On Tuesday 24 January, there was an Official Hearing of the Save Bees and Farmer European Citizens Initiative at the European Parliament. Our project leader Violette Geissen, was also present to speach during the hearing about the first SPRINT results. "Pesticide residues are omni-present in ecosystems and humans. Most of the residues are hazardous. What is the real risk of being exposed to mixtures of high numbers of pesticides? Who has the answer to this? Nobody."

The movie below will show an impression of the hearing. (Violette is seen from 3:20 onwards)



For the full press release please visit the website of PAN-Europe.

We would like to wish you all a happy and healthy 2023!! This year SPRINT will focus on wrapping up all results from the field campaign in 2021 (WP2) and moving forward with lab experiments. Here the main concentrations and chemical solutions will be tested in different settings. For instance a rat model and different organoids (tiny, self-organized three-dimensional tissue cultures that are derived from stem cells). Next we would like to dive deeper in posibilities for sustrainable transition. In short, we will be busy again this year. 

The year 2023 started very well, two SPRINT publications were accepted and published. We reached a nice milestone of 20 SPRINT papers  already and hope many interesting papers resulting from the field campaign will follow. You can find all articles/papers under the tab resources - publications, or by clicking on the picture! 

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Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of  pesticide mixtures on terrestrial and aquatic ecosystem health? Then this might be an oppurtunity for you! 

Under the scope of the European Project – SPRINT (https://sprint-h2020.eu/ ), the main objective is to assess the effects of PPP mixtures on the ecosystem health. Based on more realistic scenarios, the specific objectives of this proposal are: (i) to evaluate the ecotoxicological effects of PPP mixtures found in distinct crop systems across Europe on native terrestrial and aquatic species; (ii) to assess the extent to which the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems retain their natural function and so have the capacity to deliver a range of services. 

The PhD position will be in The Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM) - Portugal

Have you noticed the "UPCOMING EVENTS" in the right side bar? Here we try to highlight events that are organized by SPRINT or related to the SPRINT topic. Recently new symposia and conferences were added. Check it out to see if there is something interesting for you. 

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