Horizon 2020 is the EU framework programme for research and innovation for the budgetary period 2014-2020. A number of research activities relevant for wild pollinators have taken place within this framework, including the following projects
- Safeguard - Safeguarding Safeguarding European wild pollinators
- PoshBee - Pan-European assessment, monitoring, and mitigation of stressors on the health of bees
- SPRINT - Sustainable plant protection transition
- EuropaBON - Europa Biodiversity Observation Network
- Showcase - SHOWCASing SHOWCASing synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and Ecosystem services to help farmers capitalising on native biodiversity
- Super-B (ended) - Sustainable pollination in Europe
Pollinator-relevant projects are also undertaken in the framework of BiodivERsA, the Horizon 2020 ERA-NET COFUND scheme for promoting pan-European research on biodiversity and ecosystem services. Those aim to improve our understanding of the interaction between different drivers of pollinator decline as well as modelling of scenarios for pollinator biodiversity and pollination ecosystem service:
- VOODOO project - Viral eco-evolutionary dynamics of wild and domestic pollinators under global change
- OBServ project - Open Library of Pollinator Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Pollinator research has been also supported under the Excellent Science part of H2020, through individual grants and fellowships of the European Research Council and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions to outstanding researchers on the ecological link between pollinators and plants and its importance for ecosystem functioning and food production:
- DrivenByPollinators - Driven by mutualists: how declines in pollinators impact plant communities and ecosystem functioning
- DEFPOLL - Origins of trait diversity in flowering plants: understanding interactions between plant defense and pollination using molecular, phenotypic and ecological studies of natural selection
- FLORADAPT - Plant resilience and floral adaptation to pollinator change during a range expansion
- FAB - Functional Agricultural Biodiversity: Optimising ecosystem service provision via functional agricultural biodiversity
Furthermore, under the EKLIPSE framework, the current knowledge related to the impacts of pesticide and fertiliser use on pollinator conservation measures in farmland was assessed with a view to support the best practice guidance [report].