Pollinator Park was designed in collaboration with world renowned ‘archiobiotect’ Vincent Callebaut. It’s a 30-minute interactive and emotionally engaging virtual reality experience that immerses you in a futuristic world where man and nature co-exist in harmony, hoping to change your perspective and help turn the tide.

All around Europe people are making efforts to address the dramatic decline of pollinators. We all need to work together to tackle the challenge effectively. This platform aims to facilitate information sharing – on the problem and what is being done across the EU to solve it – and collaboration between stakeholders.

Whether you are a citizen, scientist, civil society activist, farmer, forester, beekeeper, business, or a representative of public authorities, this site will help you to find useful information and contacts.

COLOSS (Prevention of honey bee COlony LOSSes) is an international, non-profit association headquartered in Bern, Switzerland that is focussed on improving the well-being of bees at a global level. They are composed of scientific professionals that include researchers, veterinarians, agriculture extension specialists and students. 

The EU Pollinator Hub is a new milestone in efforts to improve the pollinator status, beekeeping and pollination in Europe. An online collective approach sharing harmonised and standardised data on pollinators to monitor their health and target actions better to protect them. The EU Pollinator Hub is a unique online platform that integrates and centralises data related to pollinators, bees, beekeeping, and other relevant data for the agricultural sector.

EU Bee Partnership Prototype Platform aims at collecting and exchanging standardised data on pollinator health and other relevant data based on the Bee Hub Proof of concept.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is currently financing the development of a platform to collect, integrate and communicate bee and pollinator-related data. The platform is based on the Bee Hub Proof of Concept (PoC) initially led by BeeLife European Beekeeping Coordination within the framework of the Internet of Bees Project. This new stage of development aims at responding to the main conclusions of the EU Bee Partnership: the need for data standardisation and communication. 

Championing the Farmed Environment is a partnership which supports farmers to deliver environmental benefits within a productive farm business. It provides guidance and support to allow more farmers to manage their land in a way which works for their business and the environment.

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.

NutriB2 - Nutrition as critical link between Biodiversity and Bee health - a research project funded under the 2019 joint BiodivERsA Call on "Biodiversity and its influence on animal, human and plant health". It strives to gain a better understanding of the complex relationships between wild bees’ nutrition, interaction with pathogens, bees’ health and their diversity. It will study the nutritional dietary demands of European wild bee species, the supply of nutrients in their food offered by different plant species as well as toxic compounds, both natural and of human origin, that are present in this food.

VOODOO will generate new knowledge on the disease risk in different landscapes to pollinators arising from the effects of urban and agricultural land-use on floral resources, pollinator foraging and viral pathogen coinfection and transmission. We will achieve this through measurement of field-sampled plant-pollinator-virus communities with high-resolution molecular analysis, laboratory and field experiments, modelling and analysing perceptions of disease risk among stakeholders.

SUPER-B is a COST Action that will bring together scientific and societal communities involved in the conservation and sustainable management of ecosystem services mediated by pollinators. SUPER-B will combine scientific evidence (existing and new knowledge) and social feedback for developing conservation strategies for pollinators. Specifically, the Action will (1) identify the role of insect pollination in agriculture and other ecosystems; (2) clarify best practices for mitigation of pollination loss, and (3) compare and contrast important drivers of pollinator loss (wild and managed species). 

B-GOOD will pave the way towards healthy and sustainable beekeeping within the European Union by following a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach. Merging data from within and around beehives as well as wider socioeconomic conditions, B-GOOD will develop and test innovative tools to perform risk assessments according to the Health Status Index (HSI). 

B-GOOD has the overall goal to provide guidance for beekeepers and help them make better and more informed decisions.

INSIGNIA is an innovative project which will build on the wide range of expertise of the applicants developed during previous projects such as the COLOSS “CSI Pollen project”. INSIGNIA involves the development of a protocol for a citizen science monitoring programme using beekeepers to collect biweekly pollen samples from honeybee colonies for analysis for pesticide residues and botanical origin. In the first year, in four EU member states representing all authorisation zones, monitoring using the well-established technique for collecting pollen samples using pollen traps, will be compared with two innovative techniques: the collection of beebread using a novel sampling device, and the use of passive in-hive sampling devices.

