Welcome to the #GiveGenesAChance campaign! Initiated by David Spencer and Svenja Augustin, both PhD students from Germany working in plant science. In 2021 we started our work with a joint statement signed by now over 370 early career researchers from all over Europe! Calling on the European Union to adopt a science-based regulation of gene-edited crops. Enabling the daily work of thousands of European scientists to advance our crops aiding our ambitious goals of the Farm2Fork strategy to reach a resilient more sustainable agriculture in Europe!
Our aim is to connect, empower and represent early career researchers across Europe working in life sciences. We want to provide a community that allows to learn the necessary skills and work together to voice our vision and ideas on the political stage of Europe!
A collaboration of the early-career researcher-led NGOs by ÖkoProg, the GeneSprout Initative and WePlanet.
Watch our 2021’s campaign trailer
Early-Career Researchers & Supporters by country
🇦🇹 Austria
Alibek Abdrakhmanov
Mai Thu Bu
Pieter Clauw
Marion Clavel
Yasin Dagdas
Marta Garcia Leon
Nenad Grujic
Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid
Marintia Nava
Lorenzo Picchianti
Lukas Pucher
Victor Sanchez de Medina
Madlen Stephani
Carlos Tello
Raimund Tenhaken
Stefan Uttenthaler
Jose Julian Valenzuela
Helmut Windl
Mina Zamini
Ni Zhan
Jierui Zhao
🇧🇪 Belgium
Andrea Ariani
Héloïse Bastiaanse
Fabian Beeckman
Barbara Berckmans
Kaushal Kumar Bhati
Wout Boerjan
Frederik Coussement
Ward Decaestecker
Minne De Clercq
Bert De Rybel
Mirko De Vivo
Ilias El Houari
Nikita Gerebtsov
Martina Helmlinger
Marah Heyerick
Tobias Heyman
Lennart Hoengenaert
Maarten Houben
Dirk Inze
Hannah Lernout
Soetkin Leys
Chiara Lonigro
Ibe Naessens
Kewin Ogink
Pierre-Louis Peeters
Savio Rodrigues
Florence Sinove
Thomas Smorscek
Gwen Swinnen
Lisse Thierens
Freya Persyn
Mirthe Van Buyten
Nick Vangheluwe
Yasmine Vanhevel
Lara Van Dijck
Joris Van Dorpe
Ruben Vanholme
Jelle Van Leene
Natasha Van Loy
Bram Verslype
Bram Verstappe
Marlies Wouters
🇳🇱 Netherlands
Jean Clavel
Halford Dace
Elena Del Pup
Marc Galland
Bart Geraats
Patricija Gran
Judith Kamerbeek
Marietheres Kleuter
Lejon Kralemann
Franck Lhuissier
Christian Monkelbaan
Juriaan Rienstra
Dick Roelofs
Gert-Jan Speckmann
W. Tameling
Alessandro Valisi
John Van der Oost
Hazel van Waijjen
Ludvik Wachowski
Julia Wind
🇧🇬 Bulgaria
Dimitar Djilianov
🇨🇿 Czech Republic
Tomáš Hluska
Tomas Kocabek
Tomas Moravec
🇫🇷 France
Pietro Della Sala
Ulla Dolde
Yann Duroc
Maria Naranjo
Théo Pellenz
Thomas Potuschak
Carsten Schradin
Julien Teychene
🇩🇰 Denmark
Jonathan Dahlin
Anja Ehrmann
Kristoffer Bach Falkenberg
Knud Bay Smidt
Stephan Wenkel
Nicolas Wirth
🇪🇪 Estonia
Mati Koppel
Lee Põllumaa
🇫🇮 Finland
Noemi Gutierrez Valdes
Saku Mattila
Nea Niemimaa
Alan Schulman
Teemu H Teeri
Iiris Terävä
Veikka Matic Valtanen
🇮🇹 Italy
Alessandro Alboresi
Alessandro Armagni
Vittoria Brambilla
Andrea Carrassi
Nicolò Fattore
Carlotta Ferrario
Silvia Manrique
Tomas Morosinotto
Cecilia Décima Oneto
🇵🇹 Portugal
Diana Acácio
Carla Amaro
Cristina Azevedo
Margarida Basaloco
Jordana Branco
Gonçalo Elias da Silva
Rita Hasse Ferreira
Pedro Fevereiro
Ana Margarida Fortes
Augusto Franco
Asmae Jlilat
Alpar-Vajk Kramer
Miguel Leitão
Miguel Monteiro Teixeira
Paula R Oblessuc
Cátia Patrício
Ana Marta Pereira
Cláudia Rato da Silva
Ana Miguel Reis
Pedro Rosa
Rita B. Santos
Hadi Sheikhnejad
Ana Cláudia Silva
Diana Sousa
Diana Pimentel
🇪🇸 Spain
Rafael Aparicio Sanchis
Alejandro Atarés
Isaac Barona Martínez
Leonor Bedoya
Juan Manuel Belda Lois
Virginia Borges Arias
Benito Orihuel-Iranzo
Lorenzo Burgos Ortiz
Beatriz Cuenca
Marcos de la Peña
Pedro Diaz-Vivancos
