Workshops and Working Group Meetings

EPSO organises top level workshops with a bottom up principle bringing distant disciplines together to break down barriers between disciplines and foster new promising research areas.

EPSO workshops have established a reputation as visionary and high quality think-tank in emerging areas of plant science. Workshop participants compile a white paper defining prioritised objectives that are then communicated to the European Commission and national policy markers. The next workshop will take place in September 2009 and the topic discussed will be plant productivity.

EPSO welcomes scientists to submit an outline for a workshop they would like to organise. Click here for the application form

EPSO also organise brainstorms at short notice. An EPSO Brainstorm is often a much smaller meeting with the aim of exploring a relativly new area which could be the focus of an EPSO workshop in the not too distant future.

General outlines for EPSO Workshops

Previous Workshops and Events:

Meeting on ‘Forestry research’ initiates a new Working Group, Meeting report | EPSO members are invited to join by contacting us, 25.11.14

Working Group Meeting ‘Towards longer term partnerships of scientists from Europe and Developing Countries’, Meeting report 16.10.2014

'Horticulture for the 21^st Century', Berlin (DE), 11-12 November 2013

UCD-EPSO symposium: Can we feed the 9 billion people or will we starve?, ESOF 2012, Dublin (IE), July 2012

FAO-EPSO: Sustainable Crop Production, Rome (IT), June 2012

Kick off of "Fascination of Plants Day", European Parliament, Brussels (BE), May 2012

Plant Pigments and Human Health, nr Gerona (ES), May 2011

Plant Phenotyping, Jülich (DE), Nov 2009

Plant Productivity, Ghent (BE), Sept 2009

Landscape Genomics, Brussels (BE), April 2009 (Brainstorm)

Biofuels, London (UK), May 2008

The Feed Value Chain, Copenhagen, 2007

Molecular Farming, Aachen, 2006

Environmental Plant Biology, Amsterdam. 2005

European Solanaceae genomics consortium preparatory workshop, Brussels, 2003
FP6 - Outcome 1st Call & Conclusions for Future Proposals, Brussels, 2003

Opportunities for plant research in FP6, Cologne, 2002