First Horizon 2020 draft work programmes for the period of 2016-2017 are circulating on the internet. As in previous years, although marked as 'confidential' they have been available to numerous organisations and partly made openly accessible online.

To add a little transparency and enable you to get started with your project idea development for calls in 2016/2017, we have compiled the available work programmes for download. It is important to understand that the draft work programmes are working documents.

An international consortium of scientists have received funding from Horizon 2020 to develop new, ecofriendly pesticides that will render numerous pest insects less destructive.

The European Commission is organising a workshop to launch the discussion on how we see the future of European agricultural research and innovation until 2020 and, beyond, for the following decade. The event will take place in the context of EXPO Milan 2015 "Feeding the planet - energy for life". 

The idea of intelligent labels has been around for several decades, but it has not yet been put into practice on a large scale, says project coordinator Marie Shrestha of the technology transfer centre of the University of Applied Sciences Bremerhaven (ttz Bremerhaven) in Germany.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, it is an honor to invite you to the

NUTRICON 2015 Conference, which will take place in Skopje, Macedonia, from 19th to 20th of November 2015.

RAMIRAN 2015 is focusing on closing the loop linking rural production and urban consumption systems and on the development of more sustainable solutions for the handling of residues.