Objective
The Community Plant Health Regime (CPHR) aims to prevent the introduction, establishment and spread of regulated and quarantine plant pests. These pests pose increasing risks to European agriculture, horticulture, forestry and the environment. This is due to increased globalisation of trade (volume and diversity), but is exacerbated by climate change and EU expansion (increased pathways). In comparison, resources for national plant health inspection services, science programmes and research are declining. For this reason, the EUPHRESCO Phytosanitary ERA-Net was established in 2006, with the full support of the EU Council Working Party of Chief Officers of Plant Health Services. It aimed to better coordinate national, trans-national and EU-funded research in direct support of the CPHR (EU policy, inspection services and science capability). The current EUPHRESCO Project ends in 2010; this new EUPHRESCO-II proposal will deepen and enlarge the previously successful cooperation between research programmes. EUPHRESCO-II will: Strengthen the basis for, and result in, a self-sustainable, long-term, durable network; Deepen the cooperation through continued trans-national research that optimises limited resources, supports other plant health initiatives and coordination mechanisms, and further develops a culture of collaboration; Deepen the cooperation by improving processes and tools and reducing barriers; Enlarging the network (31 partners, plus 14 Observers) to increase its critical mass, address more regional or sector-based (e.g. forestry plant health) issues and increase opportunities for international cooperation with non-European countries that are either the source of quarantine pests or share similar pest problems. Overall, EUPHRESCO II will enhance the European Research Area that supports the CPHR. It will directly support EU policy, operations and science capability by providing rapid and customised answers to challenges caused by quarantine plant pests.
Call for proposal
FP7-ERANET-2010-RTD
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Funding Scheme
CSA-CA - Coordination (or networking) actionsCoordinator
SW1P 3JR LONDON
United Kingdom
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Participants (35)
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1000 Ljubljana
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1012 Wien
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1220 Wien
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1210 Bruxelles / Brussel
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5030 Gembloux
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9820 Merelbeke
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1040 SOFIA
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11705 Prague
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1057 KOBENHAVN K
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10133 Tallinn
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00023 Helsinki
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75349 Paris
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75007 Paris
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53179 Bonn
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06484 QUEDLINBURG
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14561 Athina
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NA Dublin 2
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00187 Roma
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00184 Roma
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01103 Vilnius
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2595 AC The Hague
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3511 GG UTRECHT
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1250042 LISBOA
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1000 Ljubljana
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28040 MADRID
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3003 Bern
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06000 Ankara
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GU10 4LH Farnham
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EH1 3DG Edinburgh
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03022 KIEV
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140150 BYKOVO
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75011 Paris
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1373 Sofia
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2100 Kbenhavn K
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2780 157 Oeiras
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