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COLiBRI brings together actors from across the plant breeding value chain – genetic resources collections, public research organizations, research infrastructures, private breeders, farmer organizations, end-users, policymakers and funders. Together, we assess priorities, gaps and opportunities for plant breeding R&I in the EU, covering all farming systems and approaches.
As a COLiBRI stakeholder, you are invited to co-create a strategic roadmap, implementation plan and governance framework for a coordinated European plant breeding R&I network and funding mechanism.
Your active participation will shape how Europe responds to climate change, biodiversity loss, food and nutritional insecurity, and mounting pressure on agricultural competitiveness.
Sign up to our Stakeholder Community to join the conversation: share your perspective, stay informed on progress and be invited to consultations, workshops and co-creation activities as the project develops.
We collect your personal data solely for the purposes of the COLiBRI project and its stakeholder engagement. Read our Privacy policy for more information.
COLiBRI Stakeholder Community PRIVACY NOTICE
If you register via our website for the COLiBRI Stakeholder Community, we collect and process your personal data and are therefore by law required to provide you with information about us, about why and how we use your data, and about the rights you have over your data.
Who are we?
The party responsible for processing data on the COLiBRI website is the European Cooperative Programme for Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR), hosted at the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Our address is Via di San Domenico, 1, 00153 Rome, Italy. You can contact us by post at the above address or by email at ecpgr@cgiar.org
What information do we collect?
When you register for the COLiBRI Stakeholder Community, we collect the following information:
- Your demographics and contact information: first name, family name, organization, your function within the organization, website of your organization, city, country, email contact, phone contact (optional), gender (optional)
- Your stakeholder group/category
- Your expertise, interests and expectations
Why do we collect your information?
Your registration data is processed for the purpose of voluntary cooperation as a stakeholder within the COLiBRI project. Therefore, the legal basis for our processing is Art. 6(1)a GDPR. If you make use of the registration form, ECPGR will receive and save the data you fill in in the registration form.
If you cooperate as a stakeholder, your data will be used for the following purposes:
- To ensure successful communication and cooperation between the stakeholders and the project partners
- For reporting purposes within the COLiBRI consortium
The data collected will be used to contact people affiliated with the organizations involved in the COLiBRI Stakeholder Community. Your personal data will be used to include you in mailing lists of the COLiBRI project and to contact you to engage in co-creation surveys and interviews, for dissemination of information related to the project, as well as if we need to request further clarification regarding the information that you submit to us.
What do we do with your information?
Your contact information, as well as any personal information you provide, will only be available to specific COLiBRI project partners, to be used in outreach for relevant tasks and activities.
Your data will only be processed within the European Union. The partners who will be able to access your data are located in Italy (ECPGR), Belgium (Euroseeds, EPSO, Plant ETP), France (INRAE), Germany (JKI), Netherlands (WUR) and Denmark (Aarhus University).
Only if you provide your official agreement in the survey, your personal information may be shared with other partners in the COLiBRI project consortium, for project-specific purposes only.
Only if you provide in the survey your official agreement, the name and location of your organization, in the form that you have provided us, will appear on a stakeholder map on the COLiBRI website, which is publicly available.
How long do we keep your information?
Your personal data will be stored for the complete duration of the project.
Periods for retention result from the applicable Horizon Europe provisions. In accordance thereto, the data must be retained for up to 5 years after receipt of the project's final payment, according to Art. 15 Grant Agreement.
We ask for your consent to do this, and we will only keep your data in our database for as long as you continue to consent. You can request us at any time to remove it from the database by sending an email to ecpgr@cgiar.org
Your rights over your information
By law, you can ask us what information we hold about you, and you can ask us to correct it if it is inaccurate. You can also ask for it to be erased and you can ask us to give you a copy of the information. You can also ask us to stop using your information – the simplest way to do this is to withdraw your consent, which you can do at any time, by emailing or writing to us using the contact details above.
Your right to complain
If you have a complaint about our use of your information, we would prefer you to contact us directly in the first instance so that we can address your complaint. However, you can also contact the Italian Data Protection Authority via their website at garanteprivacy.it or write to them at: Piazza Venezia, 11 – 00187 Rome, Italy.
In signing this document, you indicate that you have read and understood how your personal data will be processed, your related rights, and that, if you have given your consent, you agree to the processing of your data as provided in this document. If any new questions arise, you can contact us using the information provided above.