
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
The project PestSpace helps farmers, authorities, and researchers quickly detect and respond to emerging plant pests using AI and environmental DNA, protecting crops and ecosystems in the Baltic Sea region.
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.
in numbers.
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3.18MillionTotal
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2.55MillionErdf
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0.00MillionNorway
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PestSpace
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Project partners
Lead partnerUniversity of Tartu
- TownTartu
- Region
- CountryEstonia
- RegionLõuna-Eesti
- RepresentativeUniversity of Tartu
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
714,596.00
Centre of Estonian Rural Research and Knowledge
- TownJõgeva
- Region
- CountryEstonia
- RegionLõuna-Eesti
- RepresentativeCentre of Estonian Rural Research and Knowledge
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
375,898.00
Latvia University of Life Sciences and Tech
- TownJelgava
- Region
- CountryLatvia
- RegionZemgale
- RepresentativeLatvia University of Life Sciences and Tech
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
298,008.00
Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
- TownHelsinki
- Region
- CountryFinland
- RegionHelsinki-Uusimaa
- RepresentativeNatural Resources Institute Finland (Luke)
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
211,573.76
University of Warsaw
- TownWarsaw
- Region
- CountryPoland
- RegionMiasto Warszawa
- RepresentativeUniversity of Warsaw
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
268,906.12
Institute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences
- TownPoznań
- Region
- CountryPoland
- RegionMiasto Poznań
- RepresentativeInstitute of Plant Genetics, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
495,265.28
University of Helsinki
- TownHelsinki
- Region
- CountryFinland
- RegionHelsinki-Uusimaa
- RepresentativeUniversity of Helsinki
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
369,015.00
Plant Breeding Smolice Ltd. / IHAR Group
- TownKobylin
- Region
- CountryPoland
- RegionLeszczyński
- RepresentativePlant Breeding Smolice Ltd. / IHAR Group
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
138,441.32
Vytautas Magnus University
- TownKaunas
- Region
- CountryLithuania
- RegionKauno apskritis
- RepresentativeVytautas Magnus University
- Phone
- E-Mail
- Web
Total partner budget
312,708.00
Contacts
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Project manager, Communication managerKadri PõldmaaUniversity of Tartu
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Financial managerMartin VippUniversity of Tartu
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