Some useful web sites and companion projects related to plant breeding

- EPSO the European Plant Science Organisation. EPSO’s mission is to improve the impact and visibility of plant science in Europe. EPSO's top priorities are to facilitate the understanding of plant science, to boost funding for basic research and to coordinate research activities at the national and European levels - and beyond. EPSO is an independent academic organisation that represents more than 226 research institutes, departments and universities from 30 countries in Europe and beyond. Learn more about EPSO.

- Eucarpia (European Association for Research in Plant Breeding) aims to promote scientific and technical co-operation in the field of plant breeding in order to foster its further development. To achieve this purpose, the Association arranges and sponsors meetings to discuss general or specific problems from all fields of plant breeding and genetic research. EUCARPIA is a non-profit organization.

- The European Plant Breeding College (EPBC), a European Erasmus+ project (sept.2015-aug.2017) associating Institut Technique LasalleBeauvais (France), Univ Ghent (Belgium),SLU (Sweden), EGE Univ (Turkey) and Polytechnic Univ Valencia (Spain). (“EPBC aims at creating a knowledge hub in the field of plant breeding by increasing the integration of some of Europe’s leading plant breeding Master programmes.”)

- The West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI) ("training the next generation of plant breeders for Africa") is a partnership between the University of Ghana (UG) and Cornell University, USA that was established in June 2007 with funding from the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) at the University of Ghana to train Plant Breeders in Africa working on the improvement of African crops in local environments for farmers in Africa.

- The MOBREED project “Mobility for Breeders in Africa”: Funded by the European Union, MoBreed aims at harmonizing training programs among its founding partners on plant breeding and educating high profile breeders who can promote the underutilized crops in Africa to tackle food security issues on the continent. Through this mobility programme, students will receive high quality training on the latest technologies of plant breeding. Partner universities and curricula are from Benin, South Africa, Namibia, Ethiopia, Nigeria and France.