FORSAID Project

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#HorizonEU project focusing on digital technologies to detect and monitor invasive forest pests in the EU (№101134200)

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🌿 How can plant health be ensured across both forests and agricultural crops?

🙌 FORSAID and its sister Horizon EU projects @stella-horizon-eu.bsky.social & CERBERUS address this in a joint factsheet, presenting their complementary approaches to the early detection and monitoring of pests.

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📝 Every month, the Reporting Service from our consortium partner @epponews.bsky.social covers pest outbreaks, newly identified host plants and other developments relevant to the EPPO region.

👇 September's edition is linked in the post below.

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🪲 Of 14 platforms asked for research access to track the EU’s 88 listed invasive species, only 6 provided usable data.

💡 That gap matters for our work on forest pest detection, where every early record counts.

👇 Check out the latest policy brief by @onestop-project.eu to find out more!

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📡 Detection models are only as reliable as the field data used to validate them. 🌱 Nice work by our sister project @stella-horizon-eu.bsky.social, inspecting plane trees at high risk of Ceratocystis platani, which is also one of FORSAID's target species.

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💡Tools for early detection of forest pests only make a difference if forest managers and plant health authorities can put them to use. 🌱 How research makes the jump into practice and policy is the focus of the webinar by @purpest-eu.bsky.social on 30 Sept. ⬇️ Register by 29 Sept ⬇️

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⌛Last call! The abstract submissions deadline for @guardias.bsky.social Virtual Conference 2026 is today! 📝 If your work touches AI, eDNA, smart tech or citizen science for invasive species monitoring, do not miss the opportunity to share your research 👇.

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👀 How do FORSAID, CERBERUS and STELLA each try to detect a plant pest before it spreads?

💡 A new joint factsheet lays out their innovative approaches side by side - from remote sensing and ground detection to citizen science crowsourcing and early-warning systems.

🌐 forsaid.eu/news/safegua...

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⌛Today is your last chance to sign up for the workshop on pest reporting by @epponews.bsky.social. 📝 Consistent, well-documented pest status data is exactly what early detection and monitoring systems like the one FORSAID is developing rely on. 👀 Well worth a look for anyone in plant health!

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⁉️How do you calibrate a sensor that detects pests by smell? 📢 A new open access @purpest-eu.bsky.social paper describes custom permeation tubes and an innovative method to generate ultra-trace gas standards. 👇 Link to the full article below!

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📝 A new paper co-authored by FORSAID examines woodwasp movement through global trade, confirming wooden packing as these specimens' main means of spreading.

📡The study is a great reminder of why FORSAID’s own work on early detection matters.

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