Selective breeding is a powerful tool to improve the economic basis of beekeeping and to cope with challenges to honey bees due to parasites, diseases, climatic and environmental changes. This project focuses on the most effective selection methods and marketing structures for a wide spectrum of European bee races and ecotypes, and beekeeping traditions as well as ecological and environmental circumstances.

SHOWCASing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and Ecosystem services to help farmers capitalising on native biodiversity (SHOWCASE) is dedicated to the integration of biodiversity into farming practices. The project aims to deliver new insight and innovative tools facilitating the agricultural sector’s transition towards more sustainable farming, and thus help meet wider societal needs. To achieve a breakthrough in the integration of biodiversity into farming, leading scientists in the field of agro-ecology and socio-economy join forces with farmer and citizen science networks, science communication specialists and nature conservation NGOs.

The overall objective of EcoStack is to develop and support ecologically, economically and socially sustainable crop production via stacking and protection of functional biodiversity.

The Project “Optimised Pest Integrated Management to precisely detect and control plant diseases in perennial crops and open-field vegetables” (OPTIMA) will develop an environmentally friendly IPM framework for vineyards, apple orchards and carrots by providing a holistic integrated approach which includes all critical aspects related to integrated disease management.

 BeeConnected brings farmers and beekeepers together, and notifies beekeepers when a neighbouring farmer is applying insecticides to their crops.

Promote Pollinators, the Coalition of the Willing on Pollinators, is a coalition of 30 countries and observers who believe that country-led politics can foster policy measures and innovative action to protect pollinators. Pollinators play a key role in the conservation of biological diversity, ecosystems, food production and the global economy. The effects of current human activities hamper animal pollination. Promote Pollinators reaches out to potential new partners to develop and implement national pollinator strategies. 

The Wild Bee Specialist Group aims to foster the conservation of wild bees and their habitats around the world by promoting and strengthening regional and global networks of specialists, conducting assessments of their conservation status, raising awareness among the public and policy makers, and engaging in practical conservation actions at local, regional and global scale. 

The MUST-B project draws on EFSA’s expertise in areas such as animal and plant health, data collection and analysis, modelling, pesticides and environmental risk, but will also involve a range of experts and stakeholders from beyond EFSA. It comprises a number of interlinked activities that are being carried out either in-house or in collaboration with external experts, researchers and bodies such as EU Member States, the European Commission, EU sister agencies, and the European Reference Laboratory for Bee Health. The project is being overseen by a working group made up of experts from a variety of scientific backgrounds. The EU Bee Partnership and the research development supporting MUST-B (B-GOOD and PoshBee) play a crucial role in developing this aspect of the project.

The EU-PoMS delivers of a cost-effective Core Scheme, which includes the most relevant data, is able to detect changes in the status of pollinators, has EU-wide coverage, and uses standardised sampling methods. It also provides a set of additional modules for other taxa and measures beyond the Core Scheme.

The UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS) is part of a wider Pollinator Monitoring and Research Partnership (PMRP) that aims to establish how insect pollinator populations are changing across the UK.

They are working with existing recording schemes that focus on pollinating insects, and have established two new large-scale surveys for PoMS (the FIT Counts and the 1 km square survey) which are running throughout the UK with help from many volunteers.

The status of biodiversity in Europe is generally below standard and many targets are not being met. This is why MAMBO’s work programme aims to provide the knowledge, tools and infrastructure for monitoring wildlife and their habitats more comprehensively. The project will develop novel monitoring tools that will enhance knowledge of the state of biodiversity in Europe. Through its demonstration sites, MAMBO will showcase the effectiveness and added value of its new technologies. Automating biodiversity monitoring is a more cost-efficient and rapid process that allows for upscaling. MAMBO has the potential to dramatically improve the ecological monitoring landscape in Europe and beyond and in that way, contribute to the aims of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.

