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[2025 - 2029]

Mainstreaming pollinator stewardship in view of cascading ecological, societal and economic impacts of pollinator decline

BUTTERFLY aims to significantly enhance society’s capacity to appraise, foresee, and respond to the threats posed by cascading impacts of pollinator decline. To reach that goal it will establish a test system of geographically well spread multi-actor communities across sectors for co-creating proactive pollinator restoration solutions and:

  • (1) collect, integrate, manage and share ecological and spatial information on a wide range of known and lesser known pollinators and pollination services provided for wild and cultivated plants, across Europe and selected overseas territories;
  • (2) advance the monetary and non-monetary valuation of marketed and not marketed direct and indirect ecosystem functions and services provided by pollinators, and advance ecosystem accounting;
  • (3) comprehensively model and quantify the macro-economic implications of pollinator decline and country-specific economic butterfly effects of dependencies on pollinators, and assess policy options and scenarios;
  • (4) assess how five key biomass supply chains (food/micronutrients, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, biomaterials, biomass energy) depend on pollination and co-create pollinator restoration options that increase resilience of these supply chains;
  • (5) devise, co-create, test and implement transferable tools, interactive atlases and guidelines that enable systematic mainstreaming of proactive pollinator stewardship in vulnerable sectors;
  • (6) conceive indicators for human dimensions and assess and exploit the sociocultural capacity of the concepts: ‘pollinator stewardship’, ‘eco-literacy’, ‘historical agency’ and ‘slow hope’ in reversing pollinator decline.

It will inform EU policy processes and build strategic alliances for high-level impact. The BUTTERFLY network of Living Labs will accelerate knowledge transfer and uptake of new business models and serve as breeding place for multi-actor co-creation of knowledge and sustainable solutions, paving the way to pollinator stewardship in all sectors.

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Partners: 

  • Coordinator: University of Bergen / Universitetet i Bergen (Norway)
  • International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies / Centre International de Hautes études agronomiques méditerranéennes (France)
  • Toulouse-Auzeville National College of Agricultural Education / Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Formation de l’Enseignement Agricole de Toulouse-Auzeville (France)
  • Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research / Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e. V. Müncheberg (Germany)
  • Technical University of Munich / Technische Universität München (Germany)
  • University Of Thessaly / Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλίας (Greece)
  • Aarhus University / Aarhus Universitet (Denmark)
  • Teagasc – Agriculture and Food Development Authority of Ireland (Ireland)
  • National Centre for Scientific Research / Centre national de la recherche Scientifique (France)
  • University of Eastern Finland / Itä-Suomen yliopisto (Finland)
  • Norwegian Institute for Nature Research / Norsk institutt for naturforskning (Norway)
  • CLM Research and Advice / CLM Onderzoek en Advies BV (Netherlands)
  • University of Agder / Universitetet i Agder (Norway)
  • Helmholtz-Centre for Environmental Research / Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GmbH – UFZ (Germany)
  • Stiftinga Jærmuseet (Norway)
  • Jagiellonian University in Kraków / Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie (Poland)
  • French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development / Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (France)
  • University of Milano-Bicocca / Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
  • University of Murcia / Universidad de Murcia (Spain)
  • Ghent University / Universiteit Gent (Belgium)
  • Trier University / Universität Trier (Germany)
  • University of Sussex (United Kingdom)
  • BeeLife European Beekeeping Coordination (Belgium)
  • Rifcon (Germany)
  • Globi

Website: https://butterfly-europe.eu/

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