Why europe?

Genome editing has the potential to make a critical contribution to make food systems more sustainable and more resilient to climate change.
Dirk Inzé Full Professor at Ghent University, Scientific Director of the VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology and Coordinator of the EU-SAGE (European Sustainable Agriculture through Genome Editing) network
Enrico Letta
Europe is its peoples, its diversity, its creativity, its historical, artistic, and landscape heritage, its openness, its tolerance, but also its wars, its tragedies and its shameful events...
Enrico Letta Former Prime Minister of Italy
Democracy is not about consensus building, but about peaceful communication and finding solutions through compromise.
Christiane Woopen Chair of the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies; Exec. Director of the Center for Ethics, Rights, Economics, and Social Sciences of Health (CERES), University of Cologne
The OECD is proud and eager to engage in initiatives that aim to reflect and provide a long-term perspective on what should be the way forward for the Europe
Angel Gurría OECD Secretary-General
Alain Lamassoure
The European Union has fulfilled is historic mission. Bravo! But this was the challenge of last century. New century. New world. New challenge.
Alain Lamassoure Member of the European Parliament
We have taken democracy for granted. Reality is that those things we have taken for granted are no more.
Anthony Gooch Director of Public Affairs & Communications at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
Making explicit the values that underpin innovation in agriculture and clarifying the chain of responsibilities is paramount in the context of present developments
Anne Cambon-Thomsen Emeritus Research Director, French National Centre for Scientific Research