Partner 1.
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI/NWO) -
The Netherlands (ERA-PG Project Coordinator)
http://www.nwo.nl/
http://www.genomics.nl/
Contact persons
Dr. Ir. Christine Bunthof send mail
Coordinator and contactperson ERA-NET Plant Genomics
Programme Manager Plant Genomics (at NGI), ERA-NET Plant Genomics executive coordinator,
ERA-PG Call Coordinator The Netherlands (for call)
ERA-PG coordinator The Netherlands, call coordinator 1st call and 2nd call
Dr. Wilma van Donselaar send mail
Principle coordinator of ERA-PG, chair National Steering Committee (NSC)
Dr. Okker van Batenburg send mail
Coordinator
Ms. Brenda van der Zee send mail
Assistant coordinator
Mr. Paul Beckers send mail
Call secretariat contact person
Dr. Gionata Leone
PRI and Centre for Biosystems Genomics (CBSG)
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Workgroup
Prof. dr. Willem Stiekema send mail
Centre for Biosystems Genomics (CBSG)
http://www.biosystemsgenomics.nl/
Scientific representative
Prof. Dr. Ir. Evert Jacobsen send mail
Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR)
Scientific representative
About the NGI
The Netherlands Genomics Initiative was established at the end of 2001 by five Ministries (Education & Science, Economic Affairs, Agriculture, Health, and Environment) with the objective of providing an optimum combination of the opportunities offered by genomics research and the specific knowledge and expertise available in the field of scientific research in the Netherlands, with the view to setting up a genomics knowledge infrastructure on a par with the world’s leading institutes. The Netherlands Genomics Initiative has been given the assignment, the resources and the mandate to stimulate, facilitate and direct the developments in this area, which implies that it plays a key role in evaluating and rewarding initiatives. It has a budget of € 189 million with which to fund Genomics Centres of Excellence and other genomics projects for a period of five years.
One of the awarded Centres of Excellence is the Centre for Biosystems Genomics (CBSG) in Wageningen (budget € 50 million for five years) aimed at improving the environmental and processing quality of food (products) by plant genomics research. As consortium leader this Centre plays a key role in the proposed ERA-NET for plant genomics.