Collaborative Projects

Research Initiatives We Support & Participate in

Research That Travels Beyond Our Frontiers

A phenotyping method only becomes a standard once it has been tested somewhere other than in its own lab. That is why a large part of our research runs inside collaborative programmes: publicly funded projects and joint research units where institutes, technical centres, universities, and companies work on the same question, on the same trials, with shared protocols.

Each project below lists what it sets out to do, who is involved, and what Hiphen brings to it. Together they are where our measurement pipelines are challenged, validated, and made reproducible from one site, season, and crop to the next.

European / PRIMA Projects

Ongoing

PHENET

Tools and methods for extended plant PHENotyping and EnviroTyping services of European Research Infrastructures

Four European research infrastructures and a group of innovative companies co-developing the tools and methods needed to characterise how combinations of species, genotypes and practices will perform under the climate scenarios ahead.

Period
Jan 2023 – Dec 2027
Funding programme
Horizon Europe
Partners
32
Countries
France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, United States
  • Plant phenotyping
  • Envirotyping
  • Research infrastructures
See the Project
Ongoing

HelEx

Use of extremophile Helianthus species to mitigate climate change impact on feedstock and ecosystem services provided by sunflower

Wild extremophile Helianthus species screened on robotised test beds and sequenced, to breed sunflowers that hold their yield and their ecosystem services through drought and heat.

Period
May 2023 – Apr 2027
Funding programme
Horizon Europe
Partners
18
Countries
France, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Serbia, Romania, Poland, Canada, United States
  • Sunflower
  • Climate resilience
  • Drought tolerance
See the Project
Ongoing

SIMONE

Systemic Innovations with Multiple performance evaluated in ON-farm Experimentations

SIMONE identifies, delivers, and evaluates innovations across technical, environmental, and economic dimensions, fostering cooperation between diverse actors to strengthen rural linkages and agricultural sustainability across North-West Europe.

Period
Jan 2024 – Feb 2028
Funding programme
Interreg North-West Europe
Partners
11
Countries
France, Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany
  • Agroecology
  • On-farm experimentation
  • Living labs
See the Project
Starting Soon

HALO-FORCE

Halophyte-Driven Innovation for Sustainable Farming in Mediterranean Wetlands

Three wild edible halophytes, Salicornia, Salsola soda and Beta maritima, tested as climate-resilient crops for the salt-affected wetlands of the Mediterranean basin.

Period
May 2026 – Apr 2030
Funding programme
PRIMA, under Horizon Europe
Partners
12
Countries
Italy, Egypt, Morocco, Türkiye, Greece, Croatia, Portugal, France
  • Halophytes
  • Soil salinity
  • Mediterranean wetlands
See the Project
Starting Soon

HEROCROP

Harnessing Emerging technologies for Resilient and Optimized CROP breeding to develop multi-stress ready agroecological systems across Europe’s diverse pedoclimatic regions

Wheat, pea and field tomato assessed against combinations of climate and biological stresses rather than one stress at a time, to find which adaptation levers hold in each European pedoclimatic context.

Period
Oct 2026 – Sep 2030
Funding programme
Horizon Europe
  • Climate change adaptation
  • Landraces
  • Genetic diversity
See the Project
Starting Soon

SustainVitis

Improving the sustainability of the wine value chain

A Marie Skłodowska-Curie industrial doctoral network training fifteen candidates across grapevine breeding, precision viticulture, low-input winemaking and the environmental footprint of the wine value chain.

Period
Sep 2026 – Aug 2030
Funding programme
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Industrial Doctoral Network
Partners
7
Countries
Italy, Germany, France, Portugal
  • Viticulture
  • Grapevine breeding
  • Precision viticulture
See the Project

Other Research Projects

Ongoing

DISRUPP

Diagnostic des maladies des plantes au champ par Imagerie et Séquençage haut débit pour la Réduction de l’Utilisation de Produits Phytosanitaires

Satellite and drone imagery to spot disease symptoms in the field, third-generation sequencing to confirm what they are, and the proof of concept that the two together support a more sparing use of crop protection products.

Period
Jan 2025 – Jun 2028
Funding programme
Casdar
  • Crop protection
  • Disease detection
  • Satellite imagery
See the Project
Ongoing

FFAST

Functioning From the Assimilation of Structural Traits

A model-assisted phenotyping strategy that turns structural traits measured at several scales, with several instruments, into the functional traits which describe a wheat genotype.

Period
Apr 2022 – Mar 2026
Funding programme
ANR
Partners
4
Countries
France
  • Wheat
  • Crop modelling
  • Functional plant models
See the Project
Ongoing

Agro Serv

More information coming soon
Ongoing

Agrifood Tef

More information coming soon
Ongoing

Pangeos

More information coming soon
Ongoing

Napguard

More information coming soon
Starting Soon

DESTRESS

Funding programme
Plant Alliance
More information coming soon

Networks

World map showing Hiphen in Avignon and the 7 networks it belongs to.
Ongoing

Plant Alliance

A twenty-nine member public and private consortium on the contribution of plant genetics to agroecological cropping systems, which Hiphen belongs to.

  • Plant genetics
  • Plant breeding
  • Agroecology
See the Project
Ongoing

ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding

ARC Training Centre in Predictive Breeding for Agricultural Futures

An Australian Research Council training centre on predictive breeding, run across five Australian universities with 36 partner organisations, which Hiphen joined in 2026.

Funding programme
Australian Research Council, Industrial Transformation Training Centres scheme
  • Predictive breeding
  • Multi-omics
  • Artificial intelligence
See the Project
Ongoing

IPPN

International Plant Phenotyping Network

The association of the major plant phenotyping centres, registered in Germany since 2016, which Hiphen is a member of.

  • Plant phenotyping
  • Sensors
  • Affordable phenotyping
See the Project
Ongoing

UFS

Union Française des Semenciers

The French seed industry association: more than a hundred companies working on variety improvement, seed production and seed marketing, which Hiphen belongs to.

Countries
France
  • Seed industry
  • Plant breeding
  • Variety improvement
See the Project
Ongoing

Phenome-Emphasis

PHENOME-EMPHASIS.FR, the French plant phenotyping research infrastructure

The French national plant phenotyping infrastructure, ten experimental platforms across the country, and the French node of the European EMPHASIS infrastructure.

Funding programme
Programme d’investissements d’avenir
Partners
4
Countries
France
  • Plant phenotyping
  • Research infrastructure
  • Controlled environments
See the Project
Ongoing

APPN

Australian Plant Phenomics Network

Australia’s network of national research infrastructures for plant and agricultural science, nine host organisations giving open access to plant phenotyping facilities.

Funding programme
National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS)
Partners
9
Countries
Australia
  • Plant phenotyping
  • Research infrastructure
  • Controlled environments
See the Project
Ongoing

NAPPN

North American Plant Phenotyping Network

The North American association of plant phenomics scientists, and the regional partner of IPPN on that side of the Atlantic.

Countries
United States, Canada, Mexico
  • Plant phenomics
  • Data standards
  • Public-private partnerships
See the Project

Projects We Have Completed Over the Years

  1. RésiDiv

    Nov 2022 – Apr 2026 · Casdar

  2. CLIMAF

    May 2022 – Nov 2024 · European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (FEADER)