European Crop Wild Relative Diversity Assessment & Conservation Forum

1. European Crop Wild Relative Diversity Assessment & Conservation Forum WELCOME PGR Forum (Plant Genetic Resources Forum)

2. Workshop 1 General Objectives • Introduce participants and advisory board to PGR Forum • Review project management, finance, reporting and exit strategy • Agree on communication tools and project publicity • Review PGR Forum workpackage objectives and plan thematic workshops

3. PGR Forum: An Opportunity For PGR Discourse • Framework 5 Programme for Research • Key action 2 ‘Global change, climate and biodiversity’ • 2.2.3 ‘Assessing and conserving biodiversity’

4. PGR Forum: An Opportunity For PGR Discourse • Thematic Network • Duration • 36 Months • start date 1st November 2002 • EC Funding Received • 733,700 € = AN OPPORTUNITY

5. PGR Forum Aim PGR Forum’s aim is to provide a European forum for the assessment of taxonomic (species) and genetic (molecular) diversity of European crop wild relatives and develop appropriate methodologies that can be applied to conserve this diversity.

6. PGR Forum Objectives 1 To achieve this aim PGR Forum has five subordinate objectives: • To debate the assessment and conservation of European crop wild relative plant genetic resourcesat species and component population levels • To produce an assessment of baseline biodiversity data, threat and conservation status for crop wild relatives

7. PGR Forum Objectives 2 • To develop in situ methodologies: • Data structures and documentation • Management and monitoring regimes • Assessment of genetic erosion • Assessment of genetic pollution • To communicate project results to European stakeholders, policy makers and user groups • To establish a European forum that enhances dialogue between European national and regional crop wild relatives conservationists, the policy makers and end-users communities.

8. PGR Forum Rationale 1 • Convention on Biological Diversity • FAO State of the World Report • International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture • FAO Global Plan of Action for Europe • European Community Biodiversity Strategy • European Plant Conservation Strategy

9. PGR Forum Rationale 2 • Critical loss of species and plant genetic diversity (21% of Europe’s vascular plants are classified as threatened by IUCN) • Conservation strategies are seriously hampered (a) gaps in basic biodiversity data and (b) lack of appropriate genetic conservation techniques • Sustainable genetic resource use and wealth creation

10. PGR Forum Community • Plant genetic conservationists (e.g. ECP/GR, IPGRI) • Plant conservationists (e.g. IUCN, EEA, Planta Europa) • Taxonomists (e.g. Euro+Med)

11. PGR ForumWork Programme 1 • The project will be implemented through a series of interrelated workpackages: • WP1 European crop wild relative assessment. • European list of crop wild relatives • With minimum biodiversity data • WP2 Threat and conservation assessment. • Assess relative threat using IUCN Red List criteria • Current in situ and ex situ conservation status • WP3 In Situ Data management methodologies. • Formulate data structures, data management and analysis methodologies (including GIS) for in situ (genetic reserve and on-farm) plant conservation

12. PGR ForumWork Programme 2 • WP4 Population management methodologies • Formulate methodology for generation of management plans • Formulate monitoring techniques for in situ plant genetic conservation • WP5 Genetic erosion and genetic pollution methodologies • Formulate molecular, ethnobotanical and other methodologies to assess genetic erosion • Formulate molecular, ethnobotanical and other methodologies to assess genetic pollution (conventionally and biotechnologically)

13. PGR Forum Partners • Five workshops + dissemination conference • 23 partners from: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland,France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovak Republic, Spain, Sweden, Romania, Russia, United Kingdom, IUCNand IPGRI • Universities, government, European and international organisations

14. PGR Forum Management Workpackage 1 Workpackage2 Advisory Board Workpackage 3 Project Coordinator European Commission Workpackage 4 Steering Committee Workpackage 5 Workpackage Coordinators Workpackage 6 18+5 Project Participants Stakeholder Panel PGR Forum Products Web Page / Crop Relative database & CD / Newsletter / Reports / Conference Proceedings / Academic papers

15. PGR ForumSpecific Innovations • European crop wild relative database • Data structure and documentation methodology • Population in situ management and monitoring methodology • Genetic erosion and genetic pollution assessment methodology • Improved and facilitated access to European crop wild relative data via web site • Increased national European crop wild relative capacities • Conservation gap analysis

16. PGR Forum Finance • Personnel costs • Project Officer and Workshop Assistants • Equipment • Disallowed • Travel • 18 full partners • 4 additional partners from Eastern European countries • France • Advisory Panel (8 x 2) • End user / policy makers (8 x 1) • Other • Publications, Newsletter, CD, Software • Overheads • 20% to each partners

17. Personnel costs • Project Officer 38 months (188,541€) • Coordinator 53 hours (8,557€) • Workshop Assistants WP1 – 1 month GB / EL (1,372€ / 1,050€) WP2 – 1 month DK / IUCN (2,874€ / 2,100€) WP3 – 1 month DE (5,621€) WP4 – 1 (2) month ES (9,685€) WP5 – 1 month PT / GB (1,158 / 1,513€) WP6 – 2 months IPGRI (10,928€) WP6 – 3 months IPGRI (16,312€)

18. PGR Forum Equipment • Disallowed • Project equipment supplied by the University of Birmingham

19. Travel Costs • Partners x 18 • Flights • Workshop costs • Preparation and post-workshop work costs • Overall costs vary between partners (8,671 – 13,729€) • Eastern European countries • All (7,806€) • France • Workshop costs only • Coordination • Advisory Panel (8 x 2{+1}) = (19,188€) • 4 x End users / 4 x policy makers (8 x 1) = (5,440€)

20. Other Costs • Publications (production & dissemination) • Newsletter x 6 (28,500€) • CD of database (5,100€) • Software (8,690€) • Books ? • Total costs = 733,700€ • Overheads • 20%

21. Project Reporting • Technical • Every 12 months • Submission of completed proforma to Project Officer • Project Officer and Coordinator to collate and submit to EC • Financial • Every 12 months • Full partners submit direct to EC • See Contract Annex II p. 23-24 for eligible costs • 4 Additional Eastern European partners to submit receipts to Project Officer every 12 months • France’s participation partially funded • Project Officer and Coordinator to collate and submit to EC

22. Communications and publicity • Participant contacts list • Intra-project communication • Project logo • Project newsletter: content, format, audience • Publicity opportunities e.g IPGRI Newsletter for Europe, Plant Talk, Botanic Gardens Conservation News, Species

23. Expense claims:Subsistence • Participants to pay own hotel bill and claim from their PGR Forum budget, EXCEPT: • Additional participants: Lazslo Holly, Martine Mitteau, Wieslaw Podyma, Diana Rusu and Tamara Smekalova • Advisory board: Stephen Jury and Helmut Knüpffer

24. Expense claims:Subsistence • What IS included: • Room, meals, transport and excursion • What IS NOT included! • Telephone and internet usage, mini bar, hotel bar, and alcoholic drinks with meals

25. Expense claims:Travel • Participants to claim travel expenses from their PGR Forum budget • Keep all receipts for end of year reporting • Make copies of receipts for your own record • WS1 Additional participants and Advisory Board to complete UoB claim form and return with receipts and ticket stubs to Project Officer • Please ensure you use the cheapest form of transport when possible!!