INIAV partners were present at the European Researchers' Night, a Europe-wide public event displaying science's diversity and its impact on citizens' daily lives. The event took place on September 27^th and the PurPest concept was presented in a fun and inspiring way.

On September 18th, our partners Ana Fundurulić and Maria João Camacho from INIAV made an online presentation at WebINIAV, a cycle of internal webinars for INIAV researchers, where PurPest was presented under the theme “Innovative Sensor Technologies for Sustainable Crop Protection: Advances in the Field of Nematode Detection”. 

Our partner Usman Yaqoob, from the University of Warwick, presented a poster at the EuroSensors XXXVI, which took place from 1-4 September 2024.

This conference was organized by the University of Debrecen (UD), Faculty of Science and Technology and the Institute of Technical Physics and Materials Science, Centre for Energy Research (HUN-REN CER MFA) at the campus of UD...

Ted Turlings, our partner from Université de Neuchâtel plans to fit practical and affordable sensors for agricultural robots that patrol crops. These robots will use software to report issues to farm managers and implement immediate treatments, reducing pesticide use to only where and when needed.

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Our partenrs from JKI and UNIPD, Ali Karimi and Riccardo Favaro attended the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Chemical Ecology, which took place from 14-18 July 2024, at the Czech University of Life Science in Prague, Czech Republic.

The PurPest concept was presented at the 1^st workshop of the 2^nd working group in the Cost Action 'European Network In CHemical Ecology: translating the language of life into sustainability' (E-NICHE, CA 22102) in Prague. Andrea Ficke showed some of the first results and challenges of PurPest after discussing a similiar approach used in detecting leaf blotch diseases in wheat.

On July 11^th and 12^th of 2024, the third general PurPest meeting took place in Brno, in a hybrid format, and was an opportunity for all members to come together and discuss the progress that was made in the different work packages, and share the outputs that were produced.

Participants also had the chance to visit the wonderful Mendel’s University and see the Phytophthora...

On July 5^th, 2024, a PurPest meeting of the Portuguese partners took place at HERCULES Laboratory, in Évora, where INIAV, the University of Évora and DGAV teams discussed results obtained so far on volatile profiles of the pinewood nematode.

Luís Bonifácio, from INIAV, attended the XXVI IUFRO World Congress, gave a talk and presented a poster in the Pine Wilt Disease-dedicated session, and both included PURPEST project results. The event took place in Stockholm, Sweden, between the 23^rd to the 29^th of June, 2024.