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Our Flagship Programmes

Flagship programsCrop conservationCrop adaptationCrop diversity

Flagship Programmes are comprehensive initiatives that are of scientific and strategic importance which

These initiatives demonstrate the degree and extent by which the know-how, expertise and competencies of the various research units comprising the Foundation's scientific network and their partners are mobilized and put into use in order to contribute in addressing major challenges of our time. 

Pl@ntNet : Computational plant identification & collaborative information system

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Pl@ntNet is a web-oriented scientific, informative and educational network and software platform dedicated to the collaborative gathering, sharing and use of large, multi-disciplinary datasets on tropical and Mediterranean plants.

This Flagship Programme (FP) is envisioned to be implemented over a period of four years and will include, among others, new easy-access tools dedicated to automated plant identification, to the establishment of potential distribution maps of useful or key plant species and plant communities, and to the search and exploitation of internal as well as external knowledge banks on plant uses and production.

ARCAD : Agropolis Resource Center for Crop Conservation, Adaptation and Diversity

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The Languedoc Rousillon Region has pledged to support the programme to the tune of five (5) million euros.

Agropolis Fondation is providing three (3) million euros to its second Flagship Programme (FP) called ARCAD, short for Agropolis Resource Center for Crop Conservation, Adaptation and Diversity.

Aimed at setting up a new open multi-function (conservation, research and training) platform devoted to the assessment and better use of plant agro biodiversity in Mediterranean and tropical regions, ARCAD will focus on the relationship between crop diversity and the processes of domestication and adaptation to the agricultural environment.

Website: www.arcad-project.org