During Safeguard’s fourth and final consortium meeting held between 17 and 19 March 2025, partners gathered in Mons, Belgium, to discuss the novel and inspiring results generated by the project over the last 4 years.
The meeting concluded with presentations from different EU pollinator projects, synchronising efforts and avoiding duplication of work. The presented projects included:
- EPIC is a new project aiming to increase taxonomic capacity and prepare EUPOMS; EPIC BEE, FLY, and BUTTERFLY (Sarah Lescot, UMONS);
- WildPosh aims to significantly improve the evaluation of the risk of pesticide exposure of wild pollinators (Denis Michez, UMONS);
- VALOR aims 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 (Tom Breeze, UREAD);
- AGRI4POL seeks to transform agriculture from a threat to pollinators into a driver of biodiversity, ecosystem health, and crop pollination services (Adam Vanbergen, INRAE);
- EU PoMS is a field-based monitoring scheme that will provide robust information on the status and trends of pollinator populations in EU countries (Oliver Schweiger, UFZ)
- PollHab is a new initiative aiming to support the Member States in including pollinator species as typical species for the habitats protected under the Habitats Directive (Lorenzo Marini, UNIPD)
- Safeguard China is a Chinese national project aiming to apply Safeguard methods in China (Xiushan Li, CWNU)
Learn more about the Safeguard’s fourth Annual General Meeting here.