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• IPMWORKS demos IPM impact to MEPs
  

  The IPMWORKS H2020 project has staged a four-day exhibition at the European Parliament (EP) in Strasbourg to demonstrate the impact of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) on pest control to MEPs and the European Union Agricultural Commissioner. Entitled ‘Towards a Europe without pesticides within the framework of the European Green Deal and the reform of the SUD/SUR directive’, the event was supported by MEP Claude Gruffat (Greens, France).

• IPM Decisions updates platform
  

  The IPM Decisions project has updated its online platform and now offers 26 Decision Support Systems (DSS) for Integrated Pest Management (IPM). In addition, the platform offers access to a further 17 DSS through links to developers’ websites.

• Agroecology Europe Forum: Save the date!
  

  Agroecology Europe is to hold its 2023 Forum from November 16 to 18 in Hungary. The three-day in-person event will bring together people “from all over Europe and beyond to meet in dialogue and discuss some of the most pressing issues and present solutions for today’s food systems”.

• ICBPSA23: Save the date!
  

  This year’s International Conference on BioProtection for Sustainable Agriculture (ICBPSA23) is scheduled for July 26 to 28 in Can Tho, Vietnam. Organised by five Vietnamese universities and CIRAD, France’s agricultural research and cooperation organisation working on sustainable development, the three day event will comprise of one day of plenary sessions, one day of parallel sessions and one day of field visits.

• Video contest: Sustainable crop production
  

  Budding video makers are being invited to produce a film of up to 3 minutes describing what sustainable crop production means to them. Open to all, the ERA-Net SusCrop video competition is offering a €1,000 top prize in four categories, with second and third place prizes of €300 and €200 respectively.

• Download and share the newsletter
  

  December’s ENDURE News can now be downloaded from the website, so please feel free to share it with your colleagues. The newsletter includes news from ACTA’s worldwide tour to promote the use of Integrated Pest Management in France and its overseas departments and territories.

• Fungi for sustainable production
  

  Agroscope, ENDURE’s Swiss partner, has shared the findings of a pan-European study detailing the adverse effect plant protection products have on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), reducing their ability to supply plants with phosphorus via their roots.

• Resistant vine team scoops award
  

  A team working on resistant vines at France’s National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE) has received the Science with an Impact award at the organisation’s annual Lauriers prizes, in which winners are selected by an international jury.

• IWMPRAISE: Newsletter and resources
  

  Although the IWMPRAISE project has now officially ended, it leaves behind an extensive selection of resources for all those interested in Integrated Weed Management (IWM). As the project’s final external newsletter makes clear, these include but are not limited to an IWM tool, tool sheets offering complementary information to the IWM tool, how-to inspiration sheets, e-learning modules, IWM games and scientific publications.

• Events: Get organised for 2023!
  

  Next year’s events calendar is filling up nicely, with some conference organisers opting to hold hybrid live and virtual events to attract wider audiences. These include the Association of Applied Biologists’ event focusing on long-term experiments, which is being hosted by Rothamsted Research in the UK from June 20 to 22 2023, and the 8th edition of the Global Conference on Plant Science and Molecular Biology (GPMB 2023), which is being held in Valencia, Spain and virtually next September.