Welcome to the GCP’s Capacity Building Corner.
Here you can find information about GCP training events, fellowship and grant opportunities, and other human resource development activities in the fields of plant genetic resources, genomics, and molecular breeding. The Capacity Building Corner is sponsored by Subprogramme 5 of the Generation Challenge Programme: Capacity-Building and Enabling Delivery.
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Resources
The Generation Challenge Programme (GCP) coordinates and supports various workshops and training courses on GCP-related topics related Here, you will find various resources from those courses for individual use or for class settings. You are warmly invited to freely use and/or print any of these materials for educational or other non-commercial purposes without prior permission, provided due credit is attributed. Any other use requires the permission of the course organiser(s). The resources are organised as follows: -
The GCP Molecular Marker Toolkit aims to provide easy and unlimited access to existing information on molecular markers used in breeding programmes. This Toolbox is primarily developed for biotechnologists and plant breeders in developing countries who currently have limited access to up-to-date information from present day sources.
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GCP learning materials span several subjects (eg, policies, genomics, etc), and are directly organised by Subprogramme 5 (SP5) through workshops or commissioned work at Subrogramme (SP5) level.
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Workshop resources: Here, you will find a useful guide for organising GCP workshops, as well as materials from Subprogramme 5 workshops and project-level workshops
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Services & Tools
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Opportunities
- Feature stories
Setting up for the future: GCP organises workshop in eager anticipation of a key GCP project soon-to-be released
From 13th ─17th November 2008 participants hailing from 28 countries gathered for a GCP workshop on 'Reference sets of food crop germplasm for international collaboration' in Montpellier, France. With GCP’s Phase I (2004–2008) soon set to draw to a close, and with Phase II (2009–2013) just around the corner, this vital transition period provided a perfect backdrop for focusing on both the aspects involved in the development of, and the next steps required to take advantage of, a major GCP product: diverse germplasm reference samples with validated data of reference markers, soon to be accessible as a global public good in a robust form. The workshop audience was drawn from across the plant science spectrum, including specialised scientists (comprising both scientists already involved in GCP projects and non-GCP collaborators), germplasm scientists and managers, and plant breeders.