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International Collaboration in Agricultural Research
addressing global challenges together
Dr. Christine Bunthof
11-12 November 2010, Delhi, India CONFERENCEIndia-EU and Member States Partnership for a strategic Roadmap in Research and Innovation
Note on this Handout version
This handout is slightly different than the presentation given.
● some slides are combined into one, in particular subsequent slides that added information slide by slide to build a list of figure.
● some slides are added, just to provide more information, in particular in the part about ERA-NET Plant Genomics
● slides indicating the different sections have been included to make the structure clearer
Outline of Presentation
● The ERA-NET Scheme
● ERA-NET Plant Genomics
● Grand Challenges for plant research
● Intermezzo Wageningen UR, Netherlands
● Examples of European/international collaborative research projects in agriculture
● Networking research programmes
The ERA-NET Scheme
– the creation of an "internal market" in research(free movement of knowledge, researchers and technology)
– the restructuring of the European research fabric(improved coordination of national research activitiesand policies)
– the development of a European research policy(taking into account other EU and national policies)
3 3 conceptsconcepts
European Research AreaEuropean Research Area
���� ERA-NET Actions help building the European Research Area
The ERA-NET Scheme
● Launched in 2002 under FP6, continued under FP7
● “to step up the cooperation and co-ordination of research activities carried at national and regional level in the Member States and Associated States, through the networking of research programmes, including their mutual opening and the development of joint activities”
● ~ 100 ERA-NET Actions have been launched
● involving over 1000 participations from over 40 countries
● majority of ERA-NETs have launched joint call(s)
● ERA-NETs in areas of biotechnology, agriculture, genomics (non-exhaustive list):
ERA-NET Plant Genomics, ERA-IB, ERA Chemistry, ACE-NET, Euro Trans Bio, Woodwisdom, BiodivERsA, ERA-ARD, Core organic, Euphresco, Safe Food ERA, ERASAGE, ERA Sys Bio, ERA Pathogenomics, agriculture in the mediterranean, Animal health
ERA-NET information at cordis: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/coordination
ERA-NET Plant Genomics
● European Research Area Network in Plant Genomics
● Network of ministries, funding agencies and national research councils
● Co-ordination and co-operation between national plant genomics research programmes
● Working together to stimulate excellent science, drive innovation and create a fruitful environment for commercial exploitation.
● Implementing joint calls with ear-marked national budgets; 2 calls so far 55M
● Basis for continued collaboration, extension of network, new joint initiatives
● Contribution to a strong knowledge-base, contributing to a competitive European bio-economy
● Coordination costs partly covered by EC under FP 6 (ERA-NET Scheme)
NL, CBSGArabidopsis, potato, tomato
ERA-PG built on national plant genomics initiatives
Spain, MECArabidopsis, tomato, potato, grape, pine, oak
UK, GarnetArabidopsis
France , GenoplanteArabidopsis, wheat, corn, rice, rapeseed, sunflower, pea
Germany , GABIArabidopsis, barley, corn, sugarbeet, wheat, potato
Sweden , Finland Arabidopsis,poplar, birch
Italy
Belgium
Denmark
Norway
Austria
ERA-PG collaborates from the start on with the ETP Plants for the future
The Knowledge Based Bio-Economy1.600 Bi Euro
Agriculture, forestry andanimal production
Food products•Fresh food products•Processed foods•Feed
Non-food products•Biochemicals •Biomaterials•Biofuels & bioenergy
Higher yields, sustainable production create added value to the producer
Novel and high quality productscreate value added products for consumers
ERA-PG Work Plan
� Exchange of information and best practice on existing programmes and activities
� Identification and analysis of common strategic issues
� Planning and development of joint activities between national and regional programmes
� Implementation of joint trans-national activities
Step I
Step II
Step III
Step IV
���� ERA-PG Research Programme
Plant GenomicsPlant Genomics
Overarching themes to unify partners
Abiotic and biotic stress
Genomic tools, technologies and resourcesHigh value
crops and non-food crops
Crop and forage plants for low input systems
Use of models and model-
crop translation
Other topics?Yield stability and genetic potential
Quality traits
● Delivery of excellent science in transnational collaboration –true transnational working
● Transparency of process with minimal bureaucracy
● Synergy by collaboration – maximisation of return on funding agency investments
● Joint programme design and operation
● Stimulation of industrial participation and cooperation
● Enhanced profile for EU science in global terms – elevated competitiveness
ERA-PG joint calls – main objectives
ERA-PG 2006 Calls
• 12 Participating funding organisations EWI Belgium, DFG Germany, MIUR Italy, NWO/NGI Netherlands
DRA Denmark, AKA Finland, RCN NorwayFCT Portugal, BBSRC UK, ANR France, BMBF Germany, MEC Spain
• Sub Call A Broad call for publicly funded research in plant genomics
• Sub Call B Trilateral partnership and beyond; the future for European Public-Private Partnerships in Europe
• Two stage review process
Structuring Plant Genomic Research in Europe
