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• Insight into France’s training the trainers days
  

  For the second time in three years, ENDURE communication team leader Philippe Delval has hit the roads of France to conduct a series of special days dedicated to sharing the latest knowledge on alternative crop protection techniques with those responsible for providing the training required to obtain the obligatory certification needed to handle pesticides in the country.

• Neonicotinoids in the spotlight
  

  France has launched a €1.5 million call for projects to improve the emergence of neonicotinoid-free agriculture and explore innovative perspectives for crop production methods which avoid the use of these insecticides.

• Brexit: What direction for crop protection?
  

  While negotiations have only just begun on the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union, thoughts are turning to how British producers will protect their crops in the future and how the country’s plant protection product (PPP) regulations will change in response to Brexit.

• SMaCH projects focus on impact
  

  INRA, France’s National Institute for Agricultural Research, has unveiled the projects which will be launched as a result of this year’s SMaCH (Sustainable Management of Crop Health) call. The call was titled Impact, with the aim of encouraging projects which stimulate the impact of research results by encouraging their transfer to end users.

• Rothamsted sets out five-year vision
  

  ENDURE partner Rothamsted Research, the world’s oldest agricultural science research institute, has set out its ambitious vision for the next five years at a time of what it describes as unprecedented international uncertainty and diverse social, economic and environmental challenges.

• EUCLID reveals demonstration sites
  

  The EUCLID project (Europe-China Lever for Integrated Pest Management Demonstration) is now entering its second year, with work on testing new products and technologies getting underway at its range of demonstration sites this spring and summer.

• Experts produce IPM brassica brochure
  

  A new brochure concentrating on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in brassica crops and oilseed rape has been produced by experts from the European Innovation Partnership’s Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability (EIP-AGRI) focus group on these crops.

• Aarhus University seeks plant pathologist
  

  Aarhus University, one of ENDURE’s Danish partners, is seeking a post-doc researcher in plant pathology to join its tenure track programme. This programme offers highly qualified candidates a researcher position for six years with the prospect of performance-based advancement to a tenured senior researcher post.

• Three-pronged approach for UK black-grass
  

  UK experts have recommended a three-pronged approach for the sustainable management of black-grass, an increasingly herbicide-resistant weed which is a particular problem in autumn-sown cereal crops.

• AgriSpin to share innovation insights
  

  The closing conference of the AgriSpin project (Space for Innovation in Agriculture) takes place on July 3, 2017, on the Greek island of Crete. The project, coordinated by SEGES, one of ENDURE’s Danish partners, has been seeking to establish what makes innovation processes move forward and what blocks them.