News & Events

Scheduled around the World Food Day this conference was the first in what was an annual gathering of European stakeholders willing to engage and help shape the EU's path towards sustainable food systems.

After the adoption of a new EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 in May, Green Week highlighted the contribution biodiversity can make to society and the economy, and the role it can play in supporting and stimulating recovery in a post-pandemic world, bringing jobs and sustainable growth.

Co-hosted by the World Food System Center and the Agricultural Economics and Policy Group of ETH Zurich key challenges and present pathways for advancing European pesticide policies were discussed at this Zoom webinar on 20 October 2020 at 11.00-12.30 CET.

We are having our first online consortium meeting between 6 and 7 October 2020.

The EIP-AGRI Seminar 'CAP Strategic Plans: the key role of AKIS in Member States' was initially planned to take place in Warsaw, Poland on 22-23 April but it was postponed due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19. The seminar took place online. This event was by invitation only.

The 7th annual conference of the French Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (FAERE), September 10 - 11, 2020 was held online.

A series of 4 webinars (31 August, 10 September, 24 September, 12 October 2020 from 10:00 to 12:00) organized by MIND STEP consortium partner INRAE will bring together European researchers working on the futures of agriculture, on crop health and crop protection.

Prepared by Thünen Institute and WR Deliverable D7.4. from WP7 provides summary of the results of a survey and discussions related to the need of installing a single computer cluster for MIND STEP. 

On 24 June 2020 we had lively discussions at a 2-hour online plenary meeting with our Core Stakeholder Group on the results of stakeholder interviews regarding key policy questions and benchmark scenarios for the agricultural sector to be focussed on in our project.

We are very pleased to inform you that we have just released the 1st issue of the MINSTEP Project Newsletter.

You may access and browse or download the PDF version here.

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The first issue of our 6 monthly newsletters will be out very soon. 
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Without a doubt, the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on economies worldwide is devastating. Hardly any sector is not affected and the implementation of many research projects are also impaired. MIND STEP is no exception.