Research & Innovation Research on honeybees and pollinators: Overview of the latest projects selected under the last call of FP7 Béla ATZÉL, PhD planning and programming officer Agri-Food Chain [email protected]European Commission Directorate-General for Research & Innovation
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Research on honeybees and pollinators:
Overview of the latest projects selected under the last call of FP7
• BRAVE - Bee research and virology in Europe - identifying the research needs for protecting European agriculture and ecosystems against viral diseases (2005) http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/75718_en.html
• BEE DOC - Bees in Europe and the decline of honeybee colonies (2010-2013) http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/94004_en.html
• CLEANHIVE - Detecting the Pathogen that Threatens European Honey Bees (2008-2012) http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/94165_en.html
• APIFRESH - Developing European standards for bee pollen and royal jelly: quality, safety and authenticity (2010-2013) http://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/94698_en.html
• to identify crucial facets of honeybee resistance to colony losses, Varroa and viruses;
• to characterise the genetic background of the resistance mechanisms in honeybees;
• to develop breeding strategies to increase the frequencies of these valuable traits in local honeybee populations;
• to promote multiple local breeding efforts, to conserve local resilient populations and will develop molecular tools for describing and safeguarding future populations;
• to protect European natural honeybee heritage.
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SPACERADARPOLLINATOR Space use by bees– radar tracking of spatial movement patterns of key pollinators (2014-2019)
Total cost:
EUR 3 438 922
EU contribution:
EUR 3 438 922
Coordinated in:
United Kingdom
Subprogramme:
ERC-AG-LS8 - ERC Advanced Grant - Evolutionary, population and environmental biology
• transponder miniaturisation, to develop radar technology to allow coverage of areas of up to 10km2 and the exploration of the 3rd dimension of insect flight;
• tracking bees in three dimensions:
• to identify the rules of bee movements at the landscape scale,
• to monitor natural resource exploration and exploitation
• to quantify individual differences in space use.
• to monitor competitive interactions as well as the possibility of social learning in space use.
• to identify spatial movement strategies of queens and males;
• to increase the understanding of pollinator space use, but also for the conservation, management, and the understanding of mating patterns in the plants they pollinate.
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NEUROBEECOG2012 Smart foraging: neuronal complexity, cognition and foraging in honey bees (2014-16)
Total cost:
EUR 299 558
EU contribution:
EUR 299 558
Coordinated in:
United Kingdom
Subprogramme: FP7-PEOPLE-2012-IIF - Marie Curie Action: "International Incoming Fellowships"
• to investigate how honey bees solve choice tasks when available information is limited. (metacognition / alternative simpler strategies)
• to examine how bees recognize and communicate uncertainty about floral resources when foraging socially.
• to determine how natural and manipulated changes in neuronal complexity relate to the abilities of bees to solve cognitive demanding tasks and foraging.
• to examine how cognitive differences, natural and otherwise, relate to neuronal complexity by determining the anatomical changes that occur in key regions of the honey bee brain.
• to determine the relationship between neuronal complexity and cognitive ability and foraging performance and will advance understanding of the evolution and biology of cognition.
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BEEFUN Pollinator responses to global change and its implications for ecosystem function (2014-2018)
• to understand the effects of pollinators species loss in real ecosystems.
• to understand the threats to the pollinator species that provide this critical ecosystem function and assess the consequences of their decline in real ecosystems.
• to investigate this relationship between the stability of ecosystems and the adaptation of species to anthropogenic habitats,
• to develope a framework that takes into account trait functional diversity, species specific responses, and community structure.
• to use new synthetic analysis of existing datasets form Europe and US, and long-term monitoring of experimentally manipulated natural communities in southern Spain.
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3) Future perspectives
FP7 is replcaced by Horizon 2020
• What's new?
• • Coupling research to innovation – from research to retail, all forms of innovation
• • Focus on societal challenges facing EU society (e.g. food security, environment…)
• • Simplified access, for all companies, universities, institutes in all EU countries and beyond…
• …increase in budget!
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Room for project proposals on bees and pollination
• Excellent Science
• European Research Council (ERC)
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions (MSCA)
• Industrial leadership
• Innovation in SMEs
• Societal Challenges
• SC2: Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry…
• SC5: Climate Action, Environment, Research Efficiency…
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Thank you for your attention!
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Annexs for Q&A session
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AMIGA Assessing and Monitoring the Impacts of Genetically modified plants on Agro-ecosystems (2011-2015)
• to document the status and trends of pollinators (managed honeybees, wild bees and hoverflies) and animal-pollinated plant populations;
• to determine and analyse the multiple pressures that are driving changes in pollinators and animal-pollinated plants;
• to assess the impact of changes ;
• to evaluate and synthesise strategies to mitigate the impacts;
• to analyse and improve the interface between the scientific knowledge base on pollinator change assessment and policy instruments to reduce pollinator / pollination loss and mitigate its effects;
• to develop communication and educational links with a wide range of stakeholders and the general public.
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SWARMONITOR Development of a tool for effective diagnostic monitoring of honey bee colonies (2012-2015)
• to develop the first monitoring tool that would detect changes in honey bee activity within the beehive for the effective management of bees.
• the tool to allow beekeepers to remotely diagnose colony status without the invasive opening of hives for physical inspection.
• to increase the efficiency of beekeeping allowing small and hobby beekeepers to more closely manage their colonies and predict behaviour that requires intervention remotely.
• to allow commercial beekeepers to keep more hives over greater geographical distances so increasing their efficiency and profitability.
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AUDITORYFLY Auditory Processing in Insect Brains (2011-14)
Total cost:
EUR 228 277
EU contribution:
EUR 228 277
Coordinated in:
Germany
• Subprogramme: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF - Marie Curie Action: "International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development"
• Call for proposal: FP7-PEOPLE-2010-IOF
• Funding scheme: MC-IOF - International Outgoing Fellowships (IOF)
• to characterise the auditory system, from sensory input to behavioural output, using the brain of Drosophila fruit flies and honeybees.
• to identify neurons responding to species-specific sound features.
• to identify neurons in the auditory centres of the honeybee, while studying brain structures involved in a sophisticated communication mode (waggle dance).
• to discover circuits underlying sound processing in the brain and will contribute to the understanding of fundamental principles of communication.
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PYNAMITE Mode of action and selectivity of pyrethroids on economically important mites and ticks (2012-2014)
Total cost:
EUR 278 807
EU contribution:
EUR 278 807
Coordinated in:
United Kingdom
• Subprogramme: FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF - Marie-Curie Action: "Intra-European fellowships for career development"
• to increase the understanding of pyrethroid effect mechanism and selectivity on mites/ticks (crucial for the design of next generation compounds).
• to enhance selectivity of pyrethroid pesticides - model organism Varroa mites on honeybees.
• to characterise pyrethroid interactions with tick/mite Na channels at molecular level.
• to identify novel resistance mutations and resistance development in pest populations threatens the long-term success of currently effective compounds.
• to develop rapid, high throughput DNA-based assays for diagnosing the presence/absence of resistance mutations in field populations of ticks/mites.