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• New Advisers: Learning materials online
  

  The New Advisers project held its closing meeting in Budapest in September and leaves behind useful findings and a wealth of learning materials for farm advisers. ENDURE is making sure that the outputs of this interesting two-year project are made widely available.

• Cropping system co-design guide now available
  

  The first STEPHY Guide on co-designing cropping systems less reliant on pesticides is now available in English. The Guide introduces a four-step learning process for co-designing alternative low-input cropping systems and can be used with advisers, farmers, R&D engineers, local stakeholders, researchers, trainers and students.

• Co-innovation workshop: Learning from case studies
  

  More than 40 people from 16 different countries, including researchers, advisers and those involved in innovation support for a more sustainable agriculture, attended ENDURE's European workshop on co-innovation.

• Using cultivar mixtures to manage diseases
  

  ENDURE researchers have used sophisticated modelling techniques to demonstrate how mixing different cultivars of the same crop species can be a useful tactic in managing multiple diseases, writes Natalia Sapoukhina (pictured right).

• Co-innovation seminar: Consult the presentations
  

  Some 40 participants from 11 different countries attended a seminar dedicated to the theoretical aspects of co-innovation as ENDURE partners, in collaboration with MTT of Finland, work towards a European workshop on co-innovation being held in Brussels on November 27 and 28.

• Invitation: Co-innovation workshop
  

  To all those interested in the practice of co-innovation in the context of Integrated Pest Management (IPM): Are you working on crop protection in practice, with farmers, advisers, and other stakeholders? Are you looking for inspiration on how to deal with the challenges of a more participatory approach? If yes, you may be interested in participating in the European workshop on co-innovation being held on November 27 and 28 in Brussels, writes Frank Wijnands, on behalf of the organising committee.

• Reaping the benefits of mobility
  

  ENDURE gambled on its Mobility Programme, running from 2007 to 2010, as a key element in strengthening the capacity and competitiveness of crop protection research in Europe as it provided participants with the opportunity for the cross-fertilisation of ideas, experiences and techniques.

• Integrating agronomic, social and economic issues
  

  An innovative pan-European study on the sustainability of traditional and innovative Integrated Pest Managment (IPM) maize-based cropping systems has recently been completed and selected as the European Journal of Agronomy's 'paper of the month'.

• International workshop on modelling platforms
  

  France's INRA/CIRAD IPM network, in conjunction with the key-action MODEL of the INRA's metaprogramme SMACH (Sustainable MAnagement of Crop Health), the European Research Group ENDURE, the European project PURE, and the 'Modelling for Agriculture' Mixed Technology Network, is organising an international workshop on modelling platforms for the sustainable management of crop health. The workshop is being held in Paris on November 29, 2013.

• Positions available: Modelling and agronomist
  

  The University of Western Australia (UWA) is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic researcher to conduct modelling research on specific questions related to plant pathology in grain crops, while France's Agrosyst project is looking for an agronomist to assess the needs of users of a computer information system on cropping systems.