Our SPRINT partner - Radboud University Medical Center - has opened up an interesting vacancy for a motivated Ph.D. candidate!

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Do you have a MSc in chemistry, biomedical sciences, environmental sciences or comparable ‘life or natural science’ field with an interest in kinetic modeling in the context of pharmacology and toxicology studies and risk assessment. Are you interested in contribute to the development of pesticide exposure estimates in humans and farm animals by developing and applying physiology-based biokinetic (PBK) models? Then don't hesitate any longer and apply for this PhD position.

For more information please click here and visit the website of RadboudUMC

The coordination team always has something to do with such a big consortium as SPRINT. After a successful meeting in Ljubljana, it is already time to start thinking about our third plenary meeting. In consultation with our partners in Croatia, we will host the 2022 meeting there. For everyone involved in SPRINT as a consortium member: Save the date: 12-16 Sept. 2022! 


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During our recent plenary meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, we met with Toni Kukenberger, an organic dairy farmer. In this video, he explains how his farm became organic and transitioned away from pesticide reliance. He provides advice for other farmers considering doing the same and shares insights about his farming enterprise which produces milk, cheese and yoghurt.

 

The SPRINT consortium has a new paper published in PLOS ONE. Here they describe in detail the study protocol that has been used for the collection of the samples in WP2 (Field Campaign) adressing all sampling matrixes and sampling protocols. Click for the full article on the title below!

"Collection of human and environmental data on pesticide use in Europe and Argentina: Field study protocol for the SPRINT project"


Visualization of the Case Study Sites across Europe and Argentina
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Blue on the map = Northern Europe, Green = Central Europe, Red = Southern Europe. 
Italian and French CSS have no livestock. CSS 2 (Portugal) and CSS 9 (Netherlands) are
reference CSS for modelling. At these reference locations, additional water, sediment 
and air samples will be collected