Safeguard is an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project that aims to substantially contribute to reversing the loss of wild pollinators across Europe by increasing our understanding of the direct and indirect drivers of pollinator declines and their environmental, economic, and societal impacts and delivering an integrated assessment framework as a basis for a portfolio of effective policy and practice solutions.
Safeguard’s goal is to inspire the development of management and policy guidelines for the public and private sectors to safeguard wild pollinators and the benefits they provide. Acknowledging that global change requires global solutions Safeguard includes Chinese partners to address the topic in a different geographical and climatic context.
Objectives
- Re-assess the status and trends of European wild pollinators
- Predict the impacts of drivers and pressures on European wild pollinators
- Quantify consequences for multiple values, including pollination and co-benefits associated with shifts in pollinator communities
- Quantify the effectiveness of multiple interventions to benefit pollinators
- Co-develop an integrated assessment framework able to assess and address pollinator declines
- Inform national, European, and global policies by providing relevant and timely evidence
- Increase awareness and knowledge of wild pollinators and their societal values
Partners
Safeguard unites an interdisciplinary team of researchers, NGOs, and industry and policy experts from 25 institutions spread across 14 European countries and China to contribute to Europe’s capacity to reverse the losses of wild pollinators.
Project coordinator
Prof. Dr. Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
Project Coordinator
Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
(Zoology III), University of Würzburg
(Zoology III), University of Würzburg
Project duration
2021
2025
This project receives funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101003476.
You can explore all Safeguard's results on the open-access collection in the Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal. The collection hosts project papers, published in different journals and linked through their metadata and will further expand to a one-stop knowledge hub, hosting a range of outputs, reports, protocols, methodologies, and research papers.
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