In order to encourage greater use of ex situ conservation techniques, the IPAMed project, in collaboration with the CARE-MEDIFLORA project (Conservation Actions for Threatened Mediterranean Island Flora) offered to representatives of 11 partner institutions from 7 countries of the South and East of the Mediterranean, the possibility to take part to a practical training on the application of these techniques.

These two weeks training will take place at Hortus Botanicus Karalitanus (Cagliari, Sardinia) and at the Mediterranean Plant Conservation Unit of the Med. Agronomic Institute of Chania – MAICh (Crete/Greece).

All the trainees have in common the fact to be involved in conservation actions focused on rare or threatened species within an Important Plant Area which require ex situ conservation techniques.