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INSECT DOCTORS · A joint doctoral program to educate tomorrow’s insect pathologists: Solving disease problems in the upcoming insect rearing industry.

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

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2019-11-01 → 2024-10-31
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4 201 845 €
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9
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MSCA-ITN

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Накратко на български

Патогените по насекомите, като бактерии и вируси при щурците, се изучават, за да се разбере как влияят на масовото им отглеждане. Това е важно, за да се намалят आर्थिकните загуби и да се подобрят методите за производство на протеини и опрашване.

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A joint doctoral program to educate tomorrow’s insect pathologists: Solving disease problems in the upcoming insect rearing industry.

Mass production of insects is a core activity to address the global demand for animal proteins for food and feed, one of the top societal and environmental priorities in Europe and worldwide. Mass-reared insects are also crucial for pollination, fishery, biocontrol of pest insects, animal and human disease prevention, and organic waste debris conversion. Insect farming generally occurs under high density monoculture conditions in specialised insect rearing facilities. In such “insect factories” insect pathogens easily emerge, leading to extensive economic losses for the companies involved. The number of European insect producers has considerably increased over recent years, as has the scale at which they produce insects. However, the success of these companies is heavily relying on healthy insects. To be sustainable and cost-effective insect production urgently needs to become more resilient to a large range of pathogens. However, at the start of the INSECT DOCTORS programme, knowledge on the pathogens that threaten mass-reared was very scarce. Furthermore, a shortage of sufficiently qualified people, highly knowledgeable in the breadth of disciplines within insect pathology (e.g. bacteriology, virology, mycology), was apparent. The INSECT DOCTORS double-degree network was initiated to overcome the gaps in knowledge described above and to train a new generation of insect pathologists with relevant skills and expertise to benefit the insect mass rearing industry. The research performed in INSECT DOCTORS aimed to increase our understanding of insect pathogens and how and under which circumstances they impact mass-reared insects. Furthermore, we aimed to develop improved rearing methods to reduce the risk of disease outbreaks in a variety of produced insects (e.g. crickets, mealworms, wax moths, fruit flies), as well as the tools to diagnose insect pathogens in commercial insect rearing settings.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Mass rearing of insects is a rapidly expanding industry due to improved mechanisation and increasing interest in the use of insects for a variety of purposes, such as sterile insect techniques, food and feed, waste management, and biocontrol of insect pest species. However, expertise is urgently needed to address emerging problems with infectious disease outbreaks in mass reared insects. Therefore, we propose the INSECT DOCTORS joint doctoral programme to build a durable European framework to educate experts in insect pathology in order to overcome the shortage in properly educated experts in Europe, and beyond. The research of INSECT DOCTORS will expand our understanding of emerging pathogens and will provide necessary tools for disease management in industrial insect rearing. The complementary expertise of the participating institutes and companies leads to an ambitious and exciting programme, providing interdisciplinary training and research in pertinent areas of insect pathology (bacteriology, mycology, virology) and entomology (immunology, physiology). In an overarching training program, novel advanced courses will provide students with technical, scientific and transferable skills. This interdisciplinary approach, crucial to provide insight in the complexity of insect-microbe interactions in a range of farmed insects, can only be achieved by joining forces between European universities. Furthermore, this joint doctoral programme aims to build durable partnerships for doctoral training in insect pathology, thereby overcoming national and interdisciplinary boundaries in doctoral research. By requiring equal excellence from all participants in this training programme we will contribute to high level PhD education across Europe. In short: INSECT DOCTORS will provide the durable framework, the people, the scientific knowledge and the tools to assist the upcoming insect industry to diagnose and mitigate infectious diseases in their mass reared insects cultures.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз