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Steering Committee Zoom meeting Nitra
25 03 2024
Friday, December 8, 2023, from 10.00 a.m. Paris time, CET time
Attendees: Elena Horska, president (Slovak Academy of Agricultural Science), Ioan Jelev, vice-president (Rumanian Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences), Michel Thibier (French Academy of Agriculture), Baiba Rizva (Latvian Academy of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences), Kerstin Niblaeus (Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry), Tomas Garcia Azcarate (National Association of Agricultural Engineering, Spain), Evi Arachoviti (RASE/Royal Agricultural Society of England, Great Britain, Innovation for Agriculture), Simone Orlandini (member of the Scientific-Technical Committee of Academy of Georgofili, Italy). Michel Jacques Duclos (French Academy of Agriculture), Zenonas Dabkevičius (Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry), Nazim Gruda (Academy of Sciences of Albania)
Program:
- Welcome address by President.
- Approval of SC meeting Minutes (September, 22, 2023)
10:05 - Online meeting and discussion with Dr. Carmen Cahill – proposal
for a new coordinator of EWG CAP. She is leading the working group
of the French Academy on European Policies Impacting Food and
Agriculture
10:35 - Update: Gene editing – Dr. Michel Thibier
- Promotion of Best scientific abstract competition 2023 – actual situation
- Information about UEAA activities since last SC UEAA and for next term – Forest strategy
- Newsletters
- Miscellaneous – preliminary proposal for General Assembly 2024 in Romania
- Close of the meeting (12:00)
#1. Welcome address by President of UEAA E. Horská
President Elena Horská welcomed the participants of the SC meeting and asked for approval of the SC Agenda (see above). It was approved.
#2. Approval of SC meeting Minutes (September, 22, 2023)
Minutes from SC meeting September 22, 2023 were approved.
#3. Online meeting and discussion with Dr. Carmen Cahill
– proposal for a new coordinator of EWG CAP. She is leading the working group of the French Academy on European Policies Impacting Food and Agriculture.Dr. Carmen Cahill introduced herself, her rich experiences from position of OECD agricultural director, deputy director of trade, French academy of agriculture. Dr. Carmen Cahill sees a low activity of EWG CAP and it will be necessary to stimulate higher interest and activity.
#4. Gene editing – Dr. Michel Thibier
– update on gene editing. Necessity to search for candidates for EWG in this field. Suggestion to contact Dr. Alain Toppan from the French Academy of Agriculture.
#5. Best scientific abstract competition
Deadline for abstract submission: December, 23, 2023
For the evaluation, it was decided that the abstracts received would be divided into two groups, the abstracts from each group being analysed by three evaluators. For the first group of evaluators, the following were proposed: Michel DUCLOS, Nazim GRUDA and Evi ARACHOVITI (Group A), Michel DUCLOS coordinator and Kerstin NIBLAEUS, Simone ORLANDINI and Baiba RIVZA (Group B), Kerstin NIBLAEUS coordinator. It has been decided that the evaluation procedure will be the one used in the previous Competition from the beginning of 2023. This involves two stages. In the first stage, all papers are evaluated, from which the first 3 or 4 ranked are finally retained, and in Stage II, the selected papers are analyzed and the final ranking is established with the first three winning abstracts. Michel DUCLOS agreed to coordinate both groups of evaluators in the final stage.
Three best abstracts will be awarded with the certificate and presented during SC meeting on March, 22, 2024. Elena Horska will invite them for presentation.
#6.
Information about UEAA activities since last SC UEAA and for next term – update on forest strategy by Kerstin Niblaeus
#7. Newsletters
Next issue: Elena Horská
#8. Miscellaneous
– preliminary proposal for General Assembly 2024 in Romania: Ioan Jelev will prepare the first announcement of the XII UEAA Meeting that will take place in Bucharest, on 10-11 October 2024, in Bucharest.
#9.
Close of the meeting (12:00)