project approaches its conclusion, we are excited to highlight the significant advancements made in data collection and processing. Join us for an engaging webinar series, hosted online i...
Webinar Announcement - Sister Project BreedingValue presents: The Germinate berry database
We are thrilled to announce that our sister project, BreedingValue, will be hosting an informative webinar on the Germinate berry database. The session will take place on 26 November at 10:30 (CET) Wh...
AGENT partners at the 6th Symposium on Cereal Physiology and Breeding
Magdalena Ruiz, Cristina Nieto and Mercedes Pallero from the AGENT partner INIA were participating in the 6th Symposium on Cereal Physiology and Breeding in Salamanca (Spain) on October 16-17, 2024....
AGENT coordinating partner IPK participates in brief policy paper for Digital Sequence Information
Last week, our partner Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research (IPK) co-published an impactful policy brief tackling the challenges and opportunities that digital sequence inform...
AGENT opens its data portal for general access
The AGENT data portal has just been opened for general access, providing access to genotypic and phenotypic data for thousands of wheat and barley accessions from across Europe’s genebanks. New and hi...
PRO-GRACE/EMPHASIS policy symposium and workshop on plant genetic resources and phenotyping
In two days, European project PRO-GRACE will be holding a policy symposium and workshop about plant genetic resources and phenotyping, in collaboration with the EMPHASIS European plant phenotyping i...
Taking a closer look at CREA-CI
The Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA- Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria) is a national institution, supervised by the Italian Ministry of A...
What is WBF Agroscope: Introduction of another project's partner
Swiss research into agriculture, nutrition and the environment
Agroscope is the Swiss public, nonprofit research institution for all sectors of agriculture. Agroscope is associated to the Swiss Fede...
Get to know AGENT partner UZH
At UZH, we embrace diversity and foster an inspiring learning, research, and working environment. With more than 30’000 students and staff hailing from over 120 countries, our institution thrives on i...
AGENT joint workshop with INCREASE
In an exciting collaboration between two Horizon 2020-funded projects, Nils Stein, the AGENT project coordinator, delivered a concise and informative presentation during a joint workshop session with...
Cultivating diversity – AGENT wheat and barley accessions on display during a farmers’ field day in the Tuscan hills
On 9-10 June 2023, the Italian seed diversity network Rete Semi Rurali (RSR) organized their annual field days at the organic farm Floriddia in Tuscany. RSR is participating in the evaluation of sel...
What is TAU: Introduction of another project's partner
What is TAU?
TAU stands for Tel Aviv University, Israel, however, to AGENT, contributes mainly the Institute for Cereal Crops Improvement (ICCI), which is part of its Faculty of Life Sciences. It wa...
AGENT 3rd Progress meeting in Poland
On May 23-24, 2023, the H2020 AGENT project partners assembled in person for the 3rd Project Progress meeting. This time, the event was warmly hosted by IHAR-PIB near Warsaw, with 57 representatives f...
International Day for Biodiversity 2023
Today, AGENT observes the International Day for Biodiversity, supporting efforts in increasing understanding and raising awareness of biodiversity.
This year’s theme of “From Agreement to Action: B...
EU Knowledge Valorisation Week 2023: Learn More on Turning Research into Solutions
Join stakeholders and policymakers at the EU Knowledge Valorisation Week between 25 April and 28 April 2023. The annual event highlights best practices promoting the uptake of research results and sci...
Taking a closer look at INIA-CSIC
The National Institute of Agricultural and Food Research and Technology (Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria, INIA) belongs to the Spanish Research Council (Agencia...
AGENT train-the-trainer workshop
The AGENT partner IPK Gatersleben hosted the first AGENT training on 7 and 8 March 2023 to train trainers from gene banks and research institutes and provide them with knowledge of AGENT tools for dat...
AGENT wheat trials visit
On January 27, 2023, within the framework of the exchange of experience between the scientists, the representatives of the Plant Breeding group of the School of Agricultural, Food and Biosystems Engin...
Get to know AGENT partner NPPC
NPPC is a research organization under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Slovakia involving seven research institutes. It is the only research organization in Slovakia dealing with s...
Spotlight on WAGENINGEN RESEARCH (WR)
For more than a century Wageningen University & Research (WUR), which the Foundation Wageningen Research (WR) is part of, has been involved in research in the domain of healthy food and living environ...
Spotlight on ICARDA
The international center for agricultural research in the dry areas (ICARDA) is one of 15 CGIAR centers that jointly represent a global research partnership for a food secure future, dedicated to redu...
Interview with AGENT Coordinator Prof. Nils Stein
During the 2nd progress meeting in Prague in May 2022 Czech journalist did an interview with the AGENT Coordinator Prof. Nils Stein asking questions about the project:
Talks, a field visit and an in-person get-together: 2nd progress meeting of AGENT in Prague
From 10 until 12 May 2022, the AGENT project held its 2nd progress meeting. Partners were able to attend the meeting in Prague or virtually. Following many online conversations since the project start...
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
On 11th February 2022, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science is celebrated for the 7th time. It is dedicated to showing and acknowledging the important contributions of female scientists...
DivSeek International Network: Webinar recording of AGENT flash talk now available
On 21 September 2021 flash talks by project leads of the Horizon 2020 GENRES projects introduced six projects from the same call entitled “Horizon 2020 GENRES projects –Joining forces for genetic reso...
Post-Doc opportunity at CREA
The Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops of CREA, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, is looking for a Post-Doc Fellow for one year, renewable for additional years until the du...
International Day for Biological Diversity 2021
22 May marks the International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB). Established by the United Nations in 1993, this global initiative aims to increase understanding and awareness of biodiversity issues...
AGENT phenotyping data management
A webinar and a 2-day datathon have been organised to help the management of the phenotyping data.
The webinar was open to other projects and the whole community. It introduced the Minimal Informati...
AGENT features in CREA's innovation week
The project partner Consiglio per la Ricerca in Agricoltura e l'Analisi dell'Economia Agraria - Centro di Ricerca Cerealicoltura e Colture Industriali (CREA-CI) produced a short video describing the p...
Crop Analysis Tools: Join These Upcoming Online Workshops
The 'German Network for Bioinformatics Infrastructure – de.NBI', in which several AGENT partners are actively involved, provides new online workshops inviting you to learn more about its crop analys...
DivSeek International Network: Webinar Recording from AGENT Coordinator
On 8 September 2020, the DivSeek International Network invited AGENT Coordinator Prof. Nils Stein to contribute to its webinar series. In his session entitled "Genebank genomics to brigde the gap...
AGENT virtually kicks off project activities to mark successful project start
From 18-19 May 2020 the AGENT project was officially launched at its virtual kick-off meeting. The kick-off meeting was introduced by the scientific coordinator Prof. Nils Stein followed by short pres...
