INVITE Annual Meeting 2024

INVITE’s last annual meeting – Paving the way for the last phase of the project

The INVITE project held its annual meeting 11-13 June, 2024, at the Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification (CREA-DC) in Florence, Italy. The conference, attended by around 70 participants representing the INVITE consortium partners, marked the last annual meeting before the project’s upcoming final conference planned in Brussels in December.

Over three days, the participants engaged in dynamic discussions and sessions aimed at consolidating the project’s research findings. The focus was mainly on how the INVITE innovations in plant variety testing could be practically implemented to benefit stakeholders. The key topics discussed included advanced phenotyping and genotyping technologies, optimising variety performance networks and harmonising testing protocols across crops and countries.

The meeting also included a collaborative session with InnoVar, INVITE’s sister project, to plan for a common final conference in December. This joint effort aims to present comprehensive findings from both projects and engage a broad spectrum of stakeholders. Leading up to this event, findings from the INVITE project will also be shared and discussed with stakeholders in a number of meetings planned to take place in autumn.

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