Improving resilience to the spread of plant diseases via a regional Pest Common Data Space
PestSpace
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PestSpace

PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
1 Innovative societies
objective
1.1 Resilient economies and communities
Project type
Implementation
March 2025 - February 2028

PestSpace

As the climate changes, pests previously unable to survive in the BSR will become viable and may flourish in the new conditions. To enable rapid responses, it is necessary to collect and monitor data on the diversity of plant diseases, especially during growing season. Precise biodiversity data of pests are a crucial prerequisite to develop possible future scenarios of their spread and make recommendations for adaptation. A major challenge is that we miss such precise and digitally available monitoring schema. This data must be collected, integrated with existing data, and analyzed as soon as possible. It must be easily shareable between farmers, officials, and researchers across countries to ensure that threats are identified and responded to quickly and comprehensively. PestSpace will use existing technologies to create a system that identifies pests in the field using environmental DNA and photos uploaded via a mobile app. Machine-learning will be used to discover and identify unknown pests and data will be stored in a common data space on the PlutoF platform.The system will quickly notify plant growers of threats and provide guidance on how to respond to them.We will develop guidance materials on the use of the system and engage all stakeholders along the value chain. We will validate the system using two important crops to the BSR and create guidelines on how the system could be further expanded to cover other crops in other countries in the BSR in the future
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Budgets

PestSpace
in numbers.
  • 3.18
    Million
    Total
  • 2.55
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.00
    Million
    Norway
52 Benefitting organisations 1 Solution(s) in preparation 1 Solution(s) plannedfor use / upscale 3 Pilotactivities 17 Organisationsin the project

PestSpace
in numbers.

Project partners

Lead partnerUniversity of Tartu
  • Town
    Tartu
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Lõuna-Eesti
Total partner budget
714,596.00
Centre of Estonian Rural Research and Knowledge
  • Town
    Jõgeva
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Lõuna-Eesti
Total partner budget
375,898.00
Latvia University of Life Sciences and Tech
  • Town
    Jelgava
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Zemgale
Total partner budget
298,008.00
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
  • Town
    Helsinki
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Helsinki-Uusimaa
Total partner budget
211,573.76
University of Warsaw
  • Town
    Warsaw
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Miasto Warszawa
Total partner budget
268,906.12
Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences
  • Town
    Poznań
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Miasto Poznań
Total partner budget
495,265.28
University of Helsinki
  • Town
    Helsinki
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Helsinki-Uusimaa
Total partner budget
369,015.00
Plant Breeding Smolice Ltd. / IHAR Group
  • Town
    Kobylin
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Leszczyński
Total partner budget
138,441.32
Vytautas Magnus University
  • Town
    Kaunas
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Kauno apskritis
Total partner budget
312,708.00

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