Projet ARISTO (Horizon 2020, appel à projets 2020)
Action : Doctoral Networks - Industrial Doctorates
Panel : Environment and Geosciences
Statut du projet : SIGNED

In ARISTO (the European Industry - Academia Network for RevIsing and Advancing the Assessment of the Soil Microbial TOxicity of Pesticides), leading universities and industrial partners join forces to perform a cutting edge research and doctorate training programme tackling the global challenge of minimising the environmental off-target effects of pesticides. The multi-sectoral approach of ARISTO, interlinking disciplines from soil microbiology, microbial ecology, environmental chemistry and risk assessment, will generate the new generation of Microbial Ecotoxicologists specialized in pesticides-soil microbes interactions. The research challenge of ARISTO is to produce benchmarking knowledge supporting the development of advanced tools and procedures, based on the response of key microbial indicator groups like ammonia-oxidizing microorganisms (AOM) and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), for the comprehensive assessment of the toxicity of pesticides on soil microorganisms. ARISTO offers doctorate fellows a challenging training programme build along 5 research objectives: (1) to develop pioneering in vitro tests, as a first conservative step, to assess the toxicity of pesticides on distinct AOM (ESR1) and AMF (ESR2) strains (2) to develop advanced experimental lab and field tests to assess the toxicity of pesticides on natural soil assemblages of AOM (ESR3) and AMF (ESR4), as a more realistic toxicity assessment step (3) to develop an ecosystem-level toxicity assessment: identify the response of soil microbial networks to pesticides (ESR5) and explore the impact of pesticides on microorganisms from different trophic-levels within the soil food-web (predator - prey) (ESR6) (4) to develop novel tools and procedures to determine the soil microbial toxicity of pesticide mixtures (ESR7) and biopesticides (ESR8) (5) to develop & validate advanced in silico tools for prioritizing transformation products (TPs) of pesticides with potential toxicity to soil microbes (ESR9)

Mots clés : pesticides, ecotoxicity, soil microorganisms, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, ammonia oxidizing microorganisms, microbial networks, soil food web, pesticides transformation products

Participants :
- University of Thessaly (Grèce) — Coordinator, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 243017.64 €
- Syngenta (Switzerland) (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 140638.32 €
- Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (Suisse) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 140638.32 €
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 126394.2 €
- Metabolic insights ltd (Israël) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 131750.46 €
- Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgique) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 128160.0 €
- Phytothreptiki industrial and commercial company of fertilizers agricultural goods societe anonyme (Grèce) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 0.0 €
- Hydreka (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 164346.89 €
- SAYENS (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 137401.02 €
- Centrale Lyon (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 137401.02 €
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Suède) — Partner, beneficiary, Enseignement supérieur ou secondaire, subvention : 140991.48 €
- Inoq gmbh (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 220908.97 €
- ECT Oekotoxikologie (Germany) (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 126394.2 €
- Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (France) — Partner, beneficiary, Recherche, subvention : 274802.04 €
- Ncimb limited (Royaume-Uni) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 151586.28 €
- Envipath ug & co kg (Allemagne) — Partner, beneficiary, Organismes privés (hors enseignement), subvention : 126394.2 €