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For 2022, 56 countries joined the 6th edition of the worldwide event Fascination of Plants Day to offer over 358 plant-based outreach activities for all interested people from toddlers to grandparents. More events will come as they can be organized six months around its peak on 18 May 2022.
All information about this plant scientists’ initiative can be accessed via www.plantday18may.org.
Fascination of Plants Day is supported world-wide by a network of National Coordinators who voluntarily promote and disseminate the activity within their countries and turn it into a success.
To organize an event in your country, contact its National Coordinator on the FoPD country page. Scientific institutions, universities, botanical gardens, and museums, together with farmers and companies, will open their doors. To enjoy the interactive events, check the same country page.
To read the full press release click here.
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In 2021, thanks to its members, EPSO was offering on its career page almost 100 jobs related to plant sciences. Since 2018, the EPSO website has welcomed more than 12,000 unique visitors. The EPSO career page aggregates one fourth of the 48,718 unique page views turning this page in the second most visited page of EPSO website.
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The fascinating world of plants will be once more in the spotlight thanks to the celebration of the sixth Fascination of Plants Day on and around May 18th 2022.
This coordinated activity aims to plant virtual and constantly germinating seeds in the collective mind of people, recalling that plant science is of critical significance to social, environmental and economic issues on our Earth today and in future.
Scientific institutions, universities, botanical gardens and museums, together with schools, farmers and companies will offer a variety of plant-based interactive events and activities for all interested people from toddlers to grandparents.
Check the FoPD website www.plantday18may.org to know more and find your event around 18 May 2022 and follow us on our social media:
To read the full press release click here.
To hold the fascinating events about the world of plants, which hundreds of colleagues organise across the world, as physical interactive events, the Global and National Coordinators of the international Fascination of Plants Day (FoPD) decided to postpone the next FoPD from 2021 to 18th May 2022.
The Fascination of Plants Day, initiated and coordinated by the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO), is brought to live by a team of National coordinators and hundreds of plant enthusiasts organising events. They invite everybody around the world to organise interactive events on the fascination, secrets, immense potential and manyfold uses of plants for your community, region, country around the 18th May 2022.
This ranges from basic to applied research, agriculture, horticulture, forestry, plant breeding, biodiversity, nourishment and nutrition, plant protection, environmental conservation, renewable resources, healthy and diverse food and high value products for medicine, cosmetics, food and much more.
Already 50 countries have confirmed their National FoPD Coordinators for 2022 and more are welcome to join in.
In 2019, the 5th FoPD generated over 860 interactive events in over 51 countries across the world with many thousand participants. Get inspired by The Fascination of Plants Day Success Stories 2019 for events you may organise.
Meanwhile, a group of FoPD National Coordinators will develop ideas to have some inspiring online events in 2021, the best option in times of remote working around the world, to share their enthusiasm and fascination of plants.
Looking forward preparing with you for most exciting events in 2022 and possibly see some interactive virtual events in 2021.
The FoPD Global and National Coordinators
Click here to read: Full EPSO news 16.10.2020
Contacts:
- FoPD Global Coordinators: Karin Metzlaff & Alexandra Barnoux, EPSO; Trine Hvoslef-Eide, NMBU / NO; Przemysław Wojtaszek, AMU / PL
- FoPD National Coordinators: https://plantday18may.org/countries/ click on the country of your choice.
FoPD 2020 will be ongoing in some countries, led by the respective National Coordinators, while respecting the regulation and restriction regarding the coronavirus.
We invite you to post your FoPD news on Twitter with #FoPD and #PlantDay.
FoPD also has a new Instagram account @fascinationofplantsday. You can follow us for updates on FoPD as well as on our Facebook and Twitter.
We invite the FoPD National Coordinators and event organisers to send pictures and/ or short videos of your activities last year and as appropriate this year in your language (plus English if needed) to raise awareness on this Instagram.
Contacts : Alexandra Barnoux, Publications Officer & Ronald Tipan, Communications Officer
Updated Fascination of Plants Day Success Stories 2017. Over 1000 fascinating events were organised in 52 countries, inspiring worldwide interest in plant science. EPSO welcomes scientists, farmers, industry and educational institutions to join the next official FoPD around 18 May 2019.