AMIGA project Coordinator, Dr Salvatore Arpaia, and deputy coordinator, Dr Antoine Messean, chaired the 3rd General Assembly, which gathered AMIGA partners at INRA in Paris, the 7th and 8th January 2015.
Dr Arpaia opened the meeting giving an overview of the project objectives and expected results, and summarised main achievements and next steps in this final phase of AMIGA. As for the expected outcomes, the consortium will particularly work on the creation of a network of shared resources file sites, as well as on the set up of a network of laboratories. In this concern, continuous contacts with national competent authorities will be established and the consortium as whole will be involved.
In this last year of project activities, the main outcomes included: field studies, database, survey on protection goals, data collected from five different European regions, in planta trophic studies on NTOs, completion of soil molecular analyses, and third year collection of butterfly data.
After the detailed presentation of the activities of each work package, the assembly agreed on a plan, which will bring AMIGA to the final steps of its four years research activities.