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• AgriSpin: Insights into innovation
  

  The AgriSpin project (Space for Innovation in Agriculture) has now been completed, with a closing conference on the Greek island of Crete providing participants with the opportunity to gain insights into methods for creating space for innovation.

• EuroBlight updates efficacy tables
  

  Ahead of the 2018 field season, EuroBlight, the European network of scientists and other specialists working on potato early and late blight, has updated its fungicide efficacy tables for control of these diseases.

• IPM toolboxes for key crops
  

  The James Hutton Institute (JHI), ENDURE’s Scottish partner, has launched online Integrated Pest Management (IPM) toolboxes for three of the country’s most important crops. The crop-specific toolboxes are accessible via the Institute’s IPM portal, which examines a series of IPM topics, such as biocontrol, landscape management and pest and pathogen detection and monitoring.

• Conference to mark 175 years
  

  The UK’s Rothamsted Research celebrates its 175th anniversary in 2018 and will be marking the occasion with a three-day conference dedicated to exploring the role of classical and other long-term experiments in agricultural science.

• Updated! C-IPM green light for nine projects
  

  The ERA-net C-IPM (Coordinated Integrated Pest Management in Europe) has given the green light to nine new research projects following its second call for proposals in 2016.

• Agroecological Crop Protection training course
  

  Drawing on the experience and teaching resources of ENDURE, a five-day training course on Agroecological Crop Protection (ACP) for advanced level students, researchers and agricultural advisers is to be staged early next year. The closing date for applications is November 20, 2017.

• BIOCOMES: 'Cooperation is key'
  

  The latest newsletter from the BIOCOMES project includes an interesting interview with Philippe Nicot, the recently re-elected president of the West Palearctic Regional Section of the International Organisation for Biological Control (IOBC), underlining the importance of cooperation between Integrated Pest Management (IPM) and biocontrol researchers and all other actors in the production chain.

• New dates for events calendar
  

  Ten new events have been added to ENDURE’s event calendar, including a trio of conferences concentrating on biocontrol. These include March 2018’s Biocontrol Africa, which is being staged in Nairobi, Kenya, and two new events, the First International Congress of Biological Control (ICBC-1) in Beijing, China, and the 1st International Conference on Biological Control, Bengaluru, India.

• INRA: An ‘intense’ 2016
  

  INRA, France’s National Institute for Agricultural Research, has hailed 2016 as an ‘intense’ year, notable for the celebration of the organisation’s 70th anniversary, a record number of scientific publications and co-publications with partners around the world, the appointment of a new president and a focus on 2025, with the adoption of a 10-year strategic plan.

• Millions to kick-start Smart Crop Protection
  

  The UK’s Rothamsted Research has secured around £6.3 million (€6.8 million) of government funding to kick-start its new five-year strategic programme. Called Smart Crop Protection (SCP), the ENDURE partner's programme is focused on the sustainable control of pests, pathogens and weeds.