On 23rd January 2025, the Horizon Europe BELIS Project (Breeding European Legumes for Increased Sustainability) will be organising a Webinar on “BELIS Network. Legume breeding for agroecological transition in Europe”. We welcome you to register at the following button:
Webinar objectives
This webinar will address key challenges related to legume breeding in Europe, drawing on the scientific publication Legume Breeding for the Agroecological Transition of Global Agri-Food Systems: A European Perspective by Diego Rubiales et al., 2021.
It will also introduce the European project BELIS – Breeding European Legumes for Increased Sustainability, focusing on 14 legume species, including 7 forage legumes (red clover, white clover, annual clover, alfalfa, sainfoin, bird’s-foot trefoil, and vetches) and 7 grain legumes (pea, faba bean, soybean, white lupin, lentil, chickpea, and common bean).
The main objectives of BELIS are:
- Developing cost-effective breeding tools.
- Improving the economic and regulatory environment for legume breeding.
- Ensuring effective innovation transfer through a network of stakeholders, including breeders and seed industry, researchers, registration offices, extension services, feed and food industry, farmers.
The webinar will also provide an in-depth presentation of the stakeholder network being established within the BELIS project, highlighting its goals, activities, benefits of joining, and the steps to become a member. On this topic, the webinar will offer an interactive space to gather feedback and answer participants’ questions.
Target Audience
This webinar is specifically designed for professionals involved in forage and grain legume breeding and utilization in Europe, including breeders and seed industry, researchers, registration offices, extension services, feed and food industry, farmers.
