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News
21 Feb 2012 | Already over 200 institutions from 34 countries signed in for "Fascination of Plants Day"
Already 201 institutions from 34 countries – 26 from Europe and 8 from North- and South America, Asia and Australasia plan events on the Fascination of Plants Day on May 18, 2012. Look up the country pages for more details. Contact us at jkellmann@ice.mpg.de to add your event as well!
20 Feb 2012 | Welcome to Chile, the 34th country joining the "Fascination of Plants Day"
Scientists from Chile join the FoPD: Haroldo Salvo from the Agriaquaculture Nutritional Genomic Center (CGNA) in Chile confirmed to Jan Kellmann: 'we will be happy to be a national coordinator in Chile. Our contact will be Loreto Moya, loreto.moya@cgna.cl'.
17 Feb 2012 | First coordination meeting of "Fascination of Plants Day"–China held in Shanghai
The 1st meeting for the coordination of Fascination of Plants Day (FoPD) in China, hosted by the Chinese Society of Plant Biology (CSPB), was successfully held in Shanghai on February11, 2012. Fourteen delegates from eight institutions, including research institutes, botanical gardens and associations, participated and discussed the issues related to the organization of FoPD in China. The first “Fascination of Plants Day” in China will be launched under the CSPB coordination and co-organized by five botanical gardens that include Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Wuhan Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiang Shan Beijing Botanical Garden and South China Botanical Garden of Chinese Academy of Sciences. During the FoPD, all the gardens will be organized various activities to show how the importance of plants to our society, for example, plant-related seminars, plant exhibition, TV shows, and so on. To encourage teenagers learning more about plants, a prize competition for plant-related articles will be organized in Shanghai by Shanghai Society for Plant Biology. Each botanical garden will also have their detailed programs for FoPD before March 1. It is time for China to take action!
13 Feb 2012 | Already over 180 institutions from 33 countries signed in for "Fascination of Plants Day"
Already 180 institutions from 33 countries – 26 from Europe and 7 from North- and South America, Asia and Australasia plan events on the Fascination of Plants Day on May 18, 2012. Look up the country pages for more details. Contact us at jkellmann@ice.mpg.de to add your event as well!
08 Feb 2012 | Welcome to Brazil, the 33rd country joining the "Fascination of Plants Day"
Brazilien scientists confirmed to join the FoPD: ‘My colleague António Costa de Oliveira, Professor at UF Pelotas, Brazil, will coordinate the FoPD in Brazil’ Nelson Saibo, the Portugese FoPD coordinator, told Karin Metzlaff from EPSO. Already in 2011, Ricardo Enrique Bressan-Smith, Associate Professor at North Fluminense State University and President of the Brazilian Society of Plant Physiology, told Karin he ‘contacted the Botanical Society of Brazil (SBB)’, being connected to ‘most of the botanical gardens, plant nurseries, museums etc in my country’. This follows the invitation of EPSO to all Global Plant Council members to join in the Fascination of Plants Day on 20 December 2011.
07 Feb 2012 | Flyer and poster files for you at "Fascination of Plants Day" toolbox to help you organize and announce your FoPD events
To help you organize and advertise great events on the FoPD, as well as to encourage more events from your city, region, country and way beyond, you can print the online flyer and 13 posters. In addition, you can use the graphic files to exchange the text (with your national language, coordinator and event) in the flyer and poster, and use your favourites among 13 images for the poster.
03 Feb 2012 | More than 6000 visitors
The "Fascination of Plants Day" web site has been visited by more than 6000 unique visitors since its launch on Nov 04
02 Feb 2012 | EMBO Encounters article on Fascination of Plants Day
30.01.2012 | Welcome to Slovenia, the 32nd country joining the “Fascination of Plants Day”
The Slovanian member cluster to EPSO decided to join the FoPD also in Slovenia. Marusa Pompe-Novak, the EPSO representative from Slovenia and Head of the Infrastructural Center National Institute of Biology, Ljubljana, said 'the activity in Slovenia will be run by the Slovenian Society of Plant Biology in collaboration with the Slovenian Botanical Society, Botanical Garden at the University of Ljubljana and the Slovenian publishing house Mladinska knjiga that is publishing the journal Pil.’
27.01.2012 | More than 5000 visitors
The "Fascination of Plants Day" web site has been visited by more than 5000 unique visitors since its launch on Nov 04
23.01.2012 | Plants for the Future sponsors the "Fascination of Plants Day"
The European Technology Platform “Plants for the Future” (Plant ETP) decided to sponsor the Fascination of Plants Day. The decision followed an invitation by Karin Metzlaff (EPSO) and was taken at Plant ETP Executive Committee meeting last Friday, 20 January 2012. Plant ETP is a European Partnership for research, development and innovation, bringing together industries, farming communities and academia in the plant sector www.plantetp.org
19.01.2012 | Indian scientists support the "Fascination of Plants Day"
‘Indian scientists will join the Fascination of Plants Day initiative’ Neera Bhalla Sarin, Dean School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehry University New Delhi - informed Karin Metzlaff and Jan Kellmann. This follows the invitation of EPSO to Indian scientists discussed aside a Europe-India partnership initiative (SAHYOG) kick-off meeting in Brussels on 12-13 January 2012.
16.01.2012 | More than 4000 visitors
The "Fascination of Plants Day" web site has been visited by more than 4000 unique visitors since its launch on Nov 04. The most recent countries that joined the initiative are Lithuania, Turkey, China and Canada and we look forward to welcome more!
13.01.2012 | Welcome to China, the 31st country joining the "Fascination of Plants Day"
Chinese scientists now confirmed to join the FoPD: ‘Peng Zhang, will be our FoPD coordinator and we will organize several activities on "Plant Sciences and Better life" in some big cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Wuhan and Hangzhou.’, Zuhua He, Director of the Chinese Society of Plant Biology (CSPB) told Karin Metzlaff from EPSO. ‘Dr. Zhang, with a team, will coordinate the activities, and our CSPB office will provide all help.’ This follows the first confirmation from CSPB in December last year to support the FoPD.
11.01.2012 | Welcome to Canada, the 30th country joining the "Fascination of Plants Day"
Plant Canada supports the Fascination of Plants Day initiative, President Shahrokh Khanizadeh informed Karin Metzlaff. Shahrokh is the national FoPD coordinator and already invited all Plant Canada Board members to inform their society Boards and members and encourage them to participate – or get involved in organizing this event. This follows the invitation of EPSO to all Global Plant Council members to join in the Fascination of Plants Day on 20 December 2011.
06.01.2012 | Already over 150 institutions from 29 countries signed in for "Fascination of Plants Day"
Already 153 institutions from 29 countries – 26 from Europe and 3 from Asia and Australasia plan events on the Fascination of Plants Day on May 18, 2012. Look up the country pages for more details.
28.12.2011 | 3000 visitors on the "Fascination of Plants Day" web site
Today we welcomed the 3000st visitor at www.plantday12.eu web site. By December 28 the web site was visited more than 3000 times by unique visitors since November 05.
22.12.2011 | Australia prepares YouTube Competition for the "Fascination of Plants Day"
The Australian Center for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) decided to start a national YouTube competition for the Fascination of Plants Day. Monica Ogierman, national coordinator for FoPD in Australia, said ‘ACPFG has committed 3000 Australian Dollar for prices already and more Australian sponsors are welcome. More countries are encouraged to follow this example and start national FoPD YouTube competitions as well.
21.12.2011 | Chinese Society supports the "Fascination of Plants Day"
The Chinese Society of Plant Biology (CSPB) supports the Fascination of Plants Day initiative, Secretary Bing Leng and Executive Director Zuhua He, informed Karin Metzlaff. This follows the invitation of EPSO to all Global Plant Council members to join in the Fascination of Plants Day on 20 December 2011.
15.12.2011 | Welcome to Turkey, the 29th country joining the “Fascination of Plants Day”
Following a meeting of Nihan ERYILMAZ from The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Karin Metzlaff from EPSO, on 16 November 2011 in Brussels, scientists in Turkey decided to join the Fascination of Plants Day with Hikmet Budak from Sabanci University as national FoPD coordinator.
14.12.2011 | Lithuania, the 28th country to join the "Fascination of Plants Day"
Vida Mildažienė, Professor and Director of VMU Kaunas Botanical Garden, will be the national coordinator of Lithuania.
29.11.2011 | 2000 visitors on the "Fascination of Plants Day" web site
Today we welcomed the 2000st visitor at www.plantday12.eu web site. By November 29 the web site was visited more than 2000 times by unique visitors since November 05.
24.11.2011 | CHRONICA HORTICULTURAE. Join..
CHRONICA HORTICULTURAE • VOL 51 • NUMBER 4 • 2011 • page 25
calls to join the "Fascination of Plants Day"
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24.11.2011 | ISHS meets EPSO
Jozef Van Asche, Executive Director of the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS), and Karin Metzlaff, Executive Director of the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO), met at the EPSO office in Brussels on 19 October to get to know the two societies and discuss how to best collaborate.
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24.11.2011 | Heard it through the grapevine
Inga Vesper (Research Europe Today) asked Karin Metzlaff, how she has managed to launch this global initiative just by spreading the word.
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22.11.2011 | Already 41 institutions signed in for UK
Already 41 institutions signed in for UK to plan events on the Fascination of Plants Day on May 18, 2012. Look up the UK country page for more details - and also check the other countries, where the list of participants starts to evolve.
18.11.2011 | Everybody is welcome to join in
Everybody is welcome to join in and organize an event for the "Fascination of Plants Day" 18 May 2012. Contact us to get involved:
Jan-Wolfhard Kellmann jkellmann@ice.mpg.de or Karin Metzlaff Karin.metzlaff@epsomail.org or the respective national coordinator (click on your country).
15.11.2011 | 1000 visitors on the "Fascination of Plants Day" web site
Today we welcomed the 1000st visitor at www.plantday12.eu web site. By November 15 the web site was visited more than 1000 times by unique visitors since November 05.
10.11.2011 | Japan joins the "Fascination of Plants Day"
The Japanese Society of Plant Physiologists (JSPP) is very committed to supporting the Fascination of Plants Day Initiative and will play an active role in coordinating events in Japan and promoting participation throughout their membership. That was decided on the initiative of the JSPP International committee and the Riken Institute – an EPSO member from Japan.
10.11.2011 | The "Fascination of Plants Day" is officially launched to the public worldwide
Sending out press information all over the FoPD participating countries, the media started to report on the planning of this event. Please check the "Press-Review link on this webpage to follow selected articles or broadcasts which have been published so far.
07.11.2011 | Plant breeder society becomes partner in the "Fascination of Plants Day"
The European Association for Plant Breeding Research (EUCARPIA) decides to become partner in the Fascination of Plants Day at its Executive Committee meeting.
04.11.2011 | The "Fascination of Plants Day" website goes public
This webpage provides from now on everybody information on the idea and events that will take place on May 18, 2012, worldwide. You can contact the organisers to get involved, have access to the material and tell everybody else about your own event for the day.
26.10.2011 | Over 25 Countries are on board of the first "Fascination of Plants Day"
The "Fascination of Plants Day" has been already adopted by more than 25 countries worldwide and the number is growing. The initiative, launched by the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO), is supported by a network of national coordinators who volunteer their time to promote and disseminate the activity within their countries. More than 60 scientific institutions, universities, botanical gardens, and museums have already announced that they will open their doors.
19.10.2011 | Horticultural society becomes partner in the "Fascination of Plants Day"
The International Society of Horticultural Science (ISHS) decides to fully support and participate the “Fascination of Plants Day” at a joint meeting of EPSO and ISHS in Brussels.
30.09.2011 | The first "Fascination of Plants Day" got its corporate design
Making the initiative as attractive as possible, the professional designer Stefan Pigur (www.pigurdesign.de) prepared a full set of design files to create the corporate identity - as well as the design of this webpage - for advertising and announcing all activities which finally shall take place on May 18, 2012, worldwide. The organizers are grateful having the professional application developer and web designer Ronald Hirt (www.web-design-4u.de) on board to keep www.plantday12.eu up to date for you!
15.06.2011 | very first, concerted, and international "Plant Day"
The European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO) decides to launch a very first, concerted, and international "Plant Day" appreciating the key role plants have on this plant for any kind of life - including mankind
At their annual General Meeting in Paris the members of EPSO decided concordantly to support and organize the initiative called "Fascination of Plants Day", as a result of an international workshop on outreach activities taking place at the EPSO Congress in Olos, Lapland, in August 2010.
