Dear partners, colleagues and interested parties,

the Corona pandemic is currently taking the world's breath away and forcing us all to act flexibly. Below we would like to inform you about the current state of our COA project and what measures we are taking to deal with the situation:

• Our project office is fully functional. All team members work from home office and are available by email and phone during normal working hours.
• First of all we have stopped all physical activities and postponed, in particular, the Organic Seed Round Table, which was planned for April 2020. We will inform you once a new date has been projected.
• Meanwhile we work closely with our partners and experts and use the time to prepare future activities and provide as much information material as possible.
• We are continuing to go straight ahead with the Knowledge Platform project and are still convinced that we can launch it by June this year.

We wish all of you good health and thank you for the fruitful cooperation under this exceptional circumstances!

On behalf of the COA project team

Elisabeth Rüegg