The Commission launched the SPRING project (Strengthening pollinator recovery through indicators and monitoring) with an aim to strengthen taxonomic capacity with regard to pollinating insects, support preparation for the implementation of an EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme and pilot the scheme in all 27 EU countries. The budget of the project is EUR 5 million. The project will provide a critical contribution to the establishment of a scientifically robust and sustainable EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme that will provide a series of indicators, capable of detecting any significant changes in the abundance of pollinators across the whole of the EU.

The overall objective of ORBIT is to create a centralised taxonomic facility that lays the groundwork for the identification of European wild bees that will support other European projects such the EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (EU-PoMS), the Preparatory Action for EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme and Indicators (SPRING project), the Horizon 2020 Europe research projects (POSHBEE, SAFEGUARD), national action plan for pollinators, and finally the European Red List of Bees.

After bees and bumblebees, hoverflies constitute the most significant insect pollinator group in the world. Now, under the direction of the University of Helsinki’s Finnish Museum of Natural History Luomus, the goal is to compile accurate taxonomic and ecological data of the more than 900 hoverfly species occurring in Europe, on a well-organised, open and easy-to-use European Commission hosted website. The web platform will constitute a robust knowledge base, and will serve both the broad public, and professionals in the field.

EuropaBONs mission is to overcome existing data gaps and workflow bottlenecks by designing an EU-wide framework for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services.

It aims to engage users at the regional, national and European level to identify the data needs of policies and targets aligned with the new European Green Deal.

IDmyBee is designed as a collaborative project of bee taxonomists and specialists to promote the diffusion of knowledge about wild bee diversity

With more than 2 000 species of wild bees in Europe, identifying a bee can quickly become an overwhelming task. Some bee species can be identified pretty much by anyone with the right tools. For others, it is not possible to assign a species name, or even a genus name without a careful examination, comparison with reference specimens, or even an expert's eye.

Atlas Hymenoptera is originally a joint initiative between the Mons University Zoology's laboratory and the Entomology Unit of Functional and Evolutionary of Gembloux Agro Bio Tech. It has been made possible thanks to the joint efforts of both services that maintain a biogeographic data base of Hymenoptera in Western Europe for many years.

Atlas Hymenoptera is now a platform that brings together many passionate people about hymenoptera's systematics, ecology, biogeography or ethology. This platform includes both French-speaking professionnals and non French-speaking professionnals and Hobbyists. On the website, you will find distribution maps and illustrations of many species from Europe, but you will also discover a relevant bibliography for major groups, the presentation of the team that is behind this work, and so on.

BEEWATCHING is a project that aims to shed light on the state of bees in Italy. It was conceived within two research institutions - the Agriculture and Environment Center of CREA and the Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences of the University of Bologna - but it welcomes all citizens of all ages in order to create a great community of nature lovers who observe the environment, trying to understand which pollinators exist on Italian soil and which ones are in danger.

This knowledge hub provides information on the systematics and biology of a fascinating group of solitary bees — the Osmiini bees. 

The project Status and Trends of European Pollinators (STEP) will document the nature and extent of these declines, examine functional traits associated with particular risk, develop a Red List of important European pollinator groups, in particular bees and lay the groundwork for future pollinator monitoring programmes. STEP will also assess the relative importance of potential drivers of such change, including climate change, habitat loss and fragmentation, agrichemicals, pathogens, alien species, light pollution, and their interactions. STEP will measure the ecological and economic impacts on declining pollinator services and floral resources including effects on wild plant populations, crop production and human nutrition. It will review existing and potential mitigation options, providing novel tests of their effectiveness across Europe. 

The Finnish national strategy and action plan for pollinators aims to halt the decline in the numbers of pollinators and their diversity by 2030, strengthen the populations of pollinator species and ensure the pollination of both wild and cultivated plants.

The action plan contains 27 measures, which are divided into five themes. The pollinator strategy also includes a proposal for national pollinator monitoring and the estimated resources required for it.

