RestPoll: Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches

RestPoll is a transdisciplinary project aiming to provide society with tools to reverse wild insect pollinator declines and to position Europe as a global leader in pollinator restoration and set the future agenda for pollinator restoration worldwide. The RestPoll consortium combines the expertise of natural and social scientists, as well as representatives of NGOs, businesses and ministries. RestPoll - together with stakeholders ranging from individual land managers to public authorities - co-designs, evaluates and refines 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 with Living Labs, which are unique hubs for experimentation, demonstration and mutual learning at various spatial scales (field, farm, landscape, European scales), in landscapes dominated by intensively managed crops or grasslands. The RestPoll consortium explores, tests, evaluates and refines cross-sectoral pollinator restoration approaches to conserve biodiversity and to benefit nature and society. Our holistic approach also aims to engage in participatory planning and the development of new business models along the food value chain by engaging through newly-developed participatory approaches at diverse social, ecological and political scales. Learning outcomes are communicated to a diverse range of regional and European partners and collaborators, which allows for making a lasting impact beyond the end of the project.

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Research Ideas and Outcomes
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2025-12-24
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https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.11.e181727
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Plant and animal studies
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RestPoll is a transdisciplinary project aiming to provide society with tools to reverse wild insect pollinator declines and to position Europe as a global leader in pollinator restoration and set the future agenda for pollinator restoration worldwide. The RestPoll consortium combines the expertise of natural and social scientists, as well as representatives of NGOs, businesses and ministries. RestPoll - together with stakeholders ranging from individual land managers to public authorities - co-designs, evaluates and refines 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 with Living Labs, which are unique hubs for experimentation, demonstration and mutual learning at various spatial scales (field, farm, landscape, European scales), in landscapes dominated by intensively managed crops or grasslands. The RestPoll consortium explores, tests, evaluates and refines cross-sectoral pollinator restoration approaches to conserve biodiversity and to benefit nature and society. Our holistic approach also aims to engage in participatory planning and the development of new business models along the food value chain by engaging through newly-developed participatory approaches at diverse social, ecological and political scales. Learning outcomes are communicated to a diverse range of regional and European partners and collaborators, which allows for making a lasting impact beyond the end of the project.

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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ES), Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University (UA), Pennsylvania State University (US), Ministry of the Environment (JP), Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (DE), University of Thessaly (GR), University of Freiburg (DE), Lund University (SE), Aarhus University (DK), Trinity College Dublin (IE), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (FR), University of Cambridge (GB), Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (CH), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE), GGD Haaglanden (NL), Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier (FR), Institute of Ecology and Botany (HU), Toulouse Mathematics Institute (FR), Bumblebee Conservation Trust (GB), Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (ES), InnovaSea Systems (United States) (US), Slagelse Hospital (DK), University of Inland Norway (NO), Istituto Sperimentale per la Frutticoltura (IT), Centre for Research on Ecology and Forestry Applications (ES), HUN-REN Centre for Ecological Research (HU), Centre International deHautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (FR), Baltic Studies Centre (LV), Alcon (United Kingdom) (GB), Kiskunság National Park (HU), Technical University of Munich (DE), University of Reading (GB), University of Gothenburg (SE), Wageningen University & Research (NL)
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