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March 3 at INTA central, Buenos-Aires, the INTA national authorities participated to a meeting to discuss the possibility to develop long lasting cooperation between two of the participants of TOPWOOD (INTA, Argentina and INRA, France) by creating an International Associated Laboratory (AIL). The participants were the President of the INTA Amadeo Nicora, the National Scientific Director Hector Espina, the head of the National Forest Research program Hugo Fassola and the head of the Internal Affairs service Ana Cipolla. Several others people in charge and researchers involved into the collaboration participated, as well as one TOPWOOD INRA French staff currently seconded at INTA Tandil (Têtè Barigah, INRA Clermont-Ferrand, France). Carolyne Dürr from the INRA International Service, as well as Alejandro Martinez-Meier (INTA TOPWOOD coordinator and member of the TOPWOOD coordination committee) and Philippe Rozenberg (TOPWOOD coordinator, INRA), also participated to the meeting.

The reception was excellent and very encouraging. All the INTA authorities, local as well as national, scientific as well as institutional, strongly support the AIL project and encourage us to continue with the project construction. The President of the INTA Amadeo Nicora is going to meet the INRA general director Philippe Mauguin on March 23 in France. He proposes to take advantage of this meeting to jointly sign a letter of intent declaring that both INTA and INRA support the construction and the creation of the AIL.