IOBC-WPRS is one of six Regional Sections of the International Organisation for Biological Control. IOBC was established in 1955 to promote environmentally safe methods of pest and disease control in plant protection.
Members of WPRS are individual scientists, governmental, scientific or commercial organisations from 24 countries of Europe, Mediterranean region and the Middle East. IOBC-WPRS encourages collaboration in promoting feasible and environmentally safe methods of pest and pathogen control. Find out more about the aims and objectives of IOBC-WPRS.
Meetings & Activities
Corona Virus (COVID-19) Update: Several IOBC-WPRS meetings had to be postponed due to the current COVID-19 situation. More information see Meetings & Activities page.
New Meeting Announcements:
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9th Meeting of the IOBC-WPRS Working Group "Landscape Management for Functional Biodiversity", Milan, Italy: Postponed, new dates are 07.-10.06.2022.
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4th International Training Course and Workshop: Advanced microscopy techniques for plant-microbe interaction analysis, 04.-08.07.2022, Vienna/Tulln, Austria.
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Online meeting on IPM in vegetables: 10./18.02.2022 from 9.30h until 12.30h CET.
10.02.2022: IPM in protected (glasshouse and polytunnel) vegetable crops
18.02.2022:. IPM in outdoor vegetable crops -
2nd meeting of IOBC-WPRS Study Group on "Integrated Protection of Date Palms" and
7th International Date Palm Conference, 14.-16.03.2022, Emirates Palace Hotel, Abu Dhabi, UAE. -
French EU Presidency Seminar, "What research to meet the pesticides reduction objectives embedded in the European Green Deal?", 02.-03.06.2022, Dijon, France.
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Joint Meeting of the IOBC-WPRS Working Groups "Pheromones and Other Semio-Chemicals in IP" & "Integrated Protection of Fruit Crops": "IPM in the XXI century: New tools, tactics and strategies to improve sustainability from old and new pests and diseases", 25.09.-01.10.2022, Girona, Spain.
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Meeting of the IOBC-WPRS Working Group "Integrated Protection in Oak Forest", 10.-13.10.2022, Hammamet, Tunisia.
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SIP 2022 Meeting: International Congress on Invertebrate Pathology and Microbial Control, 54th Annual Meeting of the Society of Invertebrate Pathology, 31.07.-04.08.2022, Nelson Mandela Bay, South Africa.
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13th Arab Congress of Plant Protection, 16.-21.10.2022, Hammamet, Tunisia.
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11th International Scientific and Practical Conference "Biological plant protection is the basis of agroecosystems stabilization", 19.-23.09.2022, Krasnodar, Russia.
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8th meeting of the IOBC-WPRS Working Group "Integrated Control of Plant-Feeding Mites", 09.2023 (exact date will be communicated later), Belgrade, Serbia.
Important Approaching Deadlines:
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Online meeting on IPM in vegetables: 10./18.02.2022 from 9.30h until 12.30h CET. 10.02.2022: IPM in protected (glasshouse and polytunnel) vegetable crops
18.02.2022:. IPM in outdoor vegetable crops
Deadline for registration: 25.01.2022 -
IOBC-WPRS PR-IR 2022, "Priming the Future for Healthy Plants", IOBC-WPRS Working Group "Induced Resistance in Plants Against Insects and Diseases", 04.-07.04.2022.
Deadline for early bird registration: 28.01.2022 -
French EU Presidency Seminar, "What research to meet the pesticides reduction objectives embedded in the European Green Deal?", 02.-03.06.2022, Dijon, France.
Deadline for paper (abstract) submission: 01.02.2022 - 10th International IPM Symposium, "Implementing IPM across Borders and Disciplines", 28.02.-03.03.2022, Denver, Colorado USA.
Deadline for early bird registration: 04.02.2021
14th IOBC-WPRS General Assembly took place online on 17/18 Nov. 2021
More information: Programme, new Council and Audit Committee 2021-2025 and Reports |
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