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The Nordic genebank and knowledge center for genetic resources.
We safeguard the Nordic genetic resources and facilitate the sustainable use for agriculture, horticulture and forestry, for current and future generations.
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault
NordGen is responsible for the contact with genebanks worldwide interested in depositing duplicates of their seed collections to Svalbard Global Seed Vault. We also handle all the seeds that are sent here for safekeeping.
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GENBIS
Are you a researcher, plant breeder or do you need seeds from the Nordic seed collection in your profession in another way? Then you're welcome to place your order in the database for the Nordic and Baltic genebanks, GENBIS.
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Read our publications!
Reports, manuals, conservation plans and scientific articles. Here you will find all publications published by NordGen, or texts that are authored or co-authored by our staff.
News
Practical role, global meaning – first-hand experience from NordGen’s soon-to-be Seed Vault Coordinator
Very few people in the world are ever allowed to enter the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Even fewer visit the facility often enough to become familiar with its long rows of ice‑cold seed boxes. Soon, Fuad Gaši will be one of these rare people. Meet NordGen’s newly appointed Seed Vault Coordinator.
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Svalbard Global Seed Vault Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
Read the articleNetwork aims to boost interest in a versatile but underutilised resource – Nordic wool in focus during workshop in the Faroe Islands
Read the articleNow you can apply for the annual forest scholarship – supporting networking and future forest research
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Our projects
NordGen participate in several different projects focusing on genetic resources in the Nordic region. Our project partners can be found throughout the Nordics and Baltics but also in the rest of the world.
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