Nejc Rački and Meti Buh Gašparič, young researchers in the program group, were among many candidates of region Alpe-Adria selected in the group of 35 most promising young researchers, who received an invitation to the Regional BioCamp 2012, which was held in Ljubljana from 20-22. May 2012 and was organized by Sandoz Pharmaceuticals d.d. At the end their group of 7 researchers was awarded in the category of the best team.
E.01 National awards
The Department of biotechnology and systems biology, which involves the great majority of the program team, increased a scope of the accreditation ISO/IEC 17025 from detection of GMOs to the detection of plant pathogenic microorganisms by molecular methods. This is the first accreditation for plant pathogens in Slovenia and is an evidence of a successful and qualitative work of the program members in this field.
D.05 Laboratory accreditation
Members of the program hosted an expert meeting of COST Action FA0806 (Plant virus control employing RNA-based vaccines: A novel non-transgenic strategy) in Ljubljana from 3. to 5. September, 2012. A very successful meeting was attended by 43 participants from 20 different countries.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
In the framework of the project FARMA (Fostering Agricultural Markets Activity), which is leaded in Bosnia and Herzegovina by an international development consulting firm,Chemonics International, in collaboration with United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) a training workshop was organized by the members of the program from 11.5.-15.6. 2012. Trainees were learned how to identify the bacterial ring and brown rot of potatoes. Within the project in the last four years we have conducted several trainings accompanied with tests of abilities for officials from Bosnia and Herzegovina and thus contribute to the start of regular inspections of seed and table potato production in that country.
F.03 Increased qualifications of the research and development staff
COBISS.SI-ID: 30070745A member of the program team co-authored a high school text book Kjer se živnje začne, which was awarded by Bronze award on the competition for the best European text book 2013. The competition is annually organized by EEPG (The European Educational Publishers Group), Frankfurt book fair and IARTEM (International Association for Research on Textbooks and Educational Media).
E.02 International awards
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