The C-IPM annual meeting in Rome homed in on several potentially interesting call topics, and proposed topics for future workshops. The meeting also included a communication workshop.

A joint biocontrol workshop co-organized by C-IPM, Ecophyto and IOBC will be held in Paris on 27-28 January 2016.

The EU’s new coordination facility for minor uses of pesticides aims to enable farmers to produce high quality crops by filling minor uses gaps through efficient collaboration to improve availability of chemical and non-chemical tools within an integrated pest management (IPM) framework.

The C-IPM work package regarding minor uses has identified and ranked the needs for IPM solutions for minor uses. This has resulted in a longlist of topics for the C-IPM’s first call.