Stronger together – PestSpace partners
10 July 2025
To counter this threat, the PestSpace project brings together a unique alliance: universities, public agencies, seed companies, and farmers. Their goal? To build a shared, digital response system based on DNA detection, AI recognition, and cross-border cooperation.
Together, we are developing a user-friendly mobile app and a powerful data platform to identify pests through photos and environmental DNA (eDNA). This isn’t just a research effort. It’s a farmer’s field assistant, a policymaker’s warning system, and a scientist’s open lab — all rolled into one.
PestSpace is more than a technology. It’s a community of people and institutions united by one goal: faster detection, smarter action, and stronger resilience. Whether you are a farmer in Lithuania, a researcher in Finland, or an advisor in Poland — PestSpace is being built for you.
Follow our journey. Meet the people. Explore the science. Help shape the solution.
More detailed presentations of each partner will be published soon — stay tuned!
PestSpace Partners:
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- University of Tartu - ESTONIA
- Centre of Estonian Rural Research and Knowledge - ESTONIA
- Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies - LATVIA
- Natural Resources Institute Finland - FINLAND
- University of Warsaw - POLAND
- Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences - POLAND
- University of Helsinki - FINLAND
- Plant Breeding Smolice Ltd. / IHAR Group - POLAND
- Vytautas Magnus University - LITHUAN:IA
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Project typeCore Project
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ImplementationMarch 2025 - February 2028
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StatusOngoing
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Contribution to EUSBSRPolicy Area Bioeconomy
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Target groups
- Business support organisation
- Higher education and research institution
- National public authority
- Sectoral agency
- Small and medium enterprise
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