Presentation of the Argentinean Programmes – Armando Bertanou President of National Agency of Scientific and Technology Promotion - MINCyT

Presentation of the EU 7 th Framework Programme and its international Dimension - Line Matthiessen, Head of Coordination Unit, Directorate for Biotehnologies, Agriculture and Food Research, European Commission

Presentation of BIOTECSUR (Mercosur Biotech Platform) – Esteban Corley ( Director of Biotech )

Presentation of the objectives and nature of the “twinning” mechanism (Objectives and instruments within FP7 and Argentinean programs) – Jean-Francois Maljean Scientific co-ordinator, Directorate for Biotechnologies, Agriculture and Food Research, European Commission and Eduardo Trigo FAFB National Contact Point – International Relation National Directorate MINCyT adviser

Detailed programme and expectations from the workshop – Jean-Francois Maljean and Eduardo Trigo

Questions and Answers  

ENDURE (EU) – Alexander D. Percy-Smith; University of Aarhus, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, Aarhus, Denmark

INTA-IPM and No-Till – Daniel A. Ducasse , Instituto de Fitopatologia y Fisiologia Vegetal - INTA

GLIP and GL-TTP (EU) – Noel Ellis, John Innes Centre, Norwich , United Kingdom

Soybean-BIOTECSUR – Alilio Castagnaro , Estacion Experimental Agroindustrial Obispo Colombres

4F CROPS (EU) - Efthimia Alexopoulou, Center for Renewable Energy Sources, Biomass Department , Greece

Sunflower-Argentina – Raquel L. Chan , Facultad de Bioquimica y Ciencias Biologicas – Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Santa Fe

Sweetfuel (EU) – Serge Braconnier, CIRAD, Biological Systems Department, Montpellier , France

Eucalyptus-BIOTECSUR, Susana Marcucci , Instituto de Biotechnologia, INTA-Castelar

TriticaeGenome (EU) – Catherine Feuillet , INRA, Department of Genetics, Diversity and Ecophysiopogy of Grains, Clermont-Ferrand , France

WheatBiotechnology-Argentina- Marcelo Helguera , Estacion Experimental Agropecuaria – Marcos Juarez, Gordoba

VALORAM (EU) – Javier Franco, PROINPA Foundation, Cochabamba, Bolivia; Stephan Declerck, Catholic University of Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (by phone)

SoilGeneticResources-Argentina – Alejandro Mentaberry , INDEAR/Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales - UBA

BIOSPAS-Argentina - Luis G. Wall , Universidad Nacional de Quilmes

MycoRed (EU) – Antonio F. Logrieco , National Research Council, Institute of Sciences of Food Production, Bari , Italy

Mycotoxins-Argentina – Sofia N. Ghulze Facultad de Ciencia Exactas, Fisico-Quimica y Naturales – Universidad Nacional de Rio Cuarto  

Session 3 (9:00-11:00)  
Introduction to the session - JF Maljean (EC) and Eduarto Trigo (Arg)

Bilateral face-to-face meetings between Argentinean and European project coordinators and representatives to discuss “twinning profiles”: expectations, common objectives, work plan, agendas and tentative budgets for future twinning activities

Session 4 (11:30-13:30) Session co-chairs: Line Matthienssen (EC) and Aguela Menvielle (Arg) n Rapporteur: Tomasz Calikowski (EC)  

Introduction to the session JF Maljean and Eduarto Trigo

Round table presentations of the “twinning profiles” resulting from session 3

Open discussion on common and horizontal issues: identification of difficulties, opportunities and challenges, practicalities and follow-up plan

Session conclusions by the rapporteur Tomasz Calikowski and guidance for the next steps

Final workshop conclusions Line Matthienssen and Eduardo Trigo