Last week, Brussels received the annual EU Agri-Food Days, and our coordinator, Andrea Ficke, was present to represent the project. Andrea joined stakeholders, civil society, consumers, lobby groups, policymakers, and researchers in the agri-food sector to discuss current trends, innovations, and digital technologies that are shaping European agriculture of today and tomorrow...

Jürgen Gross from the Julius Kühn-Institut appeared on the German talk show Planet Wissen in an episode titled "Wie gefährlich sind invasive Insektenarten?" (How dangerous are invasive insect species?), to discuss the challenges of invasive species and present insights from the PurPest project. A segment specifically focused on the PurPest project is featured starting at...

Several PurPest consortium members recently published a review paper, "The use of volatile organic compounds in preventing and managing invasive plant pests and pathogens," in Frontiers in Horticulture.

This review analyzes the Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) emissions in five invasive model species: three insects, Halyomorpha halys, Spodoptera frugiperda, Helicoverpa armigera, a...

The PurPest YouTube channel was officially launched yesterday. The channel will be updated regularly with content about the pests and pathogens we are studying and the technology we are developing.

In our first video, Andrea Ficke presents the PurPest concept and the need for this technology to detect economically important pests and pathogens impairing food...

On the 7^th of November 2024, the PurPest workpackage 6 team from INIAV, Andrea Ficke and Birgitte Henriksen from NIBIO, met virtually to discuss PurPest’s ongoing communication activities and strategies to disseminate the project's results moving forward.

On October 24^th, the second PurPest Stakeholder meeting took place with representatives from Plant Health Inspection Services, the pinewood forestry sector, the European Plant Protection Organization, Nursery associations, sensor and software developers, and the National Plant Protection Organizations. The latest progress of the project was discussed, focusing on the first version of...

Our PurPest EU partner Martin Pettersson from NIBIO Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research is collecting volatile organic compounds from Phytophthora-infected larch, using the headspace collector designed by Julius Kühn-Institut and FLUSYS GmbH.

On October 10, 2024, Stelios Kartakis presented his research on Migration Extent and Potential Economic Impact of the Fall Armyworm in Europe at the Wageningen School of Social Sciences, Netherlands. His PhD progress was approved by two reviewers: Monique Mourits from the Business Economics Group and Bob Douma from the Centre for Crop Systems Analysis, both at Wageningen University...

PurPest is now featured on the EU CAP Network website, under the EPIP-AGRI project database. You can now find all the relevant information about the project here.