Project description DEENESFRITPL A boost for pre-breeding activities in the olive sector Climate change, emerging diseases and genetic erosion threaten olive production worldwide. While olive germplasm banks offer a possible solution, they remain unexploited due to limited development of pre-breeding activities and lack of collaboration and interaction between the germplasm banks and farmers/breeders. The EU-funded GEN4OLIVE project will increase the mobilisation of olive genetic resources and encourage pre-breeding activities by characterising more than 500 varieties and 1 000 wild and ancient genotypes around the topics of climate change, pest and diseases, production and quality and modern planting systems issues. The project will also develop smart ICT tools to make olive genetic resources more accessible to end-users, and enhance breeders’ and growers’ participation through two open calls for supporting pre-breeding activities. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Problems related to biodiversity loss are seriously affecting the olive sector, one of the most important cultivars from the cultural and economic point of view. Emerging diseases and climate change effects daily threaten this sector. The last dry seasons have caused the decrease of olive oil production up to 57%. The genetic erosion risk is present: there are more than 1,200 olive varieties worldwide, but just a 5% represent the total harvested area.Olive GenRes could be the key to solve these problems, but they remain largely unexplored. Big handicaps still hinder their exploitation, such as poor characterisation of olive varieties, scarce development of pre-breeding activities, and lack of collaboration between the Germplasm Banks (GBs) and breeders/farmers. GEN4OLIVE encompasses a wide, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary consortium, which aims to leverage olive GenRes by bringing them to a higher level closer to breeders and markets. The overall goal of GEN4OLIVE is to accelerate the mobilization of olive GenRes and to foster pre-breeding activities by (1) developing a smart and user-friendly interface that will implement Artificial Intelligence utilities to leverage the olive GenRes resources; and (2) enhancing breeders and growers’ participation through the implementation of two open calls for supporting pre-breeding activities and breeding plans.GEN4OLIVE will develop collective pre-breeding activities aiming to in-depth characterize more than 500 worldwide varieties and 1000 wild and ancient genotypes around 5 topics: climate change, pests and diseases, production and quality, and modern planting systems. After integrating all results in the GEN4OLIVE interface, breeders and other end-users will have an effective tool for speeding up all kind of breeding programs. The combination of pre-breeding results with modern ICTs will enable the access of end-users to this valuable information. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligencenatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsnatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Keywords Pre-breeding breeding varieties olive genetic resources germplasm banks wild olives ancient olives genotyping phenotyping progenitors smart interface machine learning AI Programme(s) H2020-EU.3.2. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Food security, sustainable agriculture and forestry, marine, maritime and inland water research, and the bioeconomy Main Programme H2020-EU.3.2.1.1. - Increasing production efficiency and coping with climate change, while ensuring sustainability and resilience Topic(s) SFS-28-2018-2019-2020 - Genetic resources and pre-breeding communities Call for proposal H2020-SFS-2018-2020 See other projects for this call Sub call H2020-SFS-2020-1 Funding Scheme IA - Innovation action Coordinator UNIVERSIDAD DE CORDOBA Net EU contribution € 1 660 772,50 Address Avenida de medina azahara 5 14005 Cordoba Spain See on map Region Sur Andalucía Córdoba Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Participants (15) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all ELLINIKOS GEORGIKOS ORGANISMOS - DIMITRA Greece Net EU contribution € 312 712,50 Address Kourtidou 56-58 11145 Athina See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY Türkiye Net EU contribution € 265 025,00 Address Eskişehir yolu 9. km 06000 Ankara See on map Region Batı Anadolu Ankara Ankara Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 SANTA CRUZ INGENIERIA SL Spain Net EU contribution € 280 070,00 Address Avda.eduardo dato num 45 esc 1 planta b 41018 Sevilla See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Sur Andalucía Sevilla Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 120 030,00 INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE Morocco Net EU contribution € 320 175,00 Address Avenue de la victoire 10000 Rabat See on map Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 FUNDACION CORPORACION TECNOLOGICA DE ANDALUCIA Spain Net EU contribution € 1 159 700,00 Address Calle albert einstein s/n 41092 Sevilla See on map Region Sur Andalucía Sevilla Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 BALAM AGRICULTURE SL Spain Net EU contribution € 176 953,88 Address Autov de andalucia e5 nacional iv km 378 14420 Villafranca de cordoba See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Sur Andalucía Córdoba Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 75 837,37 CAMBRICO BIOTECH SL Spain Net EU contribution € 210 846,13 Address Calle pino central 16 41016 Sevilla See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Sur Andalucía Sevilla Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 90 362,75 ENOSI FYTORIOUXON ELLADOS Greece Net EU contribution € 117 087,50 Address Kissamou 10 sepolia 10443 Athina See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 CONSIGLIO PER LA RICERCA IN AGRICOLTURA E L'ANALISI DELL'ECONOMIA AGRARIA Italy Net EU contribution € 494 123,75 Address Via della navicella 2-4 00184 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 FOCOS GBR - FOODCONSULTINGSERVICES Germany Net EU contribution € 141 015,00 Address Zum kalterhaus 6b 63755 Alzenau See on map SME The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed. Yes Region Bayern Unterfranken Aschaffenburg, Landkreis Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 101 045,73 ANKARA UNIVERSITESI Türkiye Net EU contribution € 216 153,75 Address Dogol caddesi 06100 Tandogan ankara See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA Spain Net EU contribution € 348 450,00 Address Cuesta del hospicio sn 18071 Granada See on map Region Sur Andalucía Granada Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIVERSIDAD DE JAEN Spain Net EU contribution € 223 908,75 Address Campus las lagunillas sn edifico b1 vicerrectorado de investigacion desar tecn e innovacion 23071 Jaen See on map Region Sur Andalucía Jaén Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA Italy Net EU contribution € 917 876,25 Address Piazzale aldo moro 5 00185 Roma See on map Region Centro (IT) Lazio Roma Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS France Net EU contribution € 153 412,50 Address Rue michel ange 3 75794 Paris See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Paris Activity type Research Organisations Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00