Agrobiodiversity and pollination research projects join forces
VALOR brings together interdisciplinary researchers, NGOs and businesses, with the aim to co-develop and demonstrate a systems-based approach to understanding, measuring and responding to changes in the benefits that pollinators provide to society and the economy. VALOR bases its approach on the specific needs of seven focal regions, to build a better understanding of the flow of pollination benefits across actors and make our methods, tools, databases and models visible and accessible.
WildPosh is a multi-actor, transdisciplinary project whose overarching mission and ambition are to significantly improve the evaluation of risk to pesticide exposure of wild pollinators, and enhance the sustainable health of pollinators and pollination services in Europe. As chemical exposure varies geographically, across cropping systems, inside the crop system and among pollinators, we will characterise exposure by doing fieldwork in 4 countries representing the four main climatic European regions, Mediterranean, Atlantic, Continental and Boreal climate in Germany, England, Estonia and Spain. We will also develop experiments in controlled conditions on different species of bees, syrphid flies, moths and butterflies, and collect in silico data on their traits and on toxicity of pesticides.
The FRAMEwork project (“Farmer Clusters for Realising Agrobiodiversity Management across Ecosystems”) is an H2020‑funded, Europe‑wide initiative focused on promoting biodiversity-sensitive agriculture. Operating across 10 countries with 18 partners, it creates “living labs”—11 Farmer Clusters—where conventional and sustainable farmers collaborate with researchers, NGOs, businesses, and policymakers to develop region-specific ecological, economic and social tools. The project aims to bridge agricultural productivity and ecosystem health by empowering farmers, testing new tools and informing future policies.
AGRI4POL's goal is to promote the benefits of transforming agriculture from being a pressure on pollinators to becoming a positive force for restoring and managing pollinators and pollination services that support agriculture and provide food and other benefits to ecosystems and people. AGRI4POL takes an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to achieve this transition towards a sustainable pollinator-friendly farming.
RestPoll is a highly transdisciplinary project aiming to provide society with tools to reverse wild pollinator declines and to position Europe as a global leader in pollinator restoration. Together with stakeholders ranging from individual land managers to governments, RestPoll will co-design, evaluate and refine measures and cross-sectoral approaches to restore pollinators and their services. Central to RestPoll is the establishment of a Europe-wide network of pollinator restoration case study areas and Living Labs (LL), which are unique hubs for experimentation, demonstration, and mutual learning.
Safeguard is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project that started on 1 September 2021, and will continue until 31 August 2025. It aims to substantially contribute to reversing the loss of wild pollinators across Europe through increasing our understanding of the direct and indirect drivers of pollinator declines, environmental, economic and societal impacts and delivering an integrated assessment framework as basis for a portfolio of effective policy and practice solutions. Safeguard brings together world-leading researchers, NGOs, industry and policy experts to substantially contribute to Europe’s capacity to reverse the losses of wild pollinators. Safeguard will significantly expand current assessments of the status and trends of European wild pollinators including bees, butterflies, flies and other pollinating insects.
Agrobiodiversity and science-policy
interface (SPI) projects join forces
BioAgora is a European collaborative project funded by the Horizon Europe programme. It aims to connect research results on biodiversity to the needs of decision-making in a targeted dialogue between scientists, other knowledge holders and policy actors. Its main outcome will be the development of a fair and functional Science Service for Biodiversity that will orchestrate processes and initiatives at the Science-Policy Interface at the European level. BioAgora will go beyond the state of the art by co-creating new ways of bridging the gap between science, practice and policy, which will be used as a basis for the development of the Science Service for Biodiversity.
Useful platforms
Recodo is a European platform that hosts the FRAMEwork Advanced Farmer Cluster Network online and provides tools to promote the creation and maintenance of new Cluster Networks.
The platform also provides useful resources for people managing farmland biodiversity in their landscapes to achieve conservation and sustainability goals: from individual Farm Businesses, to Community Groups, NGOs, Research Projects and Policymakers.
Healthy soils are essential for life on Earth as they are the foundation of our food systems. They provide clean water and habitats for biodiversity while contributing to climate resilience and support our cultural heritage and landscapes and is the basis of our economy and prosperity.
Soils are under multiple pressures, including climate change, urbanization, pollution, overexploitation, nutrient mining and biodiversity loss with the European Commission estimating that under current management practices, 60-70% of our soils are unhealthy.
Safeguard Knowledge Exchange Hub (Safe-Hub) is an integrative platform that facilitates access to currently fragmented knowledge on pollinators at national and European levels. It is the single nexus point for data, information and toolkits on pollinator conservation from the Horizon 2020 project, Safeguard, and other relevant pollinator projects, networks and initiatives.
The platform consolidates and centralises many existing resources from previous projects and initiatives in a well-organised and user-friendly web format. Here, you can find useful information on pollinator health, monitoring, distribution, and conservation, along with newly developed and existing data and tools.
BioAgora is a European collaborative project funded by the Horizon Europe programme. It aims to connect research results on biodiversity to the needs of decision-making in a targeted dialogue between scientists, other knowledge holders and policy actors.
Its main outcome will be the development of a fair and functional Science Service for Biodiversity that will orchestrate processes and initiatives at the Science-Policy Interface at the European level.
BioAgora will go beyond the state of the art by co-creating new ways of bridging the gap between science, practice, and policy, which will be used as a basis for the development of the Science Service for Biodiversity.
