DATE/TIME:
Day 1: Sunday, April 20
Day 2: Monday, April 21
TOPICS:
- Presentations from members’ work
- Past projects
- On-going ring tests
- Publications done
- Risk assessment of wild bees
LOCATION:
CREA-API – Council for Agricultural Research and Economics
Honey Bee and Silkworm Research Unit
Via di Saliceto 80
40128 Bologna
Italy
MAP:
ONLINE PARTICIPATION:
Time zone: Europe/Brussels
Video call link: N/A
TRAVEL:
You can reach CREA-API from the airport by taxi (about 20€), or from the centre (and from the Hotel Palace) by taking the bus 27, 97, 98 and getting out at the stop “De Giovanni”.
For those who have already been here, please get off the stop before the one you used in the past (De Giovanni instead of Caserme Rosse) because the former is temporarily inactive due to a construction site on the street.
REGISTRATION:
Registration deadline: Monday, January 31
Registration fee: N/A
WHO CAN REGISTER:
COLOSS members only!
COLOSS is open to any scientific professional (e.g. researchers, veterinarians, extension agents) interested in the well-being of bees.
To request COLOSS membership, please go HERE; please note that the approval process may take several days, so request membership well in advanced of the workshop registration deadline.
SCHEDULE:
Session 1 –COMMON ONGOING WORK AND WORK FROM MEMBERS
- 09:00-09:15 Registration and Welcome words
- 09:15-09:35 News from the Regulatory and Political Framework related to pesticides in Europe/ OECD updates – Daniela Grossar, Lukas Jeker, Noa Simon
- 09:35-09:55 Updates on the publication of the ring testing of natural mortality – Julie Fourrier/Fabrice Requier
- 09:55-10:15 