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We have 37 upcoming events published on our event page.  Among them:

INTERDROUGHT VI (IDVI)
09–12 March 2020. Mexico City, Mexico. 

International Symposium on Climate-Resilient Agri-Environmental Systems (IS-CRAES)
19–22 May 2020. Dublin, Ireland.

45th New Phytologist Symposium: Ecological and evolutionary consequences of plant–fungal invasions
20 – 23 June 2020. Campinas Campinas, Brazil.

8th International Crop Science Congress (ICSC)
21–25 June 2020. Saskatoon, Canada.  

Plant Biology Europe 2020
29 June 2020–02 July 2020. Torino, Italy. 

GPC science communication workshop at PBE2020
30 June 2020. Torino, Italy. 

THE 31st INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARABIDOPSIS RESEARCH (ICAR)
06–10 July 2020. Seatle, WA, USA. 

Plant Biology 2020
25–28 July 2020. Washington, DC, USA. 

XXXIII REUNIÓN ARGENTINA DE FISIOLOGÍA VEGETAL
04–07 October 2020. Santa Fe, Argentina.

Funding Opportunities/

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- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – Individual Fellowships are available for applicants with a doctoral degree or at least four years´ full time research experience. There are both European and Global Fellowships and last 1-3 years. The call will open soon. Our advise: start preparing your proposals. 

- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – Research and Innovation Staff Exchange (RISE)  call for proposals is now open. Organisations such as universities, research centres and companies that want to offer a short-term exchange to their staff can now apply. Deadline: Tuesday, April 28, 2020

- The Plant Biotic Interactions (PBI) program supports research on the processes that mediate beneficial and antagonistic interactions between plants and their viral, bacterial, oomycete, fungal, plant, and invertebrate symbionts, pathogens and pests. This joint NSF/NIFA program supports projects focused on current and emerging model and non-model systems, and agriculturally relevant plants. Full Proposals Accepted Anytime.

ECRi / The GPC Early Career Researcher (ECR) Insternational Network

ECRi is a collection of activities addressed to help the ECRs with 4 essential matters: job hunting, grant funding, dissemination of research results and networking. Ongoing activities are:

Do you want to learn more about ECRi? Please get in touch by emailing us.

ECRi ongoing activities ⬇️⬇️

- Join our Facebook and Linkedin groups for daily job opportunities.

- Our next #plantscijobs Twitterstorm will take place on the 28th February between 3 and 4 pm CEST.

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Other blog posts ⬇️⬇️

Australian fires. Not the new normal by Ros Gleadow, President of Global Plant Council

Climate change: three ways to market the science to reach the sceptics by Robin McKenna

State of the art research meets breeding for wheat’s future by  Matthew Reynolds (CIMMYT)

The United Nations  declared 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (#IYPH2020). IYPH2020 is a once in a lifetime opportunity to raise global awareness on how protecting plant health can help end hunger, reduce poverty, protect the environment, and boost economic development. 

At GPC we have a devoted IYPH2020 section where you will find news connected with plant health from now on.

Are you organizing an IYPH2020 activity? Please tell us about it by emailing isabel@globalplantcouncil.org

Members / 

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Please contact us (isabel@globalplantcouncil.org) to find out how your organization can join the Global Plant Council.