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28/08/2008
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The FOOTPRINT work on the development of a typology of European soils according to their potential to transfer pesticides is presented at the EUROSOIL 2008 conference. |
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22/08/2008
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Two new deliverables (DL20 and DL23) can be downloaded from the dedicated page. |
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08/08/2008
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The FOOTPRINT annual meeting 2008 will take place in Wroclaw, Poland, on 6 & 7 November 2008. |
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31/07/2008
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The FOOTPRINT PPDB, the reference database for information on pesticide properties, has benefited from a major update. |
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01/07/2008
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A series of piloting workshops are held in 7 EU countries (Poland, Italy, the UK, Slovenie, Sweden, Greece and France) over the summer to present the farm-scale tool FOOT-FS and benefit from the feedback of users. |
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11/06/2008
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A two-day FOOTPRINT meeting was held in Ljubljana in Slovenia to finalise activities related to the evaluation of the tools. The meeting involved a demonstration of an alpha version of FOOT-NES. |
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09/06/2008
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A 2.5-day seminar involving a wide range of stakeholders and potential users was organised in France to discuss the potential application of the FOOTPRINT tools in the country and development of a national version of the tools |
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26/03/2008
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The FOOTPRINT team has just released FOOTPRINT SUGAR, an innovative index which tells you whether water falling on a particular location mostly contributes to recharge to groundwater (i.e. infiltrating areas) or discharge to surface water. |
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19/02/2008
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The FOOTPRINT web site has now been fully translated in Italian by the ICPS team. The Italian version can be accessed here.
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18/01/2008
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The FOOTPRINT work on the identification of climatic factors regulating the transport of pesticides to water resources has been accepted for publication in Pest Management Science. See the Publications section.
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19/12/2007
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The FOOTPRINT web site has now been fully translated in Polish by Wieslaw Fialkiewicz of the Agricultural University of Wroclaw. The Polish version can be accessed here.
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18/12/2007
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The review entitled "The formation of pesticide non-extractable (bound) residues in soil: magnitude, controlling factors and reversibility" has been accepted for publications in Environmental Science & Technology, a key journal in the environmental field. See the publications page.
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15/12/2007
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New FOOTPRINT presentation document for policy- and decision-makers. See the dedicated section. |
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03/12/2007
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Powerpoint presentations shown at the FOOTPRINT Annual Meeting 2007 on 22-23 November 2007 in Italy can be downloaded from the following page. |
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07/09/2007
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FOOTPRINT benefited from a special session at the XIII Symposium on Pesticide Chemistry in Piacenza, a key event in the field of pesticide risk assessment. See all talks on the Piacenza page.
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14/08/2007
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The FOOTPRINT work on the definition of climatic zones for pesticide fate modelling has been accepted for publication in Environmental Pollution. Another paper reporting on FOOTPRINT science by Fredrik Stenemo and Nick Jarvis has also just appeared in Pest Management Science. This brings the number of scientific papers for the project to four. See the Publications section.
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24/06/2007
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The FOOTPRINT web site is now fully functional in French. Visit www.eu-footprint.org/fr/.
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02/04/2007
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The first FOOTPRINT annual newsletter has been released. Feel free to download the document from the following web page.
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15/01/2007
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The FOOTPRINT Annual Meeting 2007 will take place on 22-23 November 2007 in Italy. |
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02/01/2007
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Four new deliverables are available for download. They constitute the basis of development of the FOOTPRINT agro-environmental scenarios. |
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29/11/2006
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New FOOTPRINT posters can now be downloaded from the (dedicated section).
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23-24/11/2006
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FOOTPRINT annual meeting in Copenhagen. The presentations can be downloaded from this page.
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26-27/09/2006
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Presentation of FOOTPRINT at the AgChemForum in Amsterdam with a particular emphasis on the potential use of FOOT-NES as complementary information in pesticide registration. You may download the presentation here.
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15/09/2006
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The FOOTPRINT annual meeting will take place on 23 and 24 November 2006 in Copenhagen (Denmark). Please visit this page for information regarding the meeting.
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02/07/2006
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The FOOTPRINT reviews on i) approaches to environmental risk assessment for pesticides, ii) pesticide fate models and environmental indicators, iii) bound residues, iv) preferential flow, and v) mitigation strategies and their effectiveness, have been released and are available for download from the deliverables page
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17/05/2006
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The FOOTPRINT Pesticide Properties Database (FOOTPRINT PPDB in short) has been released. The dabasase contains detailed information on chemical, fate and ecotoxicological properties of pesticides registered in the EU. See the FOOTPRINT PPDB page for more details.
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10/05/2006
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Presentation of the project at the SETAC Europe conference in The Hague in the Netherlands. The poster can be downloaded from the poster section.
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11/04/2006
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Meeting with representatives of the EU-funded TOPPS project to discuss synergies and the potential for collaboration
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03-04/04/2006
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Meeting of Work Package leaders at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK
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31/03/2006
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Deliverable #2 of the project is available for download from the deliverables page.
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28/03/2006
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Presentation of the project at the Warwick conference on Pesticide Behaviour in Soils, Water and Air.
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01/03/2006
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The Powerpoint presentations given at the FOOTPRINT kick-off meeting can be downloaded from the Presentations page
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28/02/2006
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The first deliverable of the project is available for download from the deliverables page.
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24/02/2006
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The kick-off meeting of the project has taken place on Friday 24 February 2006 in Orléans, France.
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15/01/2006
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First version of the web site on-line
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01/01/2006
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Official start of the project
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03/11/2005
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End of negotiations with the EU regarding the contract
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06/06/2005
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Feedback from the EU regarding the proposal. The proposal obtained a mark of 28 out of 30.
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31/01/2005
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Submission of the FOOTPRINT proposal to the EU
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30/10/2004
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Publication of the call in the Official Journal of the European Communities
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