Join us at the Liannis Amphitheater in the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Crete, for a comprehensive workshop organized within the framework of MicroBioPest and other EU-funded projects. This workshop will address various aspects of pesticide use and management in the context of the EU Green Deal and climate change. Starting at 10:45, John Vontas from FORTH will introduce the workshop's objectives. The morning sessions will feature presentations on evidence-based rational use of pesticides and biologicals in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) by Emmanouil Roditakis and Tolis Pekas, biological control of invasive pests in Mediterranean fruit crops by Alejandro Tena Barreda, and an overview of the EPPO Database on Pesticide Resistance Cases by Anastasia Tsagkarakou. In the afternoon, Ken Narva from GreenLight Biosciences will discuss RNA-based pesticides, and Ema Lazorcakova from the Slovak University of Agriculture will talk about the social acceptability of new genomic techniques for plant production and crop protection. The workshop will continue with clustering activities involving various EU research projects, featuring presentations by Nikolaos Papadopoulos on in-silico boosted pest prevention, Dimitrios Karpouzas on risk assessment innovation for low-risk pesticides under the RATION project, and George Dimopoulos and Martyn Wood on microbial biopesticides under the MicroBioPest project. The event will conclude with a discussion and wrap-up session at 17:00.

The workshop’s agenda can be downloaded here.