With more than 100 participants from more than 10 countries around Europe, the session attracted high interest from the breeders and other industry professionals who are worried about the consequences of climate change. Most of the audience agreed that climate change is an issue and this made the presentation of the project results interesting.

The session was moderated by Romans Vorss, Technical Affairs Director at Europatat. Markus Teige, Senior Lecturer at the University of Vienna, and Rashmi Sasidharan, Professor at Utrecht University showcased the main scientific results of the project, which aims to understand the signalling pathways for single and combined abiotic stresses to the selection of potato cultivars more resilient to climate change.

Guus Heselmans, manager R&D Meijer Potato presented the practical results from a point of view of a potato breeder and encouraged other breeders to join projects like ADAPT. Lastly, a panel discussion including also the participation of Christian Bachem, Wageningen Research and Gisela Quaglia, DG AGRI, EU Commission, highlighted that there is a future for project findings and the breeding industry needs to take an advantage of project results.

Finally, all the panellists highlighted the value of close cooperation and multi-actor approach in EU research projects.

More ADAPT results will be published soon as the project is coming to an end this summer.