Francisco Espejo
Antonio Fuertes
Iriana Galan Arriero
Juan Carlos Gallego
Pietro Gramazio
Toni Granell
Francisco González
Amaya Lopez
Eusebio López
Jaume Martinez
Paz Merelo
Eduardo Milani Vargas
Sergio Monge Benito
Iria Ruipérez Nogueira
Concepción Novillo
Eva Bataller Perelló
Miguel Angel Perez Amador
José Manuel Pérez Ortiz
Diego Marina
Juli Pereto
Marina Rodríguez
Manuel Rodríguez-Concepción
Andrés García Saavedra
Elena Sáenz
Manuel Sanchez
Maria Amelia Sanchez Pina
Jose M. Segui-Simarro
Antonio Serrano-Mislata
José David Toledo Guerrero
Pablo Vera
Lynne Yenush
🇩🇪 Germany
Muhammad Shahedul Alam
Carolin Alfs
Denise Annaker
Borjana Arsova
Svenja Augustin
Kerstin Baier
Larissa Barl
Nicolas Bayer
Martin Becker
Alex Beesley
Florian Berger
Uwe Biermann
Merle Bilstein-Schloemer
Denise Blume
Theresa Bock
Lena Borgmann
Marc Alexander Braun
Peter Breunig
Dominik Brilhaus
Marcel Bucher
Maria J Calderan Rodrigues
Catarina Cardoso
Florencia Casanova
Sindy Chamas
Lisa Clark
Hendrik Cooper
Maria Cuacos
Yvonne Danisch
Werner Danner
Melanie Demuth
Nico Dissmeyer
Lukas Dittiger
Armin Djamei
Florian Dunker
Paloma Duran
Steven Dreischhoff
Ilya Elenskiy
Pia Engel
Lisa Fischer
Irene Maria Fontana
Matthias Freh
Michael Fuchs
Daniel Garcia
Andres Garcia Aguilar
Niklas Gawenda
Felix Getzke
Guido Grossmann
Carsten Grötzinger
Johannes Güntert
Caroline Gutjahr
Hendrik Hanekamp
Jens Harnisch
Frank Hartung
Margareta Hellmann
Fritz Hemker
Götz Hensel
Nele Herrmann Valente
Christian Hertig
Marvin Hildebrandt
Ute Höcker
Robert Hoffie
Bernhard Huber
Jan Hübbers
Ralph Hückelhoven
Kai Hußnätter
Clara Igisch
René Inckemann
Setareh Jamali Jagdhani
Niklas Udo Jung
Jakob Kaa
Christian-Frederic Kaiser
Sandip Kale
Johannes Kaufmann
Isabel Keller
Valentin Kettel
Abdul Saboor Khan
Abul Khayer
Niklas Kleinenkuhnen
Jörg Klug
Lena Knorr
Iris Koeppel
Stanislav Kopriva
Johannes Kopton
Jorg Körner
Philipp Kreisz
Raissa Krone
Anandi Kugele
Sonja Kunstmann
Stefan Kusch
Natalie Laibach
Caspar Langenbach
Josephin Laskowski
Sascha Laubinger
Andrea Leibfried
Franz Leißing
Annika Lenic
Sophie Lichtenauer
Johann Liebeton
Maja Lobermeier
Clara Lüchtrath
Ulrich Lutz
Dennis Mahr
Patrick Martin
Anna Matuszyńska
Anja Matzk
Isabel Maurus
Victor Mays
Jelco Mensch
Laura Merx
Simon Mitreiter
Jannes Moormann
Fabio Moratti
Elena Moreno
Daniel Moser
Benedikt Müller
Manuela Nagel
Christin Naumann
Mary Ngigi
Alexander Niederau
Steffen Noleppa
Ulrich Oberdieck
Charlotte Ost
Stefan Pabst
Ralph Panstruga
Edgar Peiter
Paulo Peralta
Alexander Pfaff
Roland Pieruschka
Klaus Pillen
Jan Plewka-Mandelkow
Dominik Priesmann
Boas Pucker
Krzysztof Robin Pukacz
Larissa Pusch
Beena M Ravindran
Laura Redzich
Martin Reich
Oliver Reisen
Elena Rey
Philipp Rohmann
Jeremy Ruß
Björn Sabelleck
Mayuri Sadoine
Lorena Balsera Sanchez
Naïra Sarkis
Jacob Sarx
Pooja Satpathy
Stephanie Schaarschmidt
Andreas Schiermeyer
Jenia Schlegel
Andreas Schmidt
Laura Schmidt
Leon Schmitz
Paula Schoett
Lilli Schuetz
Stefanie Schulze
Ulrich Schurr
Markus Schwarzländer
Patrick Schwinges
Rüdiger Simon
Mansi Singh
David Spencer
Petra Sprick
Johana Stadtel
Stefan Steckenborn
Nils Stein
Eva Steinbach-Knödgen
Alex Sternberg
Daniel Stumpf
Lara Suckut
Xuan Tran
Haim Treves
Sebastian Triesch
Adriana Trutzenberg
Joost van Dongen
Marta vega Marin
Jana Verbancic
Stefan Vidal
Catalin Voiniciuc
Maria von Korff
Christina Wäsch
Verena Wanders
Andreas Weber
Jakob Weber
Detlef Weigel
Linda Werner
Maximilian Wiechmann
Micha Wijesingha Ahchige
Traud Winkelmann
Lennart Wirthmüller
Claus-Peter Witte
Frederike Zeibig
Rita Zrenner
Matias Zurbriggen
🇸🇪 Sweden
Daria Chrobok
Gesa Hoffmann
Jibbe Keulen
🇱🇻 Latvia
Nils Rostoks
🇸🇰 Slovakia
Alain Shumbusho
🇵🇱 Poland
Pankaj Kumar