The French pollinator plan covers the period 2021-2026 and is structured along 6 axes:

1. Improvement of scientific knowledge;
2. Economic and support levers for farmers, beekeepers and foresters;
3. Support for other activity sectors (urban development, linear infrastructure, industrial sites, sites with large land holdings, protected areas);
4. Preservation of bee health;
5. Regulations for the protection of pollinators during the application of plant protection products;
6. Sharing pollinator-friendly agricultural practices.

The plan sets out concrete measures in favour of wild pollinating insects and honey bees to restore their habitats and improve their available food resources, as well as to restore the ecological services provided by pollination.

Pollinators are in decline, with one-third of our 98 wild bee species threatened with extinction from the island of Ireland. In publishing the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan (AIPP) in September 2015, Ireland became one of the first countries in Europe to address this issue – in order to ensure the sustainability of our food, avoid additional economic impacts on agriculture, and protect the health of the environment.

The Luxembourgish National action plan for the preservation of pollinating insects covers the period 2021 – 2026. Its scope covers issues related to securing pollination as a service: safeguarding insect communities, conservation of diversity of floral and faunal species, recovery and maintenance of biodiversity, but also agricultural productivity.

In January 2018, the Netherlands adopted a national Pollinator Strategy called ‘Bed & Breakfast for Bees’, which entails the protection of all pollinators and especially the many species of wild bees in the country. Amongst its goals is to ensure the future existence of all pollinator-species now present in the Netherlands.

The Spanish National Strategy for the Conservation of Pollinators (2021 – 2030) was approved in 2020. It presents the state of pollinators and the main causes of their decline. Based on this diagnosis, it sets objectives and announces measures in four major areas of action:

1. Promotion of favourable habitats;
2. Improved management of pollinators and reduction of risks from pests, pathogens and invasive species;
3. Reduction of the risk derived from the use of phytosanitary products;
4. Carrying out research that helps to cover existing knowledge gaps and to disseminate and facilitate access to this information.

This policy paper sets out what the United Kingdom will be doing to improve the state of their bees and other pollinating insects and how they are monitoring the progress.

The Estonian Professional Beekeepers Association (EPBKA) was established in 2008 in order to popularize the beekepers’ profession. This non-profit association assembles the professional beekeepers in Estonia. The main activities involve the propagation of beekeeping as a profitable business and the development of this sector in Estonia, the promotion of honey and other bee products, and the study of the suitability of the used honey bee races to Estonian conditions. 

The beekeeper association Sachsen-Anhalt e.V. was founded in 1990 and is the not-for-profit umbrella association of 67 local beekeeper organisations in the federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. It is one of the 19 associations which are registered under the national beekeeper association of Germany. Currently, ISA represents 1,943 beekeepers with 14,860 colonies (as of 15.08.2017) which is about 85% of all beekeepers in the federal state. The main task of ISA is the promotion of beekeeping and nature conservation. 

The Federation of Irish Beekeepers Associations represents beekeepers nationwide through a network of local Beekeeping Associations, liaising on their behalf at national and international level. 

FIBKA provides a range of services to members, including insurance, education programmes, guest lectures, and An Beachaire, a monthly magazine.

Biodlingsföretagarna (BF) is a non-profit industry association representing both nationally and internationally the interests of Swedish professional beekeepers. It was founded in 1999 and has currently about 550 members. BF’s main roles are consulting and advice to its members on a range of topics, foremost among which are bee and bee- health management, business advice, economics, marketing, and quality control

UNAAPI, the national union of Italian beekeepers associations, is a second level association grouping of 16 local associations, operating in 14 different Italian regions, and 2 national associations (AAPI - the association of Italian professional beekeepers - and COPAIT – the association for production and validation of Italian fresh royal jelly). UNAAPI represents about 40% of the managed Italian honey bee colonies and its priority commitment is protection of the environment: the honey bee is a fragile sensor and an important sentinel of the progressive degradation of rural biodiversity.

The British Beekeepers’ Association represents 25000 hobbyist beekeepers, who work to raise standards in beekeeping and promote the understanding and importance of honeybees.