The World Soybean Research Conference (WSRC11) will take place in Vienna, Austria, on 18 - 23 June 2023. The program is constantly evolving. You can find the most updated version here: Program | Vienna 2023 (wsrc11vienna.com)SESSION OVERVIEW Plenary sessions Monday:...
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Webinar: European Soya 2022 – Growing from strength to strength
Webinar: European Soya 2022 - Growing from strength to strength 13 December 2022, 11:00 - 12:00 CET via LinkedIn or YouTube Following the 2022 season, this webinar will be the opportunity for Donau Soja to present the latest harvest figures for...
Global Bean December meeting
Legumes in community catering 13 December 2022, 17:00 - 18:00 CET Public canteens are often, especially in schools, considered a mere cost item in the budget of a municipality or a company. Instead, collective catering can have an important...
Global Bean November meeting
European tour of local initiatives Increasing cultivation and consumption of pulses 15 November 2022, 17:00 - 18:00 CET In the Global North, pulse consumption per capita is much lower than recommended on a nutritional basis. It is also widely recognized...
Donau Soja 10 Years Anniversary Event
Donau Soja celebrated its first 10 years in Vienna on 29–30 September 2022 in the Hotel InterContinental. Impressions can be found under the following links: photos and video from the first day photos and video from the second day Food day, 30...
Global Bean October meeting
Discover on the 25th of October 2022 which agroecologically and environmentally friendly solutions we can take over from various regions in the world. After a general overview, Werner Vogt-Kaute from Naturland will analyse the most current and relevant problems we...
Haberlandt Award for soybean research in Europe and China
The Haberlandt Award recognises outstanding achievements in soybean research in Europe and China. This price is awarded by the Donau Soja Association in cooperation with the Soybean speciality committee of the Crop Science Society of China.Who are the winners? An...
Donau Soja 10 Years Anniversary Event
Donau Soja celebrates its first 10 years in Vienna on 29–30 September 2022. At this event, Donau Soja invites you as a member or partner to celebrate this success together. Registration | 10Years Donau Soja Marcella Gross-Varga Event- & Marketing Manager...
World Soybean Research Conference, 18-23 June 2023
The World Soybean Research Conference (WSRC11) will take place in Vienna, Austria, on 18 - 23 June 2023. Dear colleagues and guests, on behalf of the conference committees and the Donau Soja Association, the hosting institution, I feel truly honored and...
Introduction to the Legume Hub
What is the Legume Hub? Who does it serve? How can you get involved? Watch our introduction video! The purpose of the Legume Hub is to empower all interested in the development of legume crop production and use by providing access to validated knowledge. It is a...
Legumes and the hunger crisis
What role do legumes play in the emerging food security crisis? This question will be discussed together with several experts in the upcoming meeting of the Global Bean Network on May 19.Will the world see an even bigger hunger crisis than in 2008? Experts agree that...
Be vocal about local: Legumes for livestock
This webinar from Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) brings together some recent outcomes of research in Scotland on legume agronomy and its (feeding) value for livestock. About this event Chair: Ross Mackenzie (SAC Consultancy) Agenda 10.30 – 10.40:...
DAFA online workshop (in German): Double legume acreage by 2030!
On March 29 and 30, 2022, the online workshop of the Deutsche Agrarforschungsallianz (DAFA) will take place: Double legume acreage by 2030! The two-day workshop will address questions such as: Which "new" legume species can be used in mixed cropping? Which utilisation...
Satellite-based yield prediction system for optimal decision-making
On March 8 an online-workshop on the satellite-based yield prediction system for soybean, which evolved from a collaboration of the BioSense Institute and Donau Soja within the Horizon2020 project Cybele, will be held from 12-1:30pm CET. In the workshop it will be...
Global Bean’s Seed festival
On March 2 the Global Bean network invites to join the trans-european online seed festival that will concentrate on how to save and cultivate legume seed: beans, lentils, peas, chickpeas, faba and all their diversity. From 5 to 8 pm there will be a lot of storytelling...
Exploring bean biversity on world pulses day
At the occasion of world pulses day 2022, the global bean project will be exploring bean diversity. On Thursday, February 10, 17:00-18:00 CET, Patrick Kaiser from the swabian Genbänkle, Germany, will lead us through history, diversity, numbers and the beauty of...
Public opening of The Global Bean Network
On January 27, the public kick-off meeting of The Global Bean Network takes place. Participants will get to know the project’s partners across Europe and beyond. Further the components and events of the project will be introduced – starting with a European legumes...
Postdoc Position – Phenotyping and Agroecology of Legume Crops
The Crop Science Group of ETH Zurich seeks for a postdoctoral researcher to contribute to projects in phenotyping of soybean, peas and/or pulses. The three-year postdoc will develop approaches for “phenomic selection”, explore options to include legume crops into...
Symposium: Soy in the Anthropocene
Registration is open for the hybrid (on site and online) conference on 3 November 2021, organised by the Commission for Interdisciplinary Ecological Studies (KIOES) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW). The conference discusses how soy emerged from a regional...
Visit of Soybean Experimental Station Pavlikeni, Bulgaria
From June 16th to 18 th 2021, a delegation of the Donau Soja Moldova network visited the Experimental Soybean Station in Pavlikeni, Bulgaria. The purpose of the visit was to observe how Moldovan soybean varieties grow under the climatic conditions present at the...
Advances in Legume Science and Practice 2
The three day virtual conference ‘Advances in Legume Science and Practice 2‘, organised by the Association of Applied Biologists ‘Cropping And The Environment (CATE)’ specialist group, will take place 1 - 3 September 2021. Legume Science and Practice Conference The...