The CropSustaIn project Final conference was organised on 23rd of September, 2015 on the Castle Jable, Loka pri Mengšu, Slovenia. 90 participants from research institutions, faculties, agricultural advisory service, Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food of the Republic of Slovenia, trade and other companies associated with agriculture attended the conference.
Examples of co-operation between science, research and practice in tropical areas, Denmark and Slovakia were presented by invited lecturers from United Kingdom, Denmark and Slovakia. The work of the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia was described by the representative of this institution, the work and financing of Agricultural Institute of Slovenia by its director and the achievements of the project CropSustain by the project coordinator. Project Agrotur as an example of efficient knowledge transfer to local producers at Karst cross-border region, the role of Slovene plant gene bank at the Agricultural Institute of Slovenia in plant breeding as well as new varieties bred at Agricultural Institute of Slovenia were shown by the lecturers from Agricultural Institute of Slovenia. The conference ended with a fruitful discussion.