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Save the date: The next Europatat Congress will take place in Gdańsk (Poland) on 5-7 June 2023
The Polish Potato Federation and Europatat are excited to announce that the next Europatat Congress will take place in the beautiful city of Gdańsk (Poland) from 5 to 7 June 2023. The annual Europatat event has become a key platform to assess the state of play of the...
Joint letter on the potential impact of EU’s proposal on Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation
17 agri-food stakeholders (including Europatat) have co-signed a joint open letter stressing the potential impact of the current proposal on Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation (“SUR”) on the EU agricultural value chain, considering the current...
Joint letter on New Genomic Techniques
Europatat, together with other 26 agri-food value chain partners, has sent a letter to the Commission welcoming the plans for an Initiative on New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) and supporting the proposal for an enabling regulatory framework. Given that discussions on the...
ADAPT news: Austrian potato variety trials successfully accomplished
The Horizon 2020 EU project Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato (ADAPT), in which Europatat is participating, aims at developing new strategies to make potatoes fit for the challenging growth conditions of the future. Similarly, variety testing...
Europatat is back at PotatoEurope
On 7 and 8 September, Europatat travelled to Germany to attend PotatoEurope Germany 2022 at the Rittergut Bockerode in Springe-Mittelrode (near Hanover). After a forced break due to Covid-19, the event was once again a successful meeting place for potato professionals...
Europatat moves to a new office!
On 1st of August, Europatat relocated its offices to a new building that will answer better to the needs of the association following the adoption of a new Strategy for the period 2022-2025. The new office is located on the third floor of Rue des Deux Eglises 26 in...
ADAPT news: Project consortium meeting in Wageningen, June 2022
On 23-25 June, the ADAPT consortium held a Network Meeting of all project partners in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The meeting lasted for three days. During the first two days, all project partners made presentations on the progress made under each work package. Every...
New Europatat Strategy 2022-2025
On 30 May 2022, the Europatat membership gathered in Dublin approved a new vision and mission for Europatat, as well as the key fields of action and priorities for the next three years (2022-2025) to achieve progress in all of the major objectives of the Association....
Legacy of former Europatat’s President Gilles Fontaine
June has marked the end of Europatat’s Presidency for Mr Gilles Fontaine, who joined Europatat’s Board in 2014 as Treasurer and became President in 2018. Through these years, he has played an outstanding role in shaping Europatat for what it is today. The entire...
ADAPT news: Impact of stresses on tuberization signalling and early tuber development
The Horizon 2020 EU project Accelerated Development of multiple-stress tolerAnt PoTato (ADAPT), in which Europatat is participating, aims to elucidate potato tolerance to single and combined abiotic stresses, and to develop new strategies for potato improvement. This...