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• Save the date! 2019 Systems Summer School
  

  ENDURE and its partners are organising an International Summer School for 2019. Running from June 23 to 28 2019 in Volterra, Italy, it will address ‘Methodological Approaches to Systems Experiments’ and is designed for researchers, engineers and PhD students involved in the design, monitoring and exploitation of systems experiments.

• UPDATED! Links to other projects and organisations
  

  In the table below you can find a selection of European projects which you may find interesting. While the majority of these projects are not 'ENDURE-endorsed', we hope that by bringing together more than 50 European projects in one easy to use table we are helping the international Integrated Pest Management community to gain an insight into European agricultural research.

• Diversification cluster to boost impact
  

  Six of the European Commission’s H2020 projects have joined forces in a ‘crop diversification cluster’ which will involve sharing strategies and tools with the aim of boosting the impact of their research into various ways of improving the economic and environmental sustainability of European agriculture.

• INRA seeks scientific officer for DiverIMPACTS
  

  INRA’s Eco-Innov unit, based near Paris, France, is seeking a scientific officer to work on the Horizon 2020 DiverIMPACTS project (Diversification through rotation, intercropping, multiple cropping, promoted with actors and value-chains towards sustainability). The three-year position will run from 1 November, 2018.

• Gaining an insight into IWM experiments
  

  More than 100 farmers, technicians and agronomists have been given an insight into Integrated Weed Management (IWM) through on open day held at Veneto Agricoltura’s Vallevecchia experimental farm in Italy. Visitors were able to witness the farm’s ongoing experimental work as part of IWMPRAISE (Integrated Weed Management: PRActical Implementation and Solutions for Europe), Europe’s first Horizon 2020 project dedicated solely to weed management.

• TRUE interviews now online
  

  There is a chance to catch up with some of the case study leaders in the TRUE project (‘TRansition paths to sUstainable legume based systems in Europe’) through video interviews recorded during a meeting of the Atlantic Legume Innovation Network held earlier this year.

• DiverIMPACTS: Conference and interview
  

  A major European conference on crop diversification is scheduled for September 18 to 21, 2019. Organised by DiverIMPACTS (Diversification through Rotation, Intercropping, Multiple Cropping, Promoted with Actors and value-Chains towards Sustainability) and other projects targeting crop diversification, it will be held in Budapest, Hungary.

• James Hutton Institute welcomes vertical farm
  

  One of the world’s most advanced indoor farming facilities has opened at the Dundee site of ENDURE’s Scottish partner, the James Hutton Institute. The facility will be used to showcase Intelligent Growth Solutions’ (IGS) power and communications technologies which are designed to reduce the barriers to vertical farming.

• Models provide late blight insights
  

  Wageningen University & Research, ENDURE’s Dutch partner, has reported on the success of social-ecological modelling of potato late blight in providing important insights for farmers, breeders, potato traders, retailers and governments. In particular, this approach has demonstrated the important role resistant varieties can play in disease control providing there is adequate cooperation between all stakeholders in the potato sector.

• Seeking a head start to combat wheat rust
  

  A new European project has been launched to help tackle the increased threat to wheat crops from invasive races of rust. In particular, RustWatch, coordinated by ENDURE partner Aarhus University, will provide a new early warning system to boost preparedness and resilience to new invasive wheat rust races.