Webinar: The SPRINT Toolbox,13th February

The SPRINT Toolbox: a practical tool for more realistic risk assessment of pesticides

Webinar

Date: Friday 13 February 2026

Time: 13:00-14:30 CET (12:00 - 13.30 GMT)

Register today: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/02d67508-6791-4085-bffd-ddffb9b3db34@27d137e5-761f-4dc1-af88-d26430abb18f

Join us on 13th February to learn how you can use the SPRINT Toolbox to build a clearer picture of pesticides’ impacts on human health and ecosystems and, in turn, guide stronger environmental and health protection policies.

What is the SPRINT Toolbox?

The SPRINT Toolbox is here to help you understand and analyse pesticide occurrence, exposure (dietary and environmental) and eco/toxic risks. It contains a collection of pesticide mapping tools, assessment tools, models and extensive European and Argentinian data from the SPRINT project

For decision-makers and policy-makers, the Toolbox supports integrated risk assessments of pesticides (one/global health assessment) and informs strategies aimed at reducing pesticide use.
For scientists, the Toolbox provides a structured platform integrating SPRINT data, exposure models and health impact methodologies, helping you build on existing work without unnecessary duplication.
For the wider public, the Toolbox shows where pesticides occur in Europe, at what levels, and their effects on humans, plants and animals.

What will you learn at the webinar?

The Toolbox's developers will talk you through its key features and uses, including:

Pesticide concentration and ecological risk maps at the field, national and European level that indicate where pesticides may be putting ecosystems under pressure.
Estimates of potential dietary exposure to pesticides for humans and farm animals
Health Impact Assessments of pesticides - how we assessed the potential health effects of a pesticide policy, programme or project before it is implemented
Models to estimate pesticide emissions, fate and exposure, including SPRINT’s SWIPPE (wind-erosion model for particle-phase pesticides) model to calculate downwind concentrations of particle-phase pesticides.

You'll also explore SPRINT's results contained within the Toolbox:

Pesticide monitoring data from 11 case study sites in Europe and Argentina, showing the pesticide residues we detected in the environment, humans and animals.
The toxicity and ecotoxicity of pesticides, including how we assessed mixtures of concern.

Speakers

You will hear from, and have to chance to put your questions to:

Anke Huss, Utrecht University

Arash Derakhshan, Utrecht University

Artur Radomyski, Masaryk University

Daniel Figueiredo, Utrecht University

Farshad Soheilifard, Technical University of Denmark

Jakub Hofman, Masaryk University

Paula da Silva Tourinho, Masaryk University

Rozita Soltani Tehrani, Wageningen University

Shiva Sabzevari, Masaryk University

Simona Panzacchi, Ramazzini Institute

Vera da Felix Silva, Wageningen University