II Workshop on
Twinning opportunities in Soil, Plant and Food research
Between the European Union, Argentina and MERCOSUR
Athens, June 30 & July 1, 2010
Golden Age Hotel of Athens , 57 Michalakopoulou, 115 28 Athens , Greece
Wednesday, June 30
Photo Gallery | 9:00 – 10:00 | Welcome and introduction session |
| Representative from Greece , Dr. Ioannis Agapitidis , President of Center for Renewable Energy Sources CRES , Athens |
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| Representative from the Commission, Dr. Line Matthiessen-Guyader, Head of Unit 'Coordination and Horizontal Aspects', Directorate E, DG Research, European Comm is sion | |
| Representative from Argentina , Dr. Eduardo Trigo, Min is try of Science, Technology and Innovation, Argentina | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee break |
| 10:30-12:30 | Session 1 |
| New partner in Twinning: project AgroCos (EU) Leandros Skaltsoun is (GR), University of Athens | |
| Project FP6-GLIP (EU) Veroniqué Gruber (FR) Institut des Sciences Végétales – CNRS | |
| - Working session of the “twins” - Preparation of joint presentations | |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch break |
| 14:00-19:00 | Session 2 – Chair: Tomasz Calikowski (EC) |
| - Joint presentations of each twinning project (activities developed, future work programme, expectations, etc.) (20 min max for each presentation) - Followed by d is cussion (20 min) | |
| WheatBiotechnology-Argentina – Marcelo Helguera , Viviana Echenique, Estación Experimental Agropecuaria – Marcos Juarez, Córdoba | |
| TriticaeGenome (EU) - Catherine Feuillet (FR), INRA, Department of Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiology of Grains, Clermont-Ferrand , France | |
| VALORAM (EU) – Stephan Declerck (BE), Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve , Belgium | |
| SoilGeneticResources-Argentina – Alejandro Mentaberry , Martin P. Vazquez, INDEAR / facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales – UBA & |
| 16:30-17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00-19:00 | Session 2 cont . Chair: Annette Schneegans (EC) |
| ENDURE (EU) - Pierre Ricci (FR) Institut Sophia Agrobiotech, France | |
| INTA-IPM and No-Till (AR)– Daniel A. Ducasse, Instituto de Fitopatologia y F is iologia Vegetal - INTA | |
| Mycotoxins-Argentina – Laura Ramirez , Faculdad de Ciencias Exactas, F is ico-Quimica y Naturales, Universidad de Rio Cuarto | |
| MycoRed (EU) – Antonio Moretti (IT), Institute of Sciences of Food Production National Research Council , Italy | |
| BIOSPAS-Argentina – Lu is G. Wall, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes |
| Dinner hosting by CRES (starting from the hotel Golden Age at 20:00) |
Thursday, July 1
| 8:30-11:00 | Session 3 Chair: Eduardo Trigo ( Argentina ) continued joint working sessions |
| Soybean-BIOTECSUR – Alilio Castagnaro (AR) , Estación Experimental Agroindustrial Ob is po Colombres | |
| FP6-GLIP (EU) – Veroniqué Gruber (FR) Institut des Sciences Végétales – CNRS | |
| Legumes-Futures (EU) - Bob Reese, ( UK), SAC | |
| 4F CROPS (EU) - Efthimia Alexopoulou (GR) , Center for Renewable Energy Sources, Biomass Department , Greece | |
| INTA-IPM and No-Till – Daniel A. Ducasse (AR) , Instituto de Fitopatologia y F is iologia Vegetal – INTA | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee break |
| 11:30-13:00 | Session 4 (11:30 – 13:00) Chairs: Line Matthiessen-Guyader (EC) Eduardo Trigo ( Argentina ) |
| General d is cussion of is sues emerging for project presentation, and the next steps Final workshop conclusions | |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch break |
| 14:30-16:00 | Working session for the twins (optional) |
| 16:00 | End of the workshop |
