France is home to a wide variety of plant resources that are valuable for research and plant breeding, preserved in Biological Resource Centers (BRCs). The Florilège portal is a key tool for facilitating access to these collections, bringing together data from all of these centers in a single entry point.

The call for projects “Pioneers of AI” (September 11, 2025 – June 9, 2026), operated by Bpifrance with the Digital Programs Agency, supports R&D projects with high potential for technological disruption: projects must aim to implement a technological innovation with a transformative impact on the economy, ecological transition, and national sovereignty, demonstrated by the treatment of an identified use case.

On October 9 and 10, participants in the Biodicapt project gathered for the operational launch of the large-scale, sensor-based biodiversity monitoring project, which supports ecosystem services for the assessment of agroecological systems.