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The SPRINT-project aims to develop a Global Health Risk Assessment Toolbox to assess

impacts of Plant Protection Products (PPPs) on environment and human health and to

propose several transition pathways

 


The SPRINT-project aims to develop a

Global Health Risk Assessment Toolbox

to assess impacts of Plant Protection Products (PPPs)

on environment and human health

 

 

 

 

The SPRINT project will make an internationally valid contribution to assess integrated risks and impacts of pesticides on environment and human health, both at regional and European level. SPRINT will inform and accelerate the adoption of innovative transition pathways towards more sustainable plant protection in the context of a global health approach. 

CLOSED - Postdoc position: Integrated Risk Assessment of Pesticides

JOB OPPORTUNINTY

SPRINT is searching for an experienced, multidisciplinary, innovative and highly motivated scientist to join our team at Masaryk University, Czech Republic. 

The research topic is “integrated risk assessment of pesticides”, combining environmental chemistry and modelling, toxicology and ecotoxicology, geographical information systems, crop protection and pesticides, databases and big-data processing, human health risks assessment and ecological risk assessment. The prospective scientist will develop tools for the integrated risk assessment of pesticides from the national to European level. He or she will elaborate large data on plant protection products use and properties, model and predict their inputs to the environment, their fate and distribution, their exposure, effects, impacts and risks.

Learn more about this exciting opportunity and apply here. 

Project Activities

Interested in what we are doing within SPRINT? There will be frequent updates about for instance the WP2 sampling campain in the different Case Study Sites. But also other interesting activities such as  SPRINT plenary meetings will be announced. Click here to go to the "Project Activities". 

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Pesticides only tested separately from each other, but not together: experts express concern

In the Dutch TV show Eenvandaag, an item about plant protection products (pesticides) Paul Scheepers (SKU) and Violette Geissen (WU) were interviewed about the SPRINT project. 

What the mix of the many agents do to us and to the environment is still barely known. The NVWA is working with RIVM to develop a method to measure the "cocktail effect" of pesticides. The European Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (EFSA) has also recently presented an action plan for this, but specific research is lacking.

Research being carried out at the universities of Wageningen and Nijmegen is therefore awaited with great interest. In this so-called SPRINT research, researchers are looking at the effects of the combination of substances. "It is difficult to predict the behavior of mixtures. You have to test what those mixtures do and that is what we are going to look at more closely in SPRINT," says Paul Scheepers, toxicologist at Radboud UMC.

 

Read more: Pesticides only tested separately from each other, but not together: experts express concern

New SPRINT related scientific articles

Have you already checked out our webpage containing all scientific articles that have been published related to our SPRINT project? Recently we have added a few more. Go ahead and have a look by clicking on the banner!

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Harmonizing action on pesticide residues in soils through tools, data and capacity building
  26 Jun 2025, 12:00 - 14:00

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The Project

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SPRINT aims to develop a Global Health Risk Assessment Toolbox to assess impacts of plant protection products (PPP) on ecosystem, plant, animal and human (EPAH) health.

The SPRINT method

Rings

SPRINT consists of 9 interlinked work packages. The distribution and the impacts of PPP on EPAH health will be evaluated at 11 case study sites (CSS)

Measure and Model

Measure

PPP pathways, and direct and indirect animal and human exposure routes will be assessed to improve current fate, exposure, and toxicokinetic models

Stakeholders

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SPRINT is based on a multi-actor approach to engage stakeholders and identify needs, improving farmer and citizen awareness, joint development of novel strategies for reduced reliance on PPP use.

Funding

SPRINT Project is funded by

the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme for research & innovation under grant agreement no 862568

 

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