From June 3 to 6, 2025, the 21st International Workshop on QSAR in Environmental and Health Sciences was held in Milan, Italy, hosted by PollinERA partner institution the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research. The event brought together researchers from academia and industry, regulators, and other stakeholders to discuss the development and application of (Q)SARs in the fields of health and environmental safety.  The PollinERA project was presented during the workshop.

The project was featured through two dissemination activities led by the leading institution on Work Package 2 (WP2) - Mario Negri Institute. The involvement within the Workshop consisted of an oral presentation and a poster presentation, both focusing on research conducted under WP2. The audience consisted of scientists and regulators, with active engagement and interest in the project’s methods and findings.

The oral presentation titled “A new expert-based system to classify plant protection products according to their mode of action” included an introduction to the PollinERA project, a description of the method developed in WP2, the results obtained, and possible applications. The talk attracted interest from both scientists and representatives of the agrochemical industry. Moreover, a poster has also been presented showcasing two QSAR models, one regression and one classification, developed within WP2 to support pesticide toxicity prediction in Apis mellifera using in silico methods. The scientific poster communicated the methodology, models and preliminary results. Audience members expressed strong interest in the integration of silico tools in ecotoxicology.

This activity contributed to raising awareness of PollinERA’s outputs and promoted the relevance of its tools for pesticide risk assessment.