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.

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.

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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