ENDURE, European Network for the Durable Exploitation of Crop Protection Strategies, is a network of excellence (NoE) funded by the European Union under the Framework 6 programme.

University of Aarhus, Foulum, Denmark

Alghero, Sardinia, Italy

Italy's Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa (SSSUP) is set to launch the fifth year of its International Doctorate in Agrobiodiversity, a PhD programme run in collaboration with the Italian National Academy of Sciences and funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MiUR).

A new online social network for scientists has been launched by German company ResearchGATE GmbH.

Incorporating 13 different pests which can hit European winter wheat yields, the WheatPest simulation model is helping scientists predict crop losses

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Organised by the European Federation of Food Science and Technology, the 1st European Food Congress, entitled 'Food production - Nutrition - Healthy Consumers', will take place in the Cankarjev Dom conference centre in Ljubljana this November.

Lomé, Togo

Also incorporates the 1st Symposium of COMEC/PV under the banner of 'Management Of Insect Populations For Sustainable Agricultural Development In Africa'.

Lucerne, Switzerland

Presentation of the latest products and systems available for the biological control of pests, diseases and weeds and biological methods for plant health.

ENDURE has released details of its grant scheme which will allow scientists from INCO (International Cooperation Target Countries) to spend time at one of ENDURE?s participating research or university institutions.

ENDURE?s Case Studies aim to identify and assess solutions that will enable pesticide use to be optimised and reduced and when it comes to wheat, Danish experience is proving invaluable, reports Janne Hansen.

PhD students have until Friday July 18th to apply for a limited number of ENDURE mobility scholarships.

PhD students have until Friday, July 18, 2008, to apply for a limited number of ENDURE mobility scholarships.

The programme for the plenary sessions at ENDURE's first International Conference, Diversifying Crop Protection, which will be held in southern France this autumn, has now been been completed.

The line-up for ENDURE's first International Conference, Diversifying Crop Protection, is taking shape.

Swiss research organisation Agroscope Reckenholz-Tanikon (ART) is seeking a scientist to work on the ENDURE project.

The position will involve studying phytosanitary protection for maize and a more general evaluation of durable crop protection strategies.

Villiers-Saint-Christophe, Aisne, France

Organised by Arvalis, Institut du végétal

2008 is the United Nations International Year of the Potato (IYP).

In France, Arvalis is organising PotatoEurope 2008, a field exhibition for growers, under the PotatoEurope label. During this event, one of the workshops will be devoted to ENDURE's recent advances. A prototype of the future ENDURE Information Centre, containing information about sustainable potato crop protection management in Europe, will be on demonstration.

ENDURE participants: ACTA and INRA

Villiers-Saint-Christophe, Aisne, France

Organised by Arvalis, Institut du végétal

2008 is the United Nations International Year of the Potato (IYP).

Torino, Italy

ENDURE coordinator Pierre Ricci (INRA, France) will be participating in this event.