As part of ongoing efforts to support meaningful knowledge exchange, discover barriers to implementation and identify opportunities, AGRI4POL is organising a dedicated workshop and two field visits in Dijon, France (8-10 July 2025). The primary aim of these events is to co-develop sampling methods and procedural protocols for all field tasks under Work Packages 3 (Management options to enhance pollinator benefits on farms) and 4 (Multifunctional ecological infrastructure (EI) for pollinators and co-benefits from field to landscape scales).
The two-day workshop will bring together principal researchers, postdoctoral scientists, PhD students and field staff from across the aGRI4POL consortium and beyond. It is designed to facilitate alignment across research teams, share methodological approaches and define protocols for fieldwork implementation.
The agenda includes WP3 and WP4 task objective presentations, timeline and scientific or practical links to other tasks in these WPs. The workshop is organised by the coordinating institution - INRAE in Dijon, France and is being attended by several project institutional partners: Paisatges Vius, Living Landscapes in Catalan (LL), Swiss Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (Agroscope), Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), University of Freiburg (UFR), University of Reading (UREAD), University of Padova (UNIPD), Wageningen University and Research (WUR), and University of Mons (UMONS).
The workshop will also feature a presentation from the Horizon Europe project TRANSFORM, which aims to develop innovative crop rotations, a nature-based solution to support agriculture in its adaptation to the challenges of climate change. And ANR I-SITE-BFC, Transform project, which aims to deliver sustainable agriculture through transformational conflict science.
To support the development of field protocols, two site visits have been scheduled.
- 8 July: A pre-workshop visit led by INRAE, where members of the WUR team will explore calcareous grassland sites providing contextual insights for planning for future fieldwork.
- 10 July: Participants will visit the U2E experimental farm at the INRAE Centre of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. This visit will include an introduction to the CA-SYS project, a large-scale agroecological experiment launched in 2018 by INRAE in collaboration with farming organisations and farmers, that aims to develop and evaluate pesticide-free farming systems at scales relevant to real-world agriculture.
In the scope of these activities, AGRI4POL will explore synergies with the Horizon 2020 project SHOWCASE, which aims to exhibit synergies between agriculture, biodiversity and Ecosystem services to help farmers capitalise on native biodiversity.
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