Davis, California, USA
August 13, 2009
 Building
on the success of the Plant Breeding Academy in the United
States, the UC Davis
Seed Biotechnology Center
is partnering with European companies, institutions and
associations to offer the European Plant Breeding Academy.
Scheduled to start in March 2010, the European Plant Breeding
Academy is designed specifically to address the increased global
demand for trained plant breeders. This premier training program
targets working professionals who desire to become fully trained
plant breeders. Participation is typically sponsored by their
employer. Participants will meet for six sessions of six days
each over two years. This schedule will allow participants to
maintain their current employment while enrolled in the course.
All instruction will be in English.
The instructors, selected from around Europe and the United
States, are nationally and internationally recognized experts in
plant breeding and seed technology. Idy Van Leeuwen, the owner
of the Dutch education company Breedwise, has been selected as
one of the lead instructors. She is a highly respected plant
breeding and seed technology instructor who works with private
companies and institutions in The Netherlands and elsewhere in
Europe. Ms. Van Leeuwen will be joined on the education team by
the director of the Plant Breeding Academy as well as expert
faculty from Europe and the United States.
The European sessions will be held in Enkhuizen, The
Netherlands; Angers, France; Barcelona, Spain and Gatersleben,
Germany. The first and last sessions will be held in Davis,
California.
Cooperating partners include:
- the European Seed
Association in Belgium;
- Vegepolys in France;
- Seed Valley and
Naktuinbouw in The Netherlands;
- the Center for Research in
Agricultural Genomics in Spain;
- the Spanish Plant Breeders
Association in Spain,
- the Leibniz Institute of
Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research in Germany; and
- the German Plant Breeders
Association in Germany.
The following are the dates
and locations of each of the six sessions.
Week 1: March 8
– 13, 2010
Location: Davis, California
Week 2: June 21 – 26, 2010
Location: Angers, France
Week 3: October 18 – 23, 2010
Location: Enkhuizen, The Netherlands
Week 4: February 21 – 26, 2011
Location: Barcelona, Spain
Week 5: June 20 – 25, 2011
Location: Gatersleben, Germany
Week 6: September 26 – October 1, 2011
Location: Davis, California
For more information please:
- see the Plant
Breeding Academy website at
http://pba.ucdavis.edu
- or contact Joy Patterson at
jpatterson@ucdavis.edu or PH (530)752-4414.
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