From 21 February to 1 March, AgroParisTech and its partner INRAE will showcase the use of camelina and several activities from the UNTWIST project at the Salon International de l’Agriculture in Paris. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore camelina as an intermediate summer crop, learn about ongoing breeding programs aimed at improving its adaptation to…
The UNTWIST Final Event, “Addressing the Crop Climate Change Challenge”, held on 15 January, featured research on crop responses to variable and extreme climates, followed by an expert roundtable on “The Future of Minor Crops in the Context of Climate Change”. Around 100 participants attended on site in Vienna or online. The first part highlighted…
Save the date for 15 January 2026 as the UNTWIST Final Event arrives in Vienna, with the added flexibility of joining online. This hybrid event will bring together researchers, farmers, industry experts, and policy makers to explore innovative solutions for agriculture in the face of climate change. Rising temperatures, increasing droughts, and unpredictable weather patterns…
The AIT Austrian Institute of Technology team proudly presented the UNTWIST project at this year’s Research Festival Lower Austria, captivating audiences with an interactive hands-on station that brought plant science to life. The magnificent Palais Niederösterreich was buzzing with energy as more than 1,500 visitors explored the frontiers of science and innovation across over 80…
On May 9th, the UNTWIST project took part in a joint field event with the CARINA project at the experimental farm of the University of Bologna in Cadriano (BO), Italy. The event brought together approximately 30 participants, including farmers, seed company representatives, technical advisors, and researchers, fostering a dynamic environment for knowledge sharing and field-based…
The UNTWIST consortium recently gathered at Rothamsted Research (UK) for a two-day project meeting, bringing together all partners to review progress, strengthen collaboration, and align priorities for the final phase of this ambitious initiative. The meeting marked an important milestone as the project enters its final stretch. Partners shared updates on technical achievements, discussed next…
UNTWIST partners attended the 2024 International Camelina Conference in Lincoln (Nebraska)! On 19th-20th July 2024, Claudia Jonak AIT and Bjorn Usadel FZJ presented project results, Richard Haslam Rothamsted Research and Federica Zanetti and Sara Berzuini from UNIBO were the event co-chairs. Closing talks on metabolism and lipids at #Camelina2024 from Jim Anderson (USDA), Claudia Jonak…
In June, the UNWTIST UK team presented the benefits of Camelina sativa at the Cereals Event 2024, a two-day field event for farmers and breeders. Over 17,500 visitors attended the event, where the crop plot exhibitors curated and displayed over 600 individual crop plots demonstrating a wide spread of popular and emerging plants. About 2,000 visitors…
An Open Day in Spain that brings the opportunity to explore synergies among other EU projects. On the 11th of April, our partner Camelina Company Spain held an open day at their innovation center in Daimiel, Ciudad Real, Spain, (CID). Around twenty people were present, half of them were farmers, also people from the cooperative Los Pozos…
This time we met in Jülich, our German partner hosted us for the project meeting. UNTWISTers “19 persons representing 8 entities from 6 EU countries” The UNTWIST team has spent three days of work where debate and agreements have been present during all the exchange sessions. The first day, untwisters got a working session…
In October, the International Scientific Conference entitled “Crops for the future – breeding for resilience 2023”, was co-organised by ADAPT and UNTWIST in Ljubljana/Slovenia. Current developments in the breeding of stress-resistant crops were presented and discussed at the conference. Various topics were covered, from stress physiology and signaling, phenotyping and molecular adaptation mechanisms to modelling…
The UNTWIST project was present at the Lipidomystes days organized at Sorbonne University in Paris. This event was organized by the lipidomystes network which gather all the French expert in lipid analysis. Malo Le Boulch was invited to introduce the reconstruction of metabolic networks and a selection of tools for this purpose. Furthermore, a focus…
Tuesday, the 4th of July at 2:00 p.m., INRAE, Versailles This day provides an opportunity to present the European UNTWIST project, which aims to understand camelina’s tolerance mechanisms to water and heat stress while adapting it to different cropping modalities. It also provides an opportunity to visit trial plots and discuss the potential and challenges…
In the framework of Networking activities with other projects, UNTWIST has linked up with CARINA which it plans to carry out collaborative actions in the coming months, in particular the organization of meetings between both projects for results presentation and analysis of present and future collaboration. Both projects have established an interaction plan which includes…
All UNTWIST partners met in Bologna for the technical follow-up meeting and the field visit last May. During the first-day consortium meeting, the activities carried out by each of the partners were presented and the incipient results of the work carried out in each work package were shared. The action plan for the coming…
The second edition of the Cultiva conference last month in Sádaba brought together more than a thousand people linked to the agricultural sector, including producers, organizations, and companies. The event, organized this year by Cooperativa San José de Sádaba, Red ARAX, Cooperativas Agroalimentarias de Aragón, and the Centro de Transferencia Agroalimentaria del Gobierno de…
On the 1st of March 2023, a modelling workshop was held, jointly organised by the UNTWIST and the ADAPT projects and was a great opportunity to discuss the modelling approaches of the two projects that are funded under the topic “Looking behind plant adaptation (SFS-30-2019)”. Ideas and approaches were exchanged promoting knowledge and experience sharing…
The UNTWIST project took part in the London Science Museum Family Event Future Explorers in February 2022 aimed at children aged 7+. The aim of the event was to raise awareness to climate change and sustainability while exploring the cutting-edge STEM research currently taking place to help mitigate further changes and how will life…
In the frame of UNTWIST project, we specifically dedicated efforts to joint networking activities with different projects financed to establish a fruitful collaboration and share expertise and knowledge on plant adaptation. UNTWIST would like to invite coordinators of other related projects to join the UNTWIST COMMUNITY as supporting experts. Your project will be portrayed…
The UNTWIST project organised together with the ADAPT project a joint workshop on best practice of data sampling and management. Both EU projects, funded under the topic SFS-30-2019: Agri-Aqua Labs: Looking behind plant adaptation, are working with a collection of > 50 genotypes grown under different environmental conditions. The projects will thus generate large volumes…
UNTWIST project organized by video conference the 20th October 2020 a sample workshop coordinated by INRAe/AgroParisTech Versailles to discuss and provide consensus methods for camelina samples to be handled during the project. The sample workshop defined and agreed a uniform seed cleaning method for camelina comprising four steps. Several parameters for plant growth conditions in…
The Austrian Research Promotion Agency FFG showcases UNTWIST as a best practice Horizon 2020 project in their #SuccessStory series (https://www.ffg.at/news/success-story-untwist-vom-leindotter-fuer-die-klimaresistenz-lernen) and highlighted UNTWIST during the Horizon Europe kick-off event “Research and development for a healthy planet” on 16th February 2021. In their commentary, the FFG emphasizes the integrative multi-disciplinary approach of UNTWIST bringing together eight…
The 1st f2f interaction in @UNTWIST_H2020 held in Tulln, Austria. Claudia Jonak from @AT_Bioresources and @FPileidis of @RTDS_Group discussed the progress and management of @UNTWIST_H2020, respecting the hygiene measures due to the current status of Covid-19 in Austria.
