Last updated: 14 Dec 04

trainings organized and supported by ICARDA and associated with pgr work in the cac republics since 1998

Acknowledgement! Most of the activities that took place in the CAC republics would not have been possible without the facilitation and assistance of the ICARDA office/CGIAR Program Facilitation Unit (PFU) located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. We gratefully acknowledge the leadership and support of the the unit's management and staff.

Assisting national programs from ICARDAs mandate region to develop their own capacity to collect conserve and curate their own plant genetic resources is an important component of GRUs activitities. Training courses are regularly conducted by GRU scientists and include topics such as Genebank Management, Documentation, Field Taxonomy and Molecular Characterization.
Since 1984 - 2002 GRU has trained 689 scientists. In addition to training programs, scientists and technical staff from GRU also supply technical backstopping for national programs. For example a project sponsored by the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research and coordinated by GRU has facilitated the development of small genetic resource units in each of the eight CAC republics. In a related activity GRUs genebank manager has recently been traveling to the Caucus countries to advise on seed storage facility design and construction.

coming 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 Date Title Participants Venue    coming Feb, 2005 PhD scholarship: 3 years Sofia Kobakhia ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria March Lentil screening: 2 months Sevda Babaeva (Genetic Resources Institute, Azerbaijan) ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria  Dec English language course For details contact: PFU office in Tashkent PGR units of Central Asian countries Tashkent, Uzbekistan   2004 Oct Expert system Mukin Kadyrzhan Kazakh Scientific-Production Center of Farming and Plant Growing ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria 2003 Dec English language course PGR units of Central Asian countries and Georgia Tashkent, Uzbekistan Sept Database training Conducted by: Faizulla Abdulaev (Uzbekistan) Turkmenistan Aug 10-31 Database training Conducted by Natalya Rukhkyan (Armenia) and Tamar Jinjikhadze (Georgia) PGR units of Central Asian countries Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Uzbekistan Apr 20- July 30 GIS and database on the job training; 2 months Sofia Kobakhia (Georgia) ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria Apr 20- July 2 Characterization of Chickpea collection; on the job training for genebank operations, computer skills, language skills 2 months Kanat Samsaliev (Kyrgyzstan) ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria   2002 Dec 1- March 15 (2003) English language course 12 participants from all CAC countries Tashkent, Uzbekistan Nov-Dec Web-page design and construction; on the job training: 1,5 months Armenia: Natalya Rukhkyan Azerbaijan: Yagut Akbarova Georgia: Tamar Jinjikhadze ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria   Wheat Breeding Armenia: Hayk Azizbekyan Azerbaijan: Sevinj Mamedova Georgia: Alexander Loladze CIMMYT, Mexico June Genebank and PGR work; 10 day Azerbaijan: Yagut Akbarova VIR St.Petersburg, Russia Feb 2001- Mar 2002 Genebank management; on the job training 2 months Armenia: Natalya Rukhkyan Georgia: Tamar Jinjikhadze Australian Winter Wheat Collection (AWWC) Tamworth, Australia   2001 Dec PGR Documentation Training Central Asian countries and Georgia Tashkent, Uzbekistan Oct GIS training (diploma level);1 week Armenia: Natalya Rukhkyan Georgia: Tamar Jinjikhadze Tbilisi, Georgia June GIS training; 1 week Armenia: Natalya Rukhkyan Georgia: Tamar Jinjikhadze Tbilisi, Georgia May PGR Documentation Training; 1 week Armenia: Natalya Rukhkyan Azerbaijan: Yagut Akbarova Georgia: Tamar Jinjikhadze Kyrgyzstan: Elena Matveeva Tbilisi, Georgia May- June Characterization of collected material; on the job training for genebank operations, computer skills, language skills; 2 months Armenia: Rudik Nazaryan ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria     2000   Characterization of collected material; on the job training for genebank operations, computer skills, language skills; 2 months Armenia: Rudik Nazaryan ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria   Characterization of collected material; on the job training for genebank operations, computer skills, language skills Turkmenistan: Bayramgeldy Kurtgeldiyev ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria   1999 Characterization of collected material; on the job training for genebank operations, computer skills, language skills; 2 months Uzbekistan: Bitore Djumakhanov ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria Development of database for ex situ seed collection; 2 months Uzbekistan: Faizulla Abdullaev ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria   1998 Nov Seed genebank management; on the job training;2 weeks Uzbekistan: Yakubov Mirakbar ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria March Database management Uzbekistan: Faizulla Abdullaev VIR St. Petersburg, Russia Seed genebank management; on the job training; 2 weeks Georgia: Tamar Jinjikhadze ICARDA-GRU Aleppo, Syria

Last updated: 10 Sept 2004