ERA-PG 2008 Call
Strengthening the European
Research Area in Plant Genomics
-integrating new technologies in
plant science
• Funders from 9 countries: Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Israel, Netherlands, Portugal, UK and Canada
• One-stage process
• Allocated budget (preliminary) ~ 15 million Euro
Organisation of the ERA-PG joint calls
Participation in the applications (all calls)
Success rates in the ERA-PG joint calls
Evaluation● Learning experiences on developing joint actions
● Common goal, overarching themes
● Agreed procedures for evaluation and selection and for monitoring (distinguish centralised tasks, national tasks, joint tasks)
● (centralized) call secretariat with the expertise, manpower and systems in place
● Commitment, involvement, trust
● Distributed pot worked out well in our calls
● Positive feedback from academic and industrial communitity, in particular for bottom-up approach, transparency, openness to small consortia and low bureaucratic burden
ERA-PG enhances transnational collaboration
Towards Sustainable Collaboration
through a follow-up ERA-NET action: ERA CAPS *
● Underpinned by strong basis from joint calls
● Focus & Strategy (topics, activities, countries)
● Delivery of excellent science in true transnationalcollaboration
● Encourage of industrial participation and cooperation
● Synergy by collaboration – maximisation of return on funding agency investments
● Joint programme design and operation, transparency of process with minimal bureaucracy
● Establish / strenghten collaboration with other ERA-NETs, with Technology Platforms and with Joint Programming Initiatives
* ERA CAPS contact: Dr Rowan McKibbin, BBSRC, UK
Strong basis for competitive European Knowledge-Based Bio-Economy
Wageningen UR (Universiteit & Researchcentrum)
Wageningen UR (Universiteit & Researchcentrum)
� Three units:� Wageningen University� Van Hall Larenstein� DLO – 9 applied research institutes
� Turnover 2009: € 688 million� € 33 million EU projects
� 6500 staff, 10.000 students� Extended network� Large-scale new buildings� Partner in Food Valley
…to explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life…
The Wageningen UR domainhealth, lifestyle, livelihood
healthy food and living environment
food and food production
living environment
Sustainable agricultureNutrition and healthSustainable fisheryBiomassChains
Marine resource management
Landscape and land useNature & Biodiversity
Water managementCompeting claims
Behaviour and perceptionFood security
InstitutionsConsumer
Citizen
Den Helder
Food Valley
All over the country
e.g. our international ‘food alliances’
Offices in Brasil and China
Alliances worldwide
� Science for impact
Wageningen UR develops global networks
� Capacity building
� Strong international orientation and focus
� Students from > 100 countries
� Collaborations with many countries
� Participating in hundreds of FP6 projects
� Key player in FP7 185 projects until now:� Food, agriculture and biotechnology
� Environment, incl. climate change
� Programmes aimed at mobility of young researchers
� Higher success rate than average and benchmark group
� Also active in other FP7 themes
Wageningen UR in international context
The most prominent issues today
� Food security
� Water
� Climate
� Biobased economy
� Sustainability
� Healthy food for a healthy life (ageing)Sustainability
Our main challenges
� Doubling demand for food, reducing footprint
� Breakthrough in knowledge & technology
� Intensive productive systems ‘the way to go’
� Looking for new resources
� Open mind
CO2 per kg product
Porc 4.5 Chicken 2.6 Cashew nuts 2.3 Tofu 2.0
Wageningen UR – India collaborations and interests – 4 examples
1. The potato genome sequencing
2. FP7 project HighNoon
3. FP7 project QBOL
4. Possible topic for collaboration: Biorefineries
The Potato Genome Sequencing Consortium
aim : sequencing the complete genome of potatoIn addition to the benefits acquired from the sequencing the worlds fourth most important food crop the PGSC aims to actively build capacity in countries with less developed a plant genomics infrastructure. The PGSC aims to form the basis of a research network for the scientific exploitationof the sequence data in the post-genomics era.
1. The potato genome sequencing
Rationale for sequencing potato
• Potato is the 4th most important food crop
• Heterozygous self$incompatible tetraploid
• Large untapped gene pool resource
The Potato genome sequence will:
• Help advance plant breeding to fulfil the demands of the increasing
world population
• Enable the rapid generation of markers for breeding
• Enable identification of agronomically important genes
• Facilitate capacity building in less developed countries
• Complement the other Solanaceae$genome projects
1. The potato genome sequencing
1. The potato genome sequencing
1. The potato genome sequencing
The PGSC is a union of collaborating laboratories interested in sequencing the potato genome:
Consortium agreement is set up
Participants have their own grants and financing
Mix of pure academic and commercial partners
Data submission to public databases after 6 month quality>control “grace>period”
For example in the Netherlands a budget of around €11M
various financial resources: €3M FES (chromosome 1), €2M STW (chromosome 5), €4M Matching (Physical map, CBSG sequences etc.), €1M NGI (coordination), €1M WUR (Infrastructure, bioinformatics, etc.)
1. The potato genome sequencing
� Assessment of impact of Himalayan glaciers retreat and possible changes of the Indian summer monsoon on the spatial and temporal distribution of water resources of the Ganga
� Recommendations for appropriate and efficient response strategies for adaptation to hydrological extreme events, including droughts, floods and glacier lakes outburst floods
� Improvement of climate forecast skills at regional scale by improving process knowledge and downscaling techniques
� Integration of socio-economic drivers in climate change studies
2008
CC impacts on water
HIGHNOON:Adaptation to changing water resources availability in Northern India with Himalayan glacier retreat and changing monsoon (www.eu-highnoon.org)
EC contribution of 3.3 M€, end May 2012Coordinator: Eddy Moors, Alterra Wageningen UR
Partners: Europe, India, Japan
2. FP7 project HighNoon
QBOL:QBOL:Development of a new diagnostic tool using Development of a new diagnostic tool using
DNA DNA barcodingbarcoding to identify quarantine to identify quarantine
organisms in support of plant healthorganisms in support of plant health
www.qbol.orgwww.qbol.orgpeter.bonants@wur.nlpeter.bonants@wur.nl
Financed by EU 7th Framework Program, 3 M€, 3 y
3. FP7 project QBOL
Partners QBOLPartners QBOL
www.qbol.orgwww.qbol.org
QBOL consortium: Over 20 QBOL consortium: Over 20
organizations (universities, organizations (universities,
research institutes and research institutes and
phytosanitary organizations) phytosanitary organizations)
in 15 countriesin 15 countries
3. FP7 project QBOL
Why DNA Why DNA barcodingbarcoding??
� Increasing world wide trading of plants enhances risk of spreading harmful organisms
� Decreasing taxonomic knowledge to identify Q-organisms
� Result in significant possible economic damage� DNA barcoding offers accurate identification and
focuses on strengthening the link between traditional and molecular taxonomy
3. FP7 project QBOL
� Which?
� Fungi
� Arthropods
� Bacteria
� Nematodes
� Viruses
� Phytoplasmas
Targets Targets QuarantineQuarantine
� Council Directive 2000/29/EC
� EPPO list A1 and A2
Phytophthora ramorum
Xanthomonas fragariae
Pinewood nematode
PolerovirusPhytoplasm
Anoplophora chinensis
3. FP7 project QBOL
� to DNA barcode relevant Q-organisms + morphologically and/or taxonomically related organisms
� to develop a database of DNA barcode sequences plus relevant taxonomic/geographic/host data
� to develop a DNA bank for the selected set of Q-organisms + morphologically and/or taxonomically related organisms
Three principle QBOL ObjectivesThree principle QBOL Objectives
3. FP7 project QBOL
QBOL: DNA Barcoding for plant healthQBOL: DNA Barcoding for plant health
Source: Duteso
Johan Sanders, Professor Valorisation of Plant Production Chains, Wageningen University and Research center
� Drivers for transition to a biobased economy: shortage of cheap oil ; high energy prices; security of energy supply ; climate change by green house gasses ; rural development ; developing countries ; geo>political conditions
� New biorefinery processes for Dutch bio based economy can be build on Dutch pilars: agriculture, chemistry, ports !
� International interest: Development of small scale biorefineries in collaboration with international partners
4. Possible topic for collaboration: Biorefineries
Green grass proteincompound feed
white grass proteinGrass protein (products)
+ .....
compound feed
Grass juice concentrate
Ethanol
HTU$Biofuel
Construction material+ paper
Polymer extrusion products
Grass juice
Protein
Fibers
Example of Pilot biorefinery line Foxhol (Groningen) (PROGRASS Consortium)
4. Possible topic for collaboration: Biorefineries
Example of a small scale biorrefinery: mobile Cassava starch refinery in Africa
Source: Duteso
4. Possible topic for collaboration: Biorefineries
Networking Research Programmes
● Through the ERA-NET Scheme and with the ETPs
● Through Platforms for EPTs / ERA-NETs
● Through Joint Programming Initiatives!
● Through Partnering Initiatives such the EU India partnering initiative on biomass production and bio waste conversion through biotechnological approaches (Focal point of this sessions C)
● and more
Plant GEMs
Plant GenomicsEuropean Meetings
Berlin2002York 2003Lyon 2004Amsterdam 2005Venice 2006Tenerife 2007Albena 2008
Lisbon 2009
Istanbul, Turkey4-7 May 2011www.plant-gems.org
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
www.erapg.orgchristine.bunthof@wur.nl ERA CAPS contact: rowan.mckibbin@bbsrc.ac.uk
Acknowlegements Project colleagues from all the consortium partners of ERA-Net Plant Genomics;Our scientific officers at the EC: Giorgio Clarotti, Zsuzsanna König, Annette Schneegans Applicants to the calls.slides courtesyKarin Metzlaff EPSO / ETP Plants for the FutureRichard Visser Potato Genome Sequencing ConsortiaEddy Moors Highnoon projectPeter Bonants QBOL projectJohan Sanders Biorefineries
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