GEN4OLIVE is an EU-funded Innovation Action that aims at increasing olive GenRes mobilisation and encouraging pre-breeding activities by:
• Characterising around 700 varieties and 1000 wild and ancient genotypes from the whole Mediterranean basin.
• Developing smart ICTs tools to make GenRes more accessible to end-users.
• Enhancing breeders and growers participation through two open calls for supporting pre-breeding activities.
To accelerate the mobilisation of olive GenRes and to foster pre-breeding
activities around four main topics:
· Climate change resilience.
· Pests and diseases resilience varieties.
· High production and high-quality varieties
· Adaptation to modern planting systems.
· Olive Germplasm Banks
· SMEs: farmers, breeders, nurseries and olive/olive oil producers.
· Agronomic advisers and other experts.
· Biotechnology and ITs services providers.
· Academic community.
· Consumers.
· Policy-makers and responsible authorities.
· Citizenship.