RESEARCH PROJECT
Understanding Pesticide-Pollinator Interactions to Support EU Environmental Risk Assessment and Policy (PollinERA)
KEY POINTS- One system risk assessment
- Long-term monitoring scheme for pollinators and pesticides
Updated: June 2025
Project overview
Project start:
January 2025
Ending:
December 2028
Project manager:
Alina Koch
Funded by:
EU-Horizon
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Global goals
- 2. Zero hunger
- 15. Life on land
Short summary
PollinERA aims to reverse pollinator population declines and reduce the harmful impacts of pesticides. The project will achieve that by moving the evaluation of the risk and impacts of pesticides and suggestions for mitigation beyond the current situation of assessing single pesticides in isolation on honey bees to an ecologically consistent assessment of effects on insect pollinators using a systems approach.
Project lead
This project is led by Prof. Christopher John Topping at Aarhus University (cjt@ecos.au.dk).
Main contributions from SLU
- Development of multi-residue pesticide analysis methods for various pollinators and exposure matrices
- Quantification of pesticide concentrations in these matrices
- Development of an indicator (PollSPEAR) to assess pesticide effects on pollinators
