TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM Plants for the Future
Ansprechpartner: 
U. Schurr
A new era for plant biotechnology is promised as the European Technology Platform "Plants for the Future" is developing.
The group published its 20 year vision at its launch event with Philippe Busquin, European Research Commissioner, in June 2004 and presented its "Stakeholders Proposal for a Strategic Research Agenda" to reach this vision at a press conference in Strasbourg with Janez Potoènik, European Commissioner for Science and Research, and Giles Chichester, chair of the European Parliament's committee on industry, research and energy, in July 2005.
The group now holds consultations in 22 European Countries and with Mirror Groups of the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Member States. The platform looks forward to the feed-back from these consultations in December this year.
If you wish to receive information on this consultation in a specific country or with a specific Mirror Group, please let us know.
The European Technology Platform "Plants for the Future" is a stakeholder forum on plant genomics and biotechnology that was initiated by the European Commission on the request of the Brussels European Council of March 2003. It is supported by the European Commission via a Specific Support Action in FP6 and the major public and private stakeholders. It is coordinated by EPSO and EuropaBio.
The stakeholders are academia, industry (crop improvement, seed, food, feed, new products, retailers etc.), agricultural, forestry, educational, financial, consumer and environmental organisations.
The four challenges for society to which the plant sector can contribute are articulated in the Vision and Research Agenda papers as:
1. Healthy, safe and sufficient food and feed
2. Sustainable agriculture, forestry and landscape
3. Green products
4. Competitiveness, consumer choice and governance
For further information and opportunities to get involved, please contact the Platform via phone +32-9-331-3950 or e-mail
plantTP@psb.ugent.be letzte Änderung 21.12.2005 | ICG3 Admin | Ausdrucken