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VI EUCARPIA - Section Organic and Low-Input Agriculture – Call for Abstracts

PRO-WILD is a partner project for the VI EUCARPIA Conference on Organic and Low-Input Agriculture in Coimbra, Portugal, from May 26-28, 2025. Deadline for abstract submission: Wednesday, 31st January 2025.

Banner for the 7th EUCARPIA Conference on breeding to address environmental and societal challenges, held from 26–28 May 2025 at the Instituto Politecnico de Coimbra, Portugal.

The upcoming VI EUCARPIA Conference focuses on “Breeding to Meet Environmental and Societal Challenges”. Hosted at the Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra – ESAC from May 26th to May 28th 2025, the conference will bring together researchers, breeders, seed companies, students and stakeholders to discuss the latest developments in sustainable plant breeding.

The conference will place special emphasis on breeding for organic and agroecology, with oral and poster presentations from a wide range of disciplines and methodologies on the following nine topics.

Breeding to meet environmental challenges:

  • Addressing abiotic stresses
  • Combining sustainability and resource use efficiency
  • Addressing biotic challenges
  • Breeding for greenhouse gas mitigation/C-sequestration

Breeding to meet environmental challenges:

  • Breeding for agrobiodiversity and ecosystem services
  • Breeding for healthy food (nutritional quality, taste, cultural heritage)/culinary breeding

Breeding to meet societal challenges: 

  • Participatory breeding and on-farm cultivar testing
  • Innovative financial and governance models
  • Impact of EU regulation on organic agriculture and rural development (NGT regulation, PRM regulation)

By participating in the conference, PRO-WILD aims to promote dialogue and collaboration with initiatives that share similar goals.

Please ensure you submit your abstract before January 31st, 2025.

EUCARPIA, the European Association for Research on Plant Breeding, is a non-profit organisation established in 1956 that promotes scientific and technical cooperation in plant breeding to foster its development. It organises conferences and colloquia across Europe, facilitating the exchange of methods and specialised knowledge among its members. EUCARPIA comprises 11 sections, each focusing on specific research areas or crop groups.

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