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EPGRIS final meeting
Establishment of an European Plant
Genetic Resources Information Infra-Structure
(EPGRIS)
Theo van Hintum
Centre for Genetic Resources, The Netherlands
(CGN)
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EPGRIS - contents

• history
• project participants
• objective
• philosophy
• funding
• approach
• achievements
• expected
• achieved
• final remarks

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EPGRIS - history

• exploration possibilities for EU-GENRES project
• first meeting in Wageningen February 25th , 1994
• participants CGN, ZADI, HRIGRU and SASA
• evolution ideas and consortium
• names EUGENE - EGRIS
• proposal to EU-GENRES
• submitted May 23rd, 1995
• rejected February 6th, 1996

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EPGRIS - history

• evolution proposal
• new consortium based on ECP/GR Internet Advisory
  Group
• new title - EPGRIS
• new workplan (incl. National Inventories)
• ECP/GR survey of National Coordinators July 1st,
  1999
• proposal to EC Fifth Framework Programme
• proposal submitted November 12th, 1999
• proposal approved April 11th, 2000
• contract signed August 27th, 2000
• project started October 1st, 2000

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EPGRIS - project participants

• Centre for Genetic Resources, The Netherlands
  (CGN)
• Theo van Hintum
• International Plant Genetic Resources Institute
  (IPGRI)
• Lorenzo Maggioni, Brigitte Laliberté, Samy Gaiji
  Milko Skovic
• Nordic Gene Bank (NGB)
• Dag Terje Endresen
• Bureau des Ressources Genetiques (BRG)
• Véronique Jamilloux
• Research Institute of Crop Production (RICP)
• Iva Faberova
• Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária (INIA)
• Eliseu Bettencourt
• Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und
  -information (ZADI)
• Frank Begemann Sabine Roscher

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EPGRIS - objective

• to establish an European Search Catalogue
• with passport information of Plant Genetic
  Resources (PGR) maintained ex situ in Europe
• which is frequently updated,
• and publicly accessible via Internet

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EPGRIS - philosophy
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EPGRIS - philosophy
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EPGRIS - philosophy

• possibility of automation
• can be kept up-to-date
• result monitor

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EPGRIS - approach

• each country prepares a National Inventory
• organised by National Focal Person
• with EPGRIS support (meeting technology)
• standardised format
• EURISCO acts as European Search Catalogue
• uploads from National Inventories
• continued after EPGRIS by ECP/GR

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EPGRIS - funding

• EU Fifth Framework Programme 1998-2002
• concerted action to set up network and database
• budget 480,470
• ECP/GR and IPGRI
• priority activity
• support to non-EU countries
• National Programmes
• creation National Inventories

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EPGRIS - approach
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EPGRIS - project work plan

• starting date October 1st, 2000
• running period 36 months
• total of 10 workpackages
• workpackages A1-A4 creation of a network of
  National PGR Inventories
• workpackages B1-B4 creation of the European
  Search Catalogue
• workpackages C1-C2 coordination

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EPGRIS - project work plan
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EPGRIS - expected achievements

• creation network of National PGR Inventories
• in EU and associated states (other European
  countries on a self-funding basis)
• creation of EURISCO
• frequently and automatically updated
• data on gt 70 of the PGR accessions held in
  Europe
• spin-off
• improved collaboration between European genebanks
• increased capacity to manage PGR documentation

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EPGRIS - expected achievements

• global perspective
• EURISCO is European node in global PGR
  information network

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EPGRIS - achievements

• Network of National Inventory Focal Persons was
  created
• 39 National PGR Inventory Focal Persons
  representing 41 countries were nominated
• potentially used as European Plant Genetic
  Resources Infra-Structure

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EPGRIS - achievements

• Focal Persons region 1
• Belarus undecided
• Denmark Mr Paul Regenberg
• Estonia Mr Vahur Kukk
• Finland Mr Dag Terje Endresen (via NGB)
• Germany Mr Frank Begemann
• Iceland Mr Dag Terje Endresen (via NGB)
• Latvia Mr Gunar Lacis
• Lithuania Ms Ausra Lazauskiene
• Norway Mr Aasmund Asdal
• Poland Mr Wieslaw Podyma
• Russia Mr Andrew Omelchenko
• Sweden Mr Dag Terje Endresen (via NGB)

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EPGRIS - achievements

• Focal Persons region 2
• Cyprus Ms Athena Della
• Greece Mr Nikolaos Stavropoulos
• Isreal Mr Nissim Yonash
• Italy Mr Fabrizio Grassi
• Malta Ms Marica Gatt
• Portugal Ms Sónia Dias
• Spain Mr Federico Varela
• Turkey Mr Ahmet Semsettin Tan

Cyprus Israel
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EPGRIS - achievements

• Focal Persons region 3
• Albania Mr Adriatik Çakalli
• Armenia Ms Natalia Rukhkyan
• Austria Mr Wolfgang Kainz
• Azerbaijan Mr Zeynal Akparov
• Bosnia - Herze. Ms Selma Sose
• Bulgaria Ms Siyka Stoyanova
• Croatia Mr Ivica Liovic
• Czech Republic Ms Iva Faberová
• Georgia Ms Tamar Jinjikhadze
• Hungary Mr László Holly
• Macedonia Mr Gjorji Miskovski
• Moldova Mr Anatol Ganea
• Romania Mr Dumitru Dascalu
• Slovakia Ms Maria Zaková
• Slovenia Mr Vladimir Meglic
• Ukraine Mr Ivan N. Drepin
• Yugoslavia Mr Drazen Jelovac

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EPGRIS - achievements

• Focal Persons region 4
• Belgium Mr Marc Lateur
• France Ms Véronique Jamilloux
• Ireland Mr Donal Harney
• Netherlands Mr Theo van Hintum
• Switzerland Mr Geert Kleijer
• United Kingdom Ms Helen Ougham

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EPGRIS - achievements

• 2x 4 regional meetings have been organised to
  support and co-ordinate creation of NIs
• attendance regional meetings

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EPGRIS - achievements

• 5 workshops have been organised
• Training workshop on PGR documentation building
  a national ex situ PGR inventory.
• attendance workshops

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EPGRIS - achievements

• 7 staff visits have been organised
• Wieslaw Podyma (POL) visited ZADI
• Ausra Lazauskiene (LTU) and Andrew Omelchenko
  (RUS) visited NGB
• Attila Simon (HUN) visited CGN
• NGB visited Russia (2x) and Estonia

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EPGRIS - achievements

• nearly all countries involved have created a
  National Inventory
• 27 NIs were uploaded to EURISCO in testing phase
• 13 NIs available on-line via EURISCO website
• 11 NIs, 306927 accessions, loaded in EURISCO
  (August 29th)

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EPGRIS - achievements

• EPGRIS web-site has been created
• point of reference to all involved and all
  interested
• providing access to documents, addresses,
  National Inventories, etc.
• including intranet for EPGRIS participants

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EPGRIS - achievements

• pan-European meeting of all Focal Persons plus
  CCDB managers has been organised
• close collaboration with ECP/GR
• c. 100 participants from c. 40 countries

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EPGRIS - achievements

• and, of course,

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EPGRIS - achievements

• EURISCO
• technical structure based on SINGER
• automatic data validation and upload
• web site including dynamic user interface
• potential for further expansion

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EPGRIS - achievements

• other achivements
• baseline of PGR documentation in national reports
  and questionnaires
• more attention to documentation in genebanks
• model for other PGR documentation networks
• 2 coordination meetings, many technical and
  discussion papers, topical presentations,
  publications, etc.

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EPGRIS - achievements

• overview achievements
• network of 39 National Inventory Focal Persons
• 2x 4 regional meetings
• 5 workshops
• 7 staff visits
• many National Inventories
• EPGRIS web-site
• pan-European PGR documentation meeting
• EURISCO
• much more

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EPGRIS - final remarks

• EURISCO - major achievement
• time was right (technology and policy)
• support by policy makers (EU, ECP/GR)
• tremendous input from very many !!!!