Summer School RATION project – 25-29 May, 2026, Greece
RATION is organizing a summer school in Larissa, Greece on the 25 to 29th of May, 2026. The summer school offers training on novel risk assessment approaches that are available and will benchmark risk assessment of low-risk pesticides in the next 20 years while it will further provide hands-on training on tools developed in the frame of the project RATION to support risk assessment of microbial and ds-RNA pesticides. There is not registration fee. The attendees will have to cover their own travel and accomodation costs. The program of the School and further details could be found in the flyer attached.
Continue ReadingRATION Training Workshop on the Whole Genome Sequencing Tool
The first training workshop of RATION on the Whole Genome Sequencing toll developed by our researchers was held in Paris with the participation of 26 trainees. Joao Saraiva, Gunter Brader, Sotirios Vasileiadis, Valerian Lupo and Stavroula Makri along with Dimitrios Karpouzas, coordinator of RATION, presented the tool, its inputs and outputs, its capacities and how the results could be interpreted in a risk assessment context. The tool can be reached and used in the following https://agrostis.gr/ration-ra-gui
Continue ReadingFirst RATION Training Event on Whole Genome Sequencing of Microbials – 23 February 2026, Paris, France
RATION announces the launch of the first training workshop on the Whole Genome Sequencing tool developed for microbial pesticides. The tool will provide novel directions and outputs that are directly relevant for the risk assessment of microbial pesticides based on bacteria and fungi. The workshop will be organized in person in Paris on Monday 23rd of February 2026. There is a limited number of places (maximum 40) so you will need to register to secure a position. The agend of the workshop can be found below.
Continue ReadingThe 3rd Annual Meeting of RATION in Heraklion, Crete 2025
The 3rd Annual Meeting of the RATION project was held in Heraklion, Crete at 21-23rd of October in the premises of Foundation of Research and Technology. The partners discussed all new findings and how these will fit into the new Risk Assessment scheme for microbials, botanicals, semiochemicals and ds-RNA pesticides that RATION members are working on
Continue ReadingPresentation of RATION in the Joint International Conference of Mikrobiokosomos & CEESME
Stavroula Makri and Panagiotis Vletsos, two researchers in RATION, presented RATION results in the Joint International Conference of Mikrobiokosmos & CEESME held in Thessaloniki, Greee on the 22-24th of September. The Conference was attended by 250 scientists.
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RATION launches new application
A new application of RATION called “Biopesticides” is available and can be found and downloaded from the Google Play store. The application provides an on-line updated view of the list of biopesticides, including those categorized as low-risk, that are registered and used in the member states.
Continue ReadingThe fifth RATION newsletter is out!
We are pleased to announce that the fifth RATION newsletter has been issued.
Read all about the project’s latest news and events.
RATION meets farmers in Portugal
As a follow-up to our initial outreach, this second engagement with Portuguese farmers’ associations aimed to expand RATION’s stakeholders’ forum in the Iberian Peninsula.
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