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• Expert group seeks to speed IPM in Europe
  

  ENDURE assistant coordinator Marco Barzman (INRA, France), pictured right, and Silke Dachbrodt-Saaydeh (Julius Kuehn Institute (JKI), Germany) took part in the first meeting of the European Commission’s expert group on the Thematic Strategy on the sustainable use of pesticides in Brussels, Belgium, in June.

• New: consult scientific papers online
  

  A selection of scientific papers written by researchers from the ENDURE Network of Excellence can now be accessed online through the website.

• ENDURE tells advisers: come and join us!
  

  Come and join us, is the clear message being delivered to agricultural advisers and other specialists across Europe as ENDURE launches the ENDURE Network of Advisers (ENA).

• Style and substance at Cereals 2009
  

  ENDURE’s Information Centre team had lots to reveal at the giant Cereals 2009 exhibition, not least the new ENDURE ‘uniform’, which helped them stand out from the 26,000-strong crowd at June’s event in Cambridgeshire, England!

• Welcome to the new ENDURE website
  

  As you may have noticed, we have now launched the new ENDURE website, making it quicker and easier for you to find the information you need!

• Easing the way for biological controls
  

  For a pest control technique that is currently enjoying strong growth, biological control of pests has a long history. In fact, as far back as the late 1800s it proved a success when citrus growers in California, USA, introduced a predatory insect, the vedalia beetle, and a parasitoid fly from Australia to control Icerya purchasi, the cottony cushion scale, that was devastating their crops.

• DSS: helping farmers make smart decisions
  

  Everyone knows farming can be a difficult and complex job. Farmers have to juggle so many factors in their decision making: fluctuations in the price of inputs, in crop prices and in the weather conditions all have to be taken into account. Decision support systems (DSS) are designed to alleviate some of the stress, making it easier to judge when and with what to treat crops to achieve a profitable harvest, and hold out the prospect of significantly reducing pesticide use.

• Wageningen to host Annual Meeting
  

  ENDURE's Netherlands partner, Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), is to host the Network of Excellence's Annual Meeting in October this year.

• PhD Summer School programme now online
  

  Lecturers from the USA, Denmark, France and The Netherlands have been lined up for June’s second ENDURE PhD Summer School, which will take place in Volterra, Italy.

• Summer school tackles bioactive natural compounds
  

  ENDURE partner Aarhus University is joint organiser of the Research School of Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology (RECETO) PhD summer school being held on the university's Flakkebjerg campus, 100km south-west of Copenhagen, in July. Lecturers include ENDURE Executive Committee member Per Kudsk (pictured right) from Aarhus University.