Dear Christoph, dear all,
Thanks for your work on the report, everyone!
On adding Fulya to the list in her new capacity (as it was a request by me ;)): Fulya will by contracted by ARCHE NOAH to do this work, it is part of the project funded by Gen-ethische Stiftung, which I talked about in the annual meeting in February.
It primarily includes capacity building on patents in EU countries where (seed and other) organizations are not yet working on the topic, and support for ARCHE NOAH’s work on patents, including our European perspective on patents on seeds. We will for sure coordinate this closely with the NPOS coalition, as I emphasized in Munich.
We are very happy to have Fulya's support on this issue again, and am sure the project and her input will be of great benefit to our coalition, too.
I’m working under a tight deadline today, but we can update you more in detail if needed next week. It would also be good to schedule a coordination call on the project soon, we’ll get back to you on that, Johanna and Christoph.
Have a great weekend! Dagmar
Dagmar Urban ARCHE NOAH Politik / Policy
Gesellschaft zur Erhaltung und Verbreitung der Kulturpflanzenvielfalt / Central European Seeds Savers Association Obere Straße 40, 3553 Schiltern, Austria
Mobile: +43 676 931 81 80 www.arche-noah.at
-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Npos_2018 [mailto:npos_2018-bounces@testbiotech.de] Im Auftrag von Christoph Then Gesendet: Freitag, 24. April 2020 09:58 An: npos_2018@testbiotech.de; fulya.batur@kybelesrl.co Betreff: [Npos_2018] Now, after the report is published ..
Dear all,
this was hard work, but we managed a as team very well. Thanks to you all!
I would not expect media many reports (although we tried in Germany) but the main target group for our work under Corona can not be just journalists.
Good news: We already received E-Mail from German Parliament that they will use the report to restart to debate, they might try to organise an online conference... let us see.
But this is the direction we now have to take: We have to run a wake up call before the Enlarged Board publishes its decision.
(1) Please use the report as much as you can to inform your parliament, government, experts.
(2) Johanna could develop a series of postings in social media, using the 11 examples.
(3) we also have to prepare media communication for the upcoming decision of the Enlarged Board
(4) we have to consider to run another push (maybe using new examples) before the meeting of the AC in June (I guess there will be some gathering, maybe just online).
(5) we could discuss that our office tries to get in contact directly with governments / national experts in countries were we do not have a representative (Italy? France? Spain? Poland? others?). I will draft a letter that will be sent to the Members of the AC next week. However in some countries we might need more activities.
In addition I now will try to sort out some organisatorial issues, also together with the Board, which I did not have the time yet. I also will prepare letters to call for the outstanding funding.
I also was asked to add Fulya (working with Arche Noah before) to the list which is working on a EU educational project with NGOs. I would agree. Maybe Fulya can send some more informations.
So let us congratulate each other, I think we did a good job under difficult conditions and now can look forward to achieve our goals.
do we need a phone call in May?
Cheers
Christoph
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