Research Communication

The communication of research results and the communication among the organic scientific community is an important goal of FiBL.It is active at various levels.

Conferences

FiBL (co-)organises scientific and R&D-events. Currently the following events are under preparation.

• February 27-29, 2008, Solothurn, Switzerland
  Codis 2008: International congress - Compost and digestate: sustainability, benefits, impacts for the environment and for plant production
  Together with the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and the Association of Swiss Compost Plants (ASCP)
  FiBL Contact: Jacques Fuchs
  
  
• June 16-20, .2008, Modena, Italy
  2nd Scientific Conference of the International Society of Organic Agriculture Research ISOFAR as part of the 16th IFOAM Organic World Congress
  Together with ISOFAR, IOL, DARCOF, Consorzio Modena Bio 2008, IFOAM
  FiBL Contact: Helga Willer
  
  
• 11.-13.2.2009, Zürich, Switzerland
  10. Scientific Conference on Organic Agriculture in the German Speaking Countries. Together with Agroscope and ETH Zürich
  FiBL Contact: Thomas Alföldi

Switzerland

• FiBL is active in the Agroscope-FiBL coordination group on organic farming research in Switzerland.
  FiBL contact: Thomas Alföldi

Germany

• Establishment and maintenance of the research internet platform forschung.oekolandbau.de funded under the German Federal Organic Farming Scheme (Project Wissenschaftsplattform des Zentralen Internetportals Ökologischer Landbau)
  FiBL Contact: Julia Meier

European activities

• European ERA-Net project Core Organic:
  FiBL is responsible for the documentation of Swiss ongoing organic farming research and research publications.Furthermore it was in charge of setting up a portal on organic farming research in 11 European countries at www.coreportal.org,
  FiBL contacts: Thomas Alföldi, Urs Niggli, Helga Willer
  
  
• FiBL particpation in European projects: List
  FiBL Contact: Bettina Landau
  
  
• European research project list at www.organic-europe.net
  FiBL contact: Helga Willer

International activities

• International Society of Organic Agriculture Research ISOFAR. FiBL is a co-founder of ISOFAR.
  FiBL contact:: Urs Niggli: Vice-president of ISOFAR.

Organic Eprints Archive

• In the framework of the German Federal Organic Farming Scheme FiBL set up a German language version of the Organic Eprints Archive, and it is one of the main supporters of the archive.
  FiBL contact: Helga Willer

Addresses

• A list of addresses of research institutions in Europe has been compiled by FiBL in the framework of the Core Organic ERA-Net project.
  FiBL Kontakt: Helga Willer

Research structures in organic farming

• FiBL staff have published several papers on research structures in Europe
  FiBL contact: Helga Willer