EPGRIS Workpackage B4 Promotion of database EURISCO Brigitte Lalibert IPGRI Regional Office for Euro

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EPGRIS Workpackage B4Promotion of
databaseEURISCOBrigitte LalibertéIPGRI
Regional Office for Europe
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Promotion of EURISCO - Outline

• Promotion of EPGRIS and EURISCO as a model of
  regional strategy to documentation workshop in
  Africa planned for October 2002
• EURISCO web site itself
• Promotion through PA materials
• Budget available for this and from coordination
• Cost estimates of PA products
• Long-term strategy

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User groups

• The National PGR Coordinators responsible for
  creating the national inventory
• The PGR conservation community day to day
  conservation of plant collections
• The PGR user community commercial plant
  breeders, crop scientists, other potential users
  (NGOs, educational institutes etc)

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WP-B4 Promotion of DB

• From month 33-36, IPGRI responsible with all
  partners involved
• Methodology
• All available means used to inform the user
  community (genebank community, plant breeders,
  scientific community), about the existence of
  EURISCO. Articles will appear in IPGRI
  Newsletter for Europe, and other published
  journals posting on relevant newsgroups.
• Deliverable - D14
• PA materials about EURISCO (press releases and
  pamphlets).
• Milestone
• User community informed

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Promotion - EPGRIS model

• ECP/GR Inter-regional Cooperation Network
  workshop on regional approaches to documentation
  in Africa, October 2002
• SINGER adapted to EURISCO
• Other regional networks?
• Global information systems

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Promotion - PA materials

• Posters
• Websites www.ecpgr.cgiar.org/epgris/
• Brochures
• Photo CDs
• Articles in IPGRIs regional newsletters
• Articles in technical journals