What is the TEA Global Challenge?
The HESI Committee to Transform the Evaluation of Agrochemicals is pleased to announce the 2024 TEA Global Challenge, a competition designed to solicit CREATIVE and CUTTING-EDGE solutions to the modernization of the risk assessment paradigm for crop protection products.
Anyone is welcome to participate! You do not need to be an expert in agrochemicals, and we are not looking for perfect solutions. Instead, we invite you to propose creative concepts, that will help advance the current paradigm.
The Objectives of the TEA Global Challenge are to:
- Showcase the feasibility of a new approach for agrochemical safety assessment,
- Encourage knowledge sharing,
- Foster collaboration across disciplines, and sectors.
Anyone is welcome to submit a proposal to solve the problem posed by the TEA Committee. Competitors are encouraged to work in teams, preferable multidisciplinary, although this will not be a selection criterion. Register your team now!
Finalists will be invited to present their case study at the HESI TEA Symposium, in Washington, DC (2025 date TBD), where they will have the opportunity to meet professionals from academia, government and industry with expertise in the field of agrochemicals.
$2000 in travel funds to be used towards a relevant scientific conference (e.g., World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, SOT) will be awarded to the winners, chosen by the TEA Symposium attendees.
Winners will also be provided support to publish their work if they so desire (pre-publication review by Committee members, contribution to open access fees)