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The FORTUNA project is a three-year initiative funded by the European Union, started in January 2024. The main objective of FORTUNA is to identify future research challenges within the framework of the European Farm to Fork (F2F) Strategy. This strategy sets forth quantitative targets aiming to decrease the overall use and risk of chemical pesticides by 50%, as well as to reduce the use of more hazardous pesticides by 50% before the year 2030. They published their first Newletter. Check it here !

The INRAE team met the teams from the Polish institutes involved in the project: InHort in Skierniewice and IOR-PIB in Poznań.

Interviews with a sample of members (government representatives from EU member states) of the "SUD" working group in preparation for the September meeting in Brussels. A subgroup of this EU working group will constitute the "group 5.1" in Agrowise project.

First 2-day meeting organised by WP 5 with working groups 5.1 (SUD representatives) and 5.2 (experts) for a presentation of the project and its context, and participative workshops.

What happened at this first meeting with working groups 5.1 and 5.2 involved in the project?