Opportunity Calls

EVOLTREE Opportunity Call 2024/2025

The EVOLTREE Opportunity Call 2024/2025 was closed 31.01.2025. The proposals submitted are under evaluation and the results will be published soon. G-08-2024: EVOLTREE Opportunity Call 2024/2025 | European Forest Institute

EVOLTREE Opportunity Call 2025/2026

The new call 2025/2026 will be published in summer 2025.

You are an early-career researcher or a permanent researcher and you are a member of an EVOLTREE partner lab?
You have a good research idea in the field of evolutionary genetics and genomics of forest trees, but lack funding to carry it out? Leap into action with the network's research initiative, OPPORTUNITY!

The OPPORTUNITY grant will support an independent research activity linked to the following major disciplines: Ecology, Genetics, Genomics and Evolution aiming at increasing knowledge on climate adaptation, forest health, productivity and conservation in forest ecosystems, using population and quantitative genetics, and genomics approaches.

The funding is meant to support innovative ideas and not as an additional funding to ongoing larger projects. Funding can be used for traveling, project-related expenses, hiring of personnel, or any other funds needed to develop your idea.

EVOLTREE Opportunity Call 2022/2023 - Award

The 2023/2024 call has been awarded to Enrique Saez-Laguna.

Title of his project: "Using pangenomics to compare the effect of point mutations, structural variants, and DNA methylation in shaping the adaptive phenotypes across European white oak species” (PanMutOak). The project aims at obtaining six genomes of white oak species (Q. canariensis, Q. faginea, Q. petraea, Q. pubescens, Q. pyrenaica and Q. robur) through high quality PacBio HiFi reads that will be used to build the first pangenome of the European white oak syngameon. The pangenome will be used to compare single nucleotide, structural and DNA methylation variation among species. Then, mutations predicted to have strong different effects among species will be identified – with a special focus on genes with adaptive functions – in order to obtain a list of genes potentially interesting for oak genetic resources management.

More information will be available in due time.

Opportunity Calls

Save the date! Joint EVOLTREE-FORGENIUS Conference / Third Biannual EVOLTREE Conference. 18-21 Nov 2025, Madrid, Spain