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The first Policy Brief of RATION is out
The first Policy Brief of RATION provides first insights about the regulation of plant protection products based on new microbial solutions like bacteriophages, protists and microbial consortia.
Presentation of RATION in the Clustering Workshop “Rationale Use of Pesticides
The coordinator of RATION Prof. D. Karpouzas presented RATION and highlights of the progress in the EU projects clustering workshop “Rationale Use of Pesticides” organized on Monday 22 April 2024 as a satelite event of the Kickoff meeting of the EU project NextGenBiopest held in FORTH, Herakleion, Crete.
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2nd E-newsletter of RATION
The second e-newsletter of RATION was issued. Have a look on the activities of RATION so far and its prime goals).
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The first e-newsletter of RATION was issued. Have a look on the activities of RATION so far and its prime goals).
Continue ReadingΝew Position in Environmental Microbiology and Risk Assessment in RATION, University of Thessaly
RATION – Risk Assessment Innovation of Low-Risk Pesticides
Postdoc position in environmental microbiology and risk assessment
University of Thessaly is offering a Postdoc position in environmental microbiology and risk assessment with expected commencement November 2023 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is offered in the frame of the project RATION, a Horizon Europe project. RATION is a 4-year project started at 1.11.2022 and involves 22 partners.
Presentation of RATION in the XII European Congress of Entomology
The Coordinator of RATION Prof. Karpouzas presented RATION and its main goals and progress in the XII European Congress of Entomology which was held in Crete on the 16-20 October 2023. The title of his talk was Setting the scene for a scientifically sound risk assessment of low-risk pesticides.
The 2023 Annual Meeting of RATION was held in Larissa, Greece at 27-29 September 2023
More than 35 scientists representing the different partners of RATION met in the first in person meeting in the Hotel Dionysos, Larissa, Greece. The partners had the chance to discuss the progress made so far and the follow up steps while separate meetings per Working Package were also organized to discuss specific details of the work. The members of the Advisory Board that were present in the meeting Anne Steenbergh (Ctgb), Jacobjin van Etten (Ctgb), Magdalini Sachana (OECD) and Rachel Sharp (EFSA, remotely).
Challenges for Implementing the EU Farm-to-Fork Strategy – Pests, Plants, and Profits – Inter-model Cooperation Between the BrightSpace, GeneBEcon,...
Pre-Congress Workshop of the EAAE Congress, 29th August 2023
The EU Farm to Fork Strategy (F2F) aims to speed up the transition to a sustainable food system. The F2F Strategy targets a 50% reduction in the overall use and risk of chemical pesticides and the use of more hazardous pesticides by 50%, which should be achieved by 2030. The three EU Horizon-funded projects BrightSpace, GeneBEcon, and RATION presented their work and cooperation in economic modelling, tackling issues related to the Farm to Fork Strategy.
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