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H2020Staff exchange2017–2023

IPM-4-Citrus · IPM-4-Citrus, Citrus desease Integrated Pest Management: from Research to Market

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2017-04-01 → 2023-01-31
EU contribution
€801,000
Participants
11
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

IPM-4-Citrus, Citrus desease Integrated Pest Management: from Research to Market

IPM-4-CITRUS aims to develop two new bio-pesticides active against citrus pests and scale them up from lab to market. It is considering the potential of 2 alternative endemic strains (Bt kurstaki BLB1 and LIP) to produce a biopesticide (as alternative to chemical treatments) and to protect citrus from 2 targeted pests (Phyllocnistic citrella, Prays citri). This project strengthen collaborations between academic and non-academic partners based in 3 European Member States (France, Germany and Italy), 2 Associated Countries (Turkey and Tunisia) and 1 Third Country (Lebanon), The project’s research and innovation activities are based on a multidisciplinary approach, which aims at understanding and sensitizing stakeholders about the health risk factors related to citrus pests and developing an alternative Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach based on biological control. In conjunction with validation through field tests, the project will pave the way for future commercial exploitation of these new biopesticide products by drawing up a feasibility study for future spin-off activities and/or new production lines in partner SMEs. This project will then give a competitive advantage to the consortium partners as well as Europe and enhance the chances of job creation. Staff secondments and inter-sector and international mobilities between complementary partners will represent a unique opportunity to optimize bioproduction processes and obtain high added-value bioproducts, while building up the partners’ skills and reinforcing the training of early-stage researchers through knowledge sharing and networking. The project will also adopt a concrete RRI (favouring public engagement, informal education).

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

IPM-4-Citrus aims to strengthen collaborations between academic and non-academic partners based in 3 European Member States (FR, GER, IT), 2 Associated Countries (Turkey and Tunisia) and 1 Third Country (Lebanon), in order to develop a new bio-pesticide active against citrus pests and scale it up from lab to market. The project’s research and innovation activities are based on a multidisciplinary approach, which aims at understanding and sensitising stakeholders about the health risk factors related to citrus pests and their treatment by chemical pesticides and developing an alternative Integrated Pest Management (IPM) approach based on biological control. Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) based bio pesticides occupy almost 97% of the world’s bio pesticide market and their use was estimated to exceed 30,000 tons. Despite this widespread use, the originality of Citrus-IPM is to focus on 2 promising, newly identified strains (Bt kurstaki BLB1 and LIP), which were shown to be more efficient than the commercial (Bt kurstaki HD1). In conjunction with validation through field tests, the project will pave the way for future commercial exploitation of a new biopesticide product by drawing up a feasibility study for future spin-off activities and/or new production lines in partner SMEs. Staff secondments and inter-sector and international mobilities between complementary partners will represent a unique opportunity to optimise bioproduction processes and obtain high added-value bioproducts, while building up the partners’ skills and reinforcing the training of early-stage researchers through knowledge sharing and networking. Inter-sectors mobility will bring SMEs and researchers to work conjointly on conditioning procedures for field tests, impact evaluation and product maturation/exploitation. The project will also adopt a concrete RRI approach by favouring public engagement and informal education through the different outreach activities aimed at a variety of target groups.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES DE TOULOUSE · ToulouseCoordinatorFrance
  • BIOINDUSTRY PARK SILVANO FUMERO SPA SOCIETA'BENEFIT · Colleretto GiacosaItaly
  • BIYANS BIYOLOJIK URUNLER AR-GE DANISMANLIK SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI · Cankaya AnkaraTürkiye
  • CENTRE DE BIOTECHNOLOGIE DE SFAX - CBS · SfaxTunisia
  • CENTRE TECHNIQUE DES AGRUMES · Beni Khaled NabeulTunisia
  • INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT · ParisFrance
  • INSTITUT PASTEUR DE TUNIS · TunisTunisia
  • JULIUS KUHN-INSTITUT BUNDESFORSCHUNGSINSTITUT FUR KULTURPFLANZEN · QuedlinburgGermany
  • LES LABORATOIRES MEDIS · NabeulTunisia
  • UNIVERSITE SAINT-JOSEPH · BeirutLebanon
  • WIKI START-UP · TunisTunisia

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union