Montpellier, France
May 28, 2009
Source:
CIRAD
 ENDURE, the European
Network for the Durable Exploitation of Crop Protection
Strategies, this month launches its new website, offering
users quick and easy access to the information they require.
The site has been built with the needs of ENDURE’s key target
groups in mind. From the
home page, users can choose to browse through more than 100
pages of information or go straight to pages that have been
selected as specially relevant for them.
The site has new pages offering information specially selected
for: Scientists, Advisers and extension services, Policy makers,
Students, Partners outside Europe, Journalists and the General
public. Visiting these pages provides users with a selection of
the most relevant pages.
The new home page also offers direct access to some key ENDURE
tools which will come online in the coming weeks, including the
ENDURE Information Centre - a central point of reference for
extending expert knowledge, recommendations and advice for
extension services, advisers and researchers.
Direct access is also available to ENDURE’s 2008 International
Conference, where proceedings can be consulted online, an area
dedicated to mobility and job opportunities, and this year’s
Summer School, which is being held in June and will focus on
‘Modelling approaches to support integrated pest management
(IPM)’.
ENDURE’s website was first launched alongside the creation of
the Network of Excellence in 2007. Since January 2009 it has
been supported by the publication of bi-monthly electronic
newsletters. Subscription to the newsletters can be made online.
Since the launch more than 32,000 people have visited the site,
accounting for more than 130,000 page views. The site was
created and is run by CIRAD (the French Agricultural Research
Centre for International Development), in collaboration with a
communication team made up of members from most of ENDURE’s 18
partners.
For further information, please contact ENDURE web editor
Andrew Lewer or local
contact.
ENDURE is a Network of Excellence (NoE) with two key
objectives: restructuring European research and development for
the implementation of integrated pest management (IPM)
strategies for agriculture across the European Union, and
establishing ENDURE as a world leader in the development and
implementation of sustainable pest control strategies through:
• Building a lasting crop protection research community
• Providing end-users with a broader range of short-term
solutions
• Developing a holistic approach to sustainable pest management
• Taking stock of and informing plant protection policy changes.
Eighteen organisations in 10 European countries are committed to
ENDURE for four years (2007-2010), with financial support from
the European Union’s Sixth Framework Programme, priority 5: Food
Quality and Safety.
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