🌱EPSO congratulates Young Plant Scientist Award winners Stijn Daems (fundamental research) and Yuhang Meng (applied research)! They will present their research at the EPSO Science Day during the General Assembly in Dundee on 17.06.2026. #PlantScience
Report and recommendations from the Plant Factories Science Meeting ‘Advances in Plant Factory Systems’ of the EPSO Plant Factories WG bit.ly/4rkXFzu.
#PlantScience #Bioeconomy #Biotechnology #EUCompetitiveness #HorizonEU
🌱📢51st EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 19th March 2026 at 3 PM discussing ‘Forest Health in the face of climate, pests and pathogens’ with Elina Oksanen and Annika Perry. EPSO members suggest themes and speakers for seminars bit.ly/4u3eEIW. #PlantScience #SDG #EUAgriVision #EUForestry
🌱Contributions from plant #research and #innovation to Future-Proofing EU Agri-Food - EPSO submission and position paper to the European Commission’s consultation on the AGRI R&I Strategy. 👉https://bit.ly/4bzrQi2
#PlantScience #EUAgriVision #FoodforEurope #HorizonEU #EUAgriFoodDays
EPSO submission including position paper to the European Commission’s consultation on the European Research Area (ERA) Act. #PlantScience #HorizonEU #ERA #research #innovation 👉https://bit.ly/4c76LvA
50thEPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 19 February 2026 at 15.00 CET discussing Communicating Plant Science – Examples from Fascination of Plants Day with Valeria Bianciotto, Maruša Pompe-Novak and Trine Hvoslef-Eide. bit.ly/4bCatNL #PlantScience #PlantsDay2026
49 EPSO seminar for EU Plant Scientists: 22/01 at 3 PM CET discussing Microproteins – Small Proteins with Strong Impact on Growth and Adaptation with Stephan Wenkel, Naveen Shankar, Ylenia Vittozzi and Anne Van Humbeeck. bit.ly/450gjo1
#PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU #ERC
49 EPSO seminar for EU Plant Scientists: 22/01 at 3 PM CET discussing Microproteins – Small Proteins with Strong Impact on Growth and Adaptation with Stephan Wenkel, Naveen Shankar, Ylenia Vittozzi and Anne Van Humbeeck. bit.ly/450gjo1
#PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU #ERC
Join the International “Fascination of Plants Day” around May 18, 2026 – a global celebration of plants!
buff.ly/5oRINHp via @epsoeurope.bsky.social #FoPD #PlantScience
Fall color on a strawberry plant against a jet black background.
Strawberry Fields forever
Fall color on strawberry plant.
#macromonday #minimalmonday #minimalism #strawberry #gardening #digitalart #autuumn
Tim was elected President of EPSO (European Plant Science Organisation). Join us to help the plant science voice be heard in Europe. 🌾🌿
epsoweb.org
@epsoeurope.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk @intbarleyhub.bsky.social
🌱 📢 8th Fascination of Plants Day 2026 is officially launched! Join us by organising interactive events engaging the public around the 18 May 2026 or as a participant.
More info: www.plantday18may.org 👉 bit.ly/4oVTuZw
#PlantsDay2026 #Plants #PlantScience
The FoPD 202 PR Toolbox is updated! 🌿
New flyer + customisable promo materials now available to help you promote your events.
Download on the FoPD website and get ready for #PlantDay2026! 🌱👉https://bit.ly/4pthuo1
🌱The new FoPD 2026 flyer inviting to organise activities is now live in PR Toolbox on FoPD website! It features the list of participating countries and their National Coordinators.
If a country is not listed but wants to join, contact plantday@epsomail.org 👉 bit.ly/4pATPCc
48th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 18 December 2025 at 15.00 CET discussing
Roots for future crops: Horizon Europe Projects on Roots with Kati Retzer, Christopher Barnes, Charlotte White and Rafaella Balestrini. bit.ly/4pHuNkl. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU
🌱📢EPSO wishes to encourage the development of ideas and imaginative thinking in #PlantScience and offers two awards to young scientists to present at the EPSO General Assembly Science Day on 17th June 2026. Submission deadline is 31.1.2026. 👉https://bit.ly/43cbx5Q.
💡 EPSO welcomes the provisional agreement reached by the Trilogue on the legislative proposal for regulation of New Genomic Techniques (NGTs) in plants. EPSO offers to contribute on a scientific basis. 🌱
#PlantScience #Biodiversity #Food2030EU #Bioeconomy #LifeSciences 👉 bit.ly/48Mds37
48th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 18 December 2025 at 15.00 CET discussing
Roots for future crops: Horizon Europe Projects on Roots with Kati Retzer, Christopher Barnes, Charlotte White and Rafaella Balestrini. bit.ly/4pHuNkl. #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU
📢Shared vision, unified voice: ISE joins universities and research institutes in Europe proposing joint Framework Programme 10 #FP10 amendments.👉 bit.ly/4ivmc1W
& ISE Statement to the EC’s proposal on MFF including FP10, 29.10.2025
Great news! 🌱 The Global Plant Council has featured Fascination of Plants Day 2026 in its November newsletter 👉 bit.ly/4ity2cT. and more in the announcement 👉 bit.ly/4pg8jHp.
Get involved! Contact your National Coordinator via the “Countries” section on www.plantday18may.org 🌿
Join the International “Fascination of Plants Day” around May 18, 2026 – a global celebration of plants!
buff.ly/5oRINHp via @epsoeurope.bsky.social #FoPD #PlantScience
📢 EPSO Newsletter #62 is out!
Read the public short version now, and EPSO members can log in for the full edition.
🗓️ Next issue: Spring 2026
Got news? Send your articles by end of March!
Happy reading! 📚👉 bit.ly/4ijoIZ8
🌱📢 Switzerland is back in Horizon Europe!
With the EU Programmes Agreement signed on 10 Nov 2025, Swiss researchers and innovators can once again apply as full Beneficiaries in all Horizon Europe calls—retroactively from 1 Jan 2025.
A big boost for science, innovation & collaboration!
EPSO 6th Workshop on Plants and Microbiomes, Malaga 3.11.2025 – success and outcome. bit.ly/43jUtLg
#PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU #biodiversity #EUFarm2Fork
🌱47th EPSO seminar for European Plant Scientists: 20/11/2025 at 3 pm discussing Understanding the impact of plant insect interactions. EPSO members register, suggest themes, senior and junior speakers for spring seminars 👉 bit.ly/47yqvnV . #PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU
🌱📢EPSO wishes to encourage the development of ideas and imaginative thinking in #PlantScience and offers two awards to young scientists to present at the EPSO General Assembly Science Day on 17th June 2026. Submission deadline is 31.1.2026. 👉https://bit.ly/43cbx5Q.
🌱ISE supports the decision that most of Framework Programme 10 will not be absorbed in the European Competitiveness Fund – ISE calls for the entire FP10 including the four policy windows to remain outside the ECF, while maintaining links to it. bit.ly/4qAvopm #MFF #FP10
Induced resistance in plants: from mechanisms to applications in crop protection - 3rd Workshop of the Plant Health WG, held online, 21 October 2025 – outcome bit.ly/47jMbE9
#PlantScience #PlantHealth #SDG #HorizonEU
EU project InnCoCells identifies new plant-based anti-inflammatory and anti-ageing ingredients for sustainable cosmetics, 16.10.2025 bit.ly/48u2vEI
#PlantScience #SDG #HorizonEU #EULifeSciences #Bioeconomy #Cosmetics #ingredients
EPSO published its briefing on HE ERC WP 2026 and Draft Work Programmes pillars II (Cluster 6 ‘Food, bioeconomy, natural resources, agriculture & environment’). and III on the Members’ only Website. We encourage our members to apply, especially to #ERC. bit.ly/3IFD8W6
#PlantScience #HorizonEU
