C-IPM has pre-announced its second call for applications (pre-proposals) for transnational research in integrated pest management in Europe.

A workshop regarding the benefits of demonstration farms will be held in Bonn, Germany, in May 2016.

The results of the first C-IPM call proposals are now ready: seven projects have been selected.

Registration for the workshop is by invitation only.

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.

An EU session at the recent Ecophyto colloquium in Paris emphasized the importance of coordinating European IPM research.

In the first C-IPM call, thirteen full proposals on integrated pest management have been selected to continue into the final round of evaluation. The full proposals will be evaluated by an expert panel.