Resilient beekeeping

Call Updates

Feb 8, 2023 8:03:50 PM

CALL UPDATE: FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS

EVALUATION results

Published: 16 June 2021

Deadline: 01 September 2022

Available budget:

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

May 25, 2022 3:41:32 PM

CALL UPDATE: GENERALISED FEEDBACK AFTER STAGE 1

GENERALISED FEEDBACK for successful applicants after STAGE 1

In order to best ensure equal treatment, successful stage 1 applicants do not receive the evaluation summary reports (ESRs) for their proposals, but this generalised feedback with information and tips for preparing the full proposal. 

Information & tips

Main shortcomings found in the stage 1 evaluation of topic HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-03-two-stage:

• To ensure a balanced portfolio covering biotic and abiotic factors, grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking but at least also to fund one project within the biotic stressors (i.e. diseases) that is the highest ranked, and one project highest ranked within the abiotic stressors, if the applications attain all thresholds. Proposals should indicate what the stressors addressed are (i.e. biotic, abiotic, both) at the beginning of the text.
• The description of the foreseen methodology does not always present a sufficient level of details, e.g. how the methodology covers the proposal’s objectives, details of the procedures and the reasoning behind, etc… The methodology should be better described, including sufficient details.
• Some of the expected outcomes set out in the call text are addressed superficially, providing only general information on how they will be achieved without sufficient detail, quantification and/or justification. Proposals should correctly and precisely (not in a superficial way) address the relevant expected outcomes set out in the call text, sufficiently explaining how the results expected to be generated by the project may lead towards them in an adequate and consistent way.
• The proposal should follow the proposals’ template. The proposal should address criteria and sub-criteria in the appropriate place in the proposal, to make it clear to the evaluators that the issues have been addressed.

In your stage 2 proposal, you have a chance to address or clarify these issues.

Please bear in mind that your full proposal will now be evaluated more in-depth and possibly by a new group of outside experts.

Please make sure that your full proposal is consistent with your short outline proposal. It may NOT differ substantially. The project must stay the same.

May 20, 2022 11:24:36 AM

CALL UPDATE: FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS

EVALUATION results

Published: 06 October 2021

Deadline: 15 February 2022

Available budget:

• HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-03-two-stage : €12.000.000,00

In accordance with General Annex F of the Work Programme, the evaluation of the first-stage proposals was made looking only at the criteria ‘Excellence’ and ‘Impact’. The threshold for both criteria was 4. The overall threshold (applying to the sum of the two individual scores) was set for each topic/type of action with separate call-budget-split at a level that allowed the total requested budget of proposals admitted to stage 2 be as close as possible to 3 times the available budget (and not below 2.5 times the budget):

• HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-03-two-stage (Resilient beekeeping): 8 points

The results of the evaluation are as follows: 

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

 For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation_en

Feb 25, 2022 9:42:10 AM

PROPOSAL NUMBERS

Call HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-two-stage_stage1 has closed on the 15th of February 2022.

21 proposals have been submitted.                                                                                                   

The breakdown per topic is:

• HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-03-two-stage: 13

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in May 2022. 

Oct 28, 2021 12:00:06 AM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-03-two-stage(HORIZON-RIA)

Resilient beekeeping

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-03-two-stage

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: Biodiversity and ecosystem services (HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-two-stage)
Type of action: HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: two-stage
Planned opening date: 28 October 2021
Deadline dates:
15 February 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time
01 September 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

Topic description
ExpectedOutcome:
A successful proposal will support the objective of the biodiversity strategy and the farm to fork strategy to transition to fair, healthy and resilient European agriculture, and contribute to preserve biodiversity and strengthen the resilience and sustainability of specific farming sectors. It will contribute to the impacts related to a better knowledge of the biodiversity decline and of the interrelations between biodiversity, health and climate, as well as to the practices in agriculture supporting biodiversity and other ecosystem services.

The proposed projects are expected to contribute to a better understanding of agroecosystems practices that can sustain honeybees, to enhanced preservation of honeybee genetic resources and their use in breeding, and to mitigation of impacts of beekeeping activities on wild pollinators.

• Improved resilience of beekeeping against stresses like climate change, nutritional stresses, pathogens and chemicals;
• Support to stakeholders associated with beekeeping, trade, services, monitoring and control through increased knowledge on honeybee immunity and nutrition;
• Improved capacity to deal with relevant honeybee pathogens;
• Robust evidence-based understanding of the importance of diversity within honeybee populations;
• Improved understanding of the impacts of beekeeping activities on wild pollinators and strengthened capacity to address them.

Scope:

Resilience of beekeeping is important both for pollination services and for the honeybee production sector. Bees are subject to numerous biotic and abiotic stressors (e.g. loss of feed resources, exposure to various chemicals, invasive species and/or pathogens) and the impact of climate change on honeybees requires further attention. The biology of honeybees, including immunity and nutrition is still poorly understood, as is the role of genetic diversity within honeybee populations and interactions between honeybees and their environment.

The proposals will address relevant areas of research as appropriate:

• Develop technologies and strategies for beekeepers to adapt to climate change and possibly contribute to mitigate climate change, including the design of novel beehives equipment, technologies and management protocols;
• Perform baseline studies on immunity, health, nutrition, and genetic diversity and resistance of honeybees in line with their biological performance;
• Develop tools for assessing potential impacts of beekeeping on wild pollinators at landscape scale, strategies for mitigating those impacts, and tools tailored to public authorities for planning and decision-making with regard to optimal deployment of bee hives at local or regional level, taking into account among others nutrition requirements and landscape factors;
• Address at least Varroa destructor and possibly other honeybee mites, as well as Aethina tumida
• Review the key biological mechanisms of Varroa destructor, which determine its multiplication in a hive, including its potential connection with other pathogens, and identify possible novel areas to target with potential new control methods, including bee genetic resistance, especially in light of the experience and limitations of the attempts to fight it in Europe in the last decades;
• Assess the vulnerability and preparedness of the EU honeybee-keeping sector in relation to Aethina tumida and Tropilaelaps spp. which are exotic or largely exotic to the EU (A.tumida is present in southern Italy), scrutinise strategies and practices in other countries (outside of EU) where these appeared recently, identify successful practices and suggest mitigation strategies for and by the beekeepers to live with these pathogens, in case of their eventual spread in the EU.