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Quick facts and key achievements to date
- Established in 2007 with an initial endowment of €20M from French government and initial founders
- € 8,3 million complementary resources mobilized Charter members are France's major research and higher education institutions
- Launched four waves of Calls for Proposals in 3 years
- €11,3 M combined research funding commitment
- 80 Projects involving more than 200 partners from 55 countries (More than 60% partnersfrom the South and the Mediterranean)
- More than 100 Agropolis Fondation Fellows from about 30 countries (more than 60 % of the Fellows from the South and the Mediterranean)
- Supports two Flagship Projects (€3M each) :
- Pl@ntNet, a collaborative database on Plants (crops, invasive species, weeds ...)
- ArCaD, Agropolis Resource Center for Crop Conservation, Adaptation and Diversity
- Partnership with INRIA on "Computational Plants and Ecosystems"
- Created the Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize for Food and Agriculture
- Sponsor of the 2010 Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development (GCARD)
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