The Grand Hotel “4 opatijska cvijeta” in Opatija hosted from February 4 to 7, 2020 “64th Conference on Plant Protection “. The Conference was held in the framework of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and organized by the Croatian Plant Protection Society. During the Seminar, 49 oral presentations were held and 31 poster were presented in the poster section. There were also 2 round tables and 2 panel discussions. Within the poster section, under the group “New projects”, the project “New methods in olive pests controlling using plant volatiles” was presented.

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On December 20, 2019, at the Ministry of Science and Education of Republic of Croatia, the signing ceremony of 24 contracts from the call “Investing in Reserach and Innovation – First Call” was held. Among the signed contracts was the contract of the project “New Methods in the Control of Olive Pests Using Plant Volatiles” (LoVeFly) of reference number KK.01.1.1.04 of the priject leader PhD Elda Vitanović. This project is co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, under the “Operational Program Competitiveness and Cohesion 2014-2020”, Priority Axis 1. Strengthening the economy through R&D and Specific Objective 1a1 Increased R&D capacities of R&D sector to perform excellent research and to serve the needs of economy.

Among the guests at the signing ceremony were the director of the Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, PhD Katja Žanić and project leader PhD Elda Vitanović.

More details about the signing of project (in Croatian)