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1 Agrinatura 2018 General Assembly and Workshop April 2018 University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany Hosted by the HOHENHEIM RESEARCH CENTER FOR GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY AND ECOSYSTEMS PRELIMINARY PROGRAM (as of 10 January 2018) DAY 1 Wednesday, 25 April 2018 PART I: General Assembly - For Members Only - Registration and Welcome 08:00 am Registration 09:00 am Welcome Address by the Host Carolin Callenius Executive Manager of the Hohenheim Research Center for Global Food Security and Ecosystems, University of Hohenheim, Germany Uta Dickhöfer Chair of the Hohenheim Research Center for Global Food Security and Ecosystems, University of Hohenheim, Germany

2 09:15 am Welcome and Opening Carolyn Glynn Approval of the Agenda Approval of the Minutes of Previous GA Meeting 2017 and Decisions Reports and Project Updates 09:30 am Director`s Report Carolyn Glynn Financial Report 2017 Approval of the Budget Membership - New Members / Changes in Board of Directors 10:30 am Coffee Break 11:00 am Update on Ongoing Projects and Projects in Preparation 12:30 pm Lunch Break Agrinatura Working Groups (Round Tables) - Please indicate your participation during the online registration process - 02:00 pm Strategic Roads for the Future of Agrinatura: (I) Projects (II) Communication (III) Advocacy / Policy (IV) Research 03:30 pm Coffee Break 04:00 pm Presentations of the Working Groups and Ways Forward 05:00 pm Adoption Statement on Agricultural Research for Development on the Occasion of Agrinatura s 30 th Anniversary 05:30 pm End Carolyn Glynn 2

3 PART II: Agrinatura Happy Birthday Party - Open to the Public - Celebration - Fingerfood, Drinks and Talks 07:00 pm 30 Years of Agrinatura: Celebration, Reflection and The Future incl. Laudations & Open Discussion 09:00 pm End 07:15 pm Laudation: Pierre Fabre Senior Policy Officer, European Commission / DG DEVCO, Belgium 07:30 pm Laudation: Moses Osiru Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RURFORUM), Uganda 07:45 pm Laudation: Carl Erik Schou Larsen University of Copenhagen, Dept. of Science Education, Denmark or Institut for Naturfagenes Didaktik, Denmark??? OR Leif Christoffersen, Norway Open Discussion Registration and Welcome 08:00 am Registration DAY 2 Thursday, 26 April Open to the Public - 09:30 am Welcome Address Carolyn Glynn 09:45 am Welcome and Opening Andreas Schaller Vice President for Research, University of Hohenheim, Germany Stefan Schmitz Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Head of Directorate 12 Food, Agriculture, Rural Development and Commissioner of the special initiative ONE WORLD NO HUNGER 3

4 Workshops Workshop 1: The Role of Universities in the Research and Innovation Partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA) between the African Union and the EU: What does a Partnership mean to us? Chair: Carolin Callenius Executive Manager of the Hohenheim Research Center for Global Food Security and Ecosystems, University of Hohenheim, Germany 10:00 am Title. Person from EC 10:20 am Title. Luís Mira da Silva President of INOVISA, Professor at the Institute of Agronomy / Ulisboa, Portugal??? 10:40 am Title Mercy??? from Gates Foundation OR Solange Uwituze, Programme Manager for Partnerships and Business Management, RUFORUM Secretariat, Uganda 11:00 am Break up groups: (I) Higher Education Chair: Didier Pillot Agrinatura? 12:30 pm Lunch Break (II) Research Chair: Luís Mira da Silva President of INOVISA, Professor at the Institute of Agronomy / Ulisboa, Portugal??? Workshop 2: Meaningful Participation and True Multistakeholder Cooperation: How do we succeed? Chair: Alicia Kolmans Hohenheim Research Center for Global Food Security and Ecosystems, University of Hohenheim, Germany 02:00 pm Participatory plant breeding Bettina Haussmann Institute of Plant Breeding, Seed Science and Population Genetics, Dept. of Plant Breeding, University of Hohenheim, Germany 02:20 pm The expectations of industry or industry representative with experience with multi-actor projects 02:40 pm User led research - best practice Person from Ritter Sport 03:00 pm Title Roch L. Mongbo Linley Chiwona-Karltun Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Dept. of Urban and Rural Development, Sweden or PAEPARD 4

5 03:20 pm Discussion 04:00 pm Closure Carolyn Glynn 04:15 pm End Laboratory of Social Dynamics Analysis and Development Studies (LADyD), University of Abomey-Calavi (UAC), Benin or Fetien Abay Abera, Mekelle University (MU), Dept. of Dryland Crop and Horticulture Science, Ethiopia DAY 3 Friday, 17 April For Members Only - 09:00 am Agrinatura European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) Members Annual Meeting (MAM) 04:00 pm End MORE INFORMATION Please visit our website 5

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