Back in November, the heads of 14 ENDURE partner institutions pledged to pool resources to “ensure the sustainability of crop protection in Europe through scientific excellence, interdisciplinary research, and international partnership”, writes Antoine Messéan, ENDURE Coordinator.
It has been six months since Pierre Ricci passed on to me the coordination of ENDURE. Six months since ENDURE as a self-funded network has gone into operation. Naturally, the question in everyone’s mind since then is whether ENDURE will make good on its promise to continue as a productive network even in the absence of its FP7 Network of Excellence grant.
It is surely a challenge to have 14 research, extension and higher education institutes continue to invest in a network where both decisions and benefits are shared. The outcome is still open, but if abundance of new proposals is any indication of success, we are doing very well. Indeed, beyond updating existing ENDURE tools, there are a number of new and original initiatives in the pipeline:
These examples show that we are well on our way to becoming a platform for the launch of new European and international initiatives and that we can become significant players in crop protection when it comes to joint work, making resources more widely available, and facilitating cross-national exchange between researchers, advisers, policy advisers, and programme funders.
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