[Pollinator] Insect Pollinators Initiative - the £10 million project

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Insect Pollinators Initiative meeting announced

29 May 2009
Bee pollinating a flower
A town meeting has been announced for stakeholders interested in taking 
part in the Insect Pollinators Initiative - the £10 million project 
aiming to tackle insect pollinator decline.

The Insect Pollinators Initiative will fund research to understand 
better the threats to insect pollinators and to develop appropriate 
mitigation strategies. This initiative was launched in April by the 
Wellcome Trust, the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research 
Council, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the 
Natural Environment Research Council and the Scottish Government.


A call for expressions of interest will be issued at the town meeting 
on 3 July and interested stakeholders are encouraged to attend. The 
meeting will outline the nature and scope of the call for proposals.

The funders particularly encourage proposals from multidisciplinary 
research groups. This may involve collaborations between established 
pollinator researchers and researchers working in other relevant areas, 
such as virology, invertebrate disease transmission, epidemiology and 
modelling. Collaborations involving beekeepers are also welcomed. 
Systems-based approaches will be important, along with state-of-the-art 
technologies and methods.

For full details about the town meeting and further eligibility 
information, please see the Insect Pollinators Initiative webpage.=0
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If you would like to attend the town meeting on 3 July, please complete 
the registration form [Word 48KB].

A draft meeting programme [Word 28KB] is also available.