Europe

The MSBP co-ordinates the EU-funded European Native Seed Conservation Network (ENSCONET) which currently has 24 members. Bilateral collaboration agreements exist for these three ENSCONET members:

Institute of Botany of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, BULGARIA
Budapest Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Budapest, HUNGARY
Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, SLOVAKIA

and in addition, there is a bilateral collaboration agreement with the Centro Conservazione Biodiversità (CCB), Dipartimento di Scienze Botaniche, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Sardinia, ITALY

The MSBP is also part of the management team for the UK’s contribution to EU-funded COST Action 871 on the cryo-preservation of crop species in Europe, and is part of the British Council Alliance agreement for Anglo-French-German research into seed quality. It has other collaborative research contacts including with the following institutes:

Karl-Franzens-Universität, Graz, AUSTRIA
Gembloux University, BELGIUM
IRD Montpellier, FRANCE

Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle FRANCE
Université d'Angers, FRANCE
University of Freiburg, GERMANY

Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (MAICh), GREECE
National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, GREECE
Università di Cagliari, ITALY
Università di Pavia, ITALY
Università di Torino, ITALY
Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies, ITALY,
University of Bergen, NORWAY

The Natural History Museums and Botanical Garden, University of Oslo, NORWAY
Wageningen Agricultural University, THE NETHERLANDS
Institute of Dendrology, Poznan, POLAND
University of Warsaw, POLAND
Universidad Castellon de la Plana, SPAIN