Common Working Group Activities

Accessing ECPGR funds

Working Groups can access ECPGR funds to:

  1. Organize Working Group meetings
  2. Carry out Activities funded through the Grant Scheme Calls

Working Group meetings

Working Groups may submit a request to the Executive Committee to organize a Working Group Meeting at any time of the year, independently of the Grant Scheme Calls.

Requests should be sent to the ECPGR Secretariat using this template. The Executive Committee will evaluate each request, and approval will depend on its merit and the availability of funds.

Grant Scheme Activities

The ECPGR Grant Scheme provides funding for Activities proposed by Working Groups and approved by the Steering Committee or the Executive Committee. To support these Activities, the Secretariat regularly opens calls for proposals, normally once a year in autumn, with 3–4 months allowed for preparing a proposal.

For more information, visit the FAQ page on Grant Scheme Activities or the page with open calls.

ECPGR Working Group members roles and responsibilities

The same information is available also as a PDF file

Common Working Group activities and related events

March 2026
The meeting of the Working Group (WG) Chairs with the Executive Committee was held from 3–4 March in Aranjuez, Spain, in preparation for the 18th ECPGR Steering Committee meeting [more info]

November 2023
A meeting with Working Group Chairs was held online on 10 November 2023 to explain and discuss the Steering Committee's and Executive Committee's main decisions affecting Working Group operations in ECPGR's Phase XI. The presentation by the ECPGR Secretary is available [here (1,7 MB)] and the meeting recording [here].

March 2023
The meeting of the Working Group Chairs and the Executive Committee was held online on 8-9 March 2023 and was planned in preparation for the End-of-Phase ECPGR Steering Committee meeting of May/June 2023 [more info]

April 2022
The "Meeting of the Working Group Chairs and the Executive Committee" was held online on 5-6 April 2022. [more info]

February 2021 
Within the framework of the GenRes Bridge project the ECPGR organized a workshop on “Phytosanitary barriers for genetic resources”. The Report of the workshop is available [here] 

August 2018
The Report of the "ECPGR Networking" meeting is available [here]

October 2017
The "ECPGR Networking" meeting took place 17-18 October 2017 at the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia (AIS) in Ljubljana, Slovenia [more info]

December 2016
The project on "Networking among Working Groups for discussing and coordinating the implementation of ECPGR objectives", submitted by the ECPGR Working Groups for funding under the Fourth Call of the ECPGR Activity Grant Scheme, was selected by the Executive Committee. A meeting will take place in October 2017 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. [more info].

Activity Grant Scheme

Fourth Call (2016)

Related Information

ECPGR Working Groups