The aim of the project is to create a European Virtual Tree Breeding Centre:

·        to foster co-operation and complementarity among teams,

·        to enhance the excellence level of R&D activities across Europe,

·        to progressively integrate tree improvement research into co-operative programmes activities,

·        to open infrastructures to a larger scientific community in forestry and agriculture (ornamentals, fruit trees) but more broadly in biology including pharmacology, medicine.

Networking activities will include web-site and discussion forums, databases, exchange of expertise and methodology, common protocols, etc.

Luc Pacques (koordinator), INRA, Unité d'Amélioration, Génétique et Physiologie des Arbres Forestiers

Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique

Olivet (France); Federal Research and Training Centre
for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape, Department of Genetics

Vienna (Austria); Centre de Recherche de la Forêt et du Bois, Forestry Biology Direction, Gembloux (Belgium); Instituut voor Bosbouw en Wildbeheer, Geraardsbergen (Belgium); Forestry and Game Management Research Institute, Jiloviste – Strnady, 156 04 Praha 5 – Zbraslav,(Czech Republic); Bundesforschungs-anstalt für Forst- und Holzwirtschaft, Institut für Forstgenetik und Forstpflanzenzüchtung,

Hamburg (Germany); Forest Research Institute of Lower Saxony, Department of Growth and Yield & Department of

Forest Genetic Resources, 37079 Göttingen, (Germany);

Landesforst-präsidium Sachsen, Pirna (Germany);

Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki (Finland);

Forest Research, British Forestry Commission, Roslin (Great Britain)

Consiglio per la Ricerca e Sperimentazione in Agricoltura, CRA – Istituto Sperimentale per la Selvicoltura, Centro Nazionale di Informazione per la Biodiversità Forestale  - Lab. Forest Tree Breeding, Arezzo (Italy); Coillte Teoranta- The Irish Forestry Board

Newtownmuntkennedy (Ireland); Teagasc Agriculture and food development authority, Carlow (Ireland), Lithuanian Forest Research Institute, Kaunas reg. (Lithuania); Alterra, Green World Research

ageningen (The Netherlands); Norwegian Forest Research Institute

Ås (Norway); Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Dendrology

Dept. of Genetics, Kornik (Poland); Instytut Badawczy Leśnictwa  (Forest Research Institute); Dept. of Genetics and Forest Tree Physiology, Warsaw (Poland); Forest Research and Management Institute, Bucuresti (Romania); Stiftelsen Skogsbrukets Forskningsinstitut, Uppsala (Sweden); Forest Research Institute, - Dept. Silviculture & Forestry Technology, Zvolen (Slovakia); Forest Genetics, Forest Research Centre, Madrid (Spain); Xunta de Galicia

Research Center on Forest and Environmental Research  Lourizán, Pontevedra (Spain); Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet, UPSC, Umeå (Sweden); ASSOCIATION FORET CELLULOSE, Nangis (France); Centro de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria de Aragón . Unidad de Recursos Forestales. Zaragoza (Spain), Technical University Zvolen (Slovakia)