Advancing Knowledge and Environmental Risk Assessment for Bees and Other Insect Pollinators (EU Pollinators Week)

Event posted by Coline Laurent
Wednesday, 29 November 2023 - 11:00 to 12:30 (Europe/Brussels) (Europe/Brussels)
Online

This online scientific conference is organised as part of the 2023 EU Pollinator Week held from 28 to 30 November. 

Researchers from different EU projects and Risk Assessment Agencies will provide an update on the state of the art of their activities. The conference will include a presentation from scientist Ignasi Bartomeus on the EU-funded project SAFEGUARD

Moderator: Noa Simón Delso, Scientific Director, BeeLife

Speakers:

  • Safeguarding European wild pollinators: Trends, impacts and conservation - Ignasi Bartomeus, EBD-CSIC, Spain
  • News from the SPRING project - David Roy, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK
  • B-THENET project to support the beekeeping sector - Giovanni Formato, IZSLT, Italy
  • Combined effects of pesticides and other stressors on solitary bees - Jordi Bosch, CREAF, Spain
  • Update on the EFSA activities on risk assessment of pesticides on insect pollinators - Csaba Szentes, EFSA, EU
  • Update on the ECHA guidance for the risk assessment of bees and other arthropod pollinators - Jaana Laitinen, ECHA, EU