Wednesday 31 and Thursday 31 more than  20 representatives from European and International Agricultural Research Organizations met to discuss opportunities offered by the new Horizon2020 program of the  European Commission.

In the first part of the meeting ongoing projects were presented. It emerged clearly from most of the presentations that there is an urgent need of an infrastructure facility to store, manage and share common vocabularies and ontologies.  It was evidenced that there is a) a lack of many standardized vocabularies and b)a lack of horizontal and vertical integration.

In the second part of the meeting known challenges of the some of the new workprograms were presented and discussed.  Some interesting areas were identified for further investigation.