Universidad Rey Juan Carlos – URJC

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 is overseeing data management, processing and consolidation.

In COUSIN, two teams are involved (Research Institute for Global Change -IICG and Research Centre for Intelligent Information Technologies-CETINIA )
and their activities are distributed in the following workpackages:

WP2 – Conservation
Task 2.1: Increasing the knowledge of the diversity, the threats and the conservation status of CWR.
Task 2.2: Efficient targeted in-situ conservation of priority CWR.

WP3 –  Characterisation 
Task 3.2: Characterizing CWR benefits in crop management.​

Task 3.5: Exploring the microbiome as a tool to enhance crop performance predictions. ​

WP4 – Breeding & Farming

Task 4.3: Establish pilots across Europe for CWR-based participatory breeding and CWR use for diversified farming systems. ​

WP5 – Data Science
Task 5.1: Development and monitoring of the COUSIN DMP.​

Task 5.2: Provisioning and operation of the project data management platform. ​

Task 5.3: Consolidation of diversity, climate, land use, conservation and characterisation data.