Establishment of a European
information system on forest genetic resources
Management of the project
The project is coordinated by Bioversity International and the implementation of its activities is overseen by the EUFGIS Steering Group. The project coordinator implements the decisions of the Steering Group and is responsible for day-to-day management of the project. He also takes care of the administrative and financial management of the project and coordinates the implementation of technical work packages. Each partner is responsible for providing the agreed contributions to various activities of the different work packages.
Steering Group
Each partner institution has one representative in the Steering Group
| Jarkko Koskela | Bioversity International, Rome, Italy |
| Silvio Schüler | Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Austria |
| Ditte Chrisitna Olrik | State Forest Tree Improvement Station (SNS), Denmark |
| François Lefèvre | Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France |
| Roman Longauer | National Forest Centre (NLC), Slovakia |
| Hojka Kraigher | Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI), Slovenia |
| Jason Hubert | Forest Research, United Kingdom |
Collaboration with EUFORGEN
The project is being implemented in close collaboration with the European Forest Genetic Resources Programme (EUFORGEN). Bioversity International is hosting the EUFORGEN Secretariat and the project coordinator is also the EUFORGEN Coordinator.
The EUFORGEN Steering Committee and Networks have provided many inputs to the project activities. National Coordinators (i.e. members of the Steering Committee) have nominated the national focal points to EUFGIS and contributed to the development of a draft Memorandum of Understanding for sharing and using national FGR data through the information system. The EUFORGEN Networks provided valuable inputs to the development of the pan-European minimum requirements and the data standards for the gene conservation units.
Representatives of the Networks also participated in the work of the EUFGIS expert group, which harmonized the earlier developed requirements for gene conservation units of different groups of tree species (conifers, scattered broadleaves and stand-forming broadleaves) into the pan-European minimum requirements.
In June 2009, the EUFORGEN Steering Committee agreed that the EUFGIS information system will be maintained and further developed as part of EUFORGEN activities during Phase IV of the Programme (2010-2014).