EPSO WORKSHOPS

General outlines

Plant Productivity, Ghent (BE), Sept 2009

Plant Phenotyping, Jülich (DE), Nov 2009

Biofuels, London (UK), May 2008

Previous EPSO workshops

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EPSO workshops - General outlines
 

Scope	Bring disciplines (and possibly technologies) together Bottom-up Multi-disciplinary (distant areas in plant science; plant science and other science disciplines) -> crossing borders between disciplines; bring scientists together who normally would not work together; sharing of know-how and resources; identify future joint R&D activities.
Submission of proposals	Scientists are invited to submit an outline for a workshop they would like to organise. Click here to submit a proposal. Deadline for submitting a workshop for 2011 is 1 December 2010. The EPSO board makes the final selection.
Organizers	Each workshop can have 1-3 organiser(s)
Speakers	Participants/speakers by invitation only, all expenses covered The organisers submit a list of invited speakers who would be prepared to give talks if the workshop would be approved. The organisers should bring visionary scientists together from only partly overlapping disciplines where collaborations would provide new frontiers in science and stimulate new interactions on the subjects discussed.
Participants	Max 40 participants (incl. organisers, speakers), all by invitation only
Duration	2 days
Public information & Outcome	Organiser to write a white paper for EPSO Abstract book, can be put online if wanted Participants complete a questionnaire at the end of the workshop
Financing	Experience shows that workshop costs typically amount to about 20 000EUR. The maximum support provided by EPSO is 5 000EUR, therefore EPSO encourages workshop organisers to find financial support for the workshop. Should they not have other support, EPSO ask workshop organisers to submit a proposal to ESF Exploratory Workshops to finance most of the workshop costs. For more information on the submission procedure, click here.
Number of workshops per year	In a first phase we will have two workshops in the year when there is no EPSO conference and only one in the year when there is an EPSO conference. At a later stage more workshops per year might be organized.
Venue	EPSO would appreciate opportunities to a fixed location to hold its workshops.