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IPK is a leading international research institute in the field of plant genetics and crop plants. Its work clarifies fundamental principles of evolution and plant development, improves the adaptability of important crop plants to changing environmental and climatic...

The Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (IAS) is a research institute of the CSIC. Its purpose is to make food production compatible with the conservation of natural resources and environmental protection. More info at: https://www.ias.csic.es/ More info on the group...

BioCrop Innovations (BCROP) provides microbial solutions to the agricultural sector including plant breeders, farmers, and biologicals providers. In COUSIN, BCROP leads WP4 "Implementing CWRs in breeding and farming" and works closely with breeders and other...

The BETA TC was born in June 2014 to give a definitive boost to the research activity in the field of the environmental technologies at the UVic-UCC. Its main mission is to be a relevant actor for the technological development, the improvement of the competitiveness...

gzpk is a Swiss non-profit organisation that contributes to the production of high-quality food through the development of crop cultivars for organic agriculture. We aim to strengthen the sovereignty of farmers' access to agrobiodiversity. In the breeding process we...

EPSO is an independent academic organisation that represents more than 200 research institutes, departments and universities from 31 countries in Europe and beyond. EPSO’s mission is to improve the impact and visibility of plant science in Europe. Learn more about...

CYBI brings expertise in microbiome sequencing, data processing and inference of microbiome properties, and contributes to the Cousin project by enabling the identification of biomarkers and the microbiome-driven improvement of plant traits.AddressPfeffingerstrasse...

ESSRG is a non-profit company cultivating cross-boundary research in a transdisciplinary fashion, engaging in multi-actor democratic dialogue with natural and social sciences, and other knowledge systems."We nourish a collaborative and cooperative research approach,...

WUR combines knowledge and expertise in plant sciences. With this, they offer new perspectives for sustainable agriculture to their partners from e.g. industry, governments, research institutes and universities.AddressDroevendaalsesteeg 16708 WageningenGelderland...

The University of Lausanne will contribute to Work Package 2 (WP2) by modeling the distribution of Crop Wild Relatives (CWR) in Europe under current and future climate conditions. This will inform the identification of diversity hotspots across geographical and...

AUTH is the largest university in Greece. AUTH has a long collaboration history with the agricultural policy making sector, having participated and coordinated many EU and national research projects and it has extensive experience in the development of agricultural...

URJC is a public university in Madrid, Spain. The Biodiversity and Conservation team is coordinating the consortium and involved in in-situ and ex-situ conservation of CWRs, as well as their phenotyping for intercropping and the seed microbiome. The Data Science team...

Aprisco is a non-profit association working on making agroecology research the basis for rural development in Extremadura (Spain) We foster research in agroecology in the territory using LL methodology for sustainable innovation, mainly involvolving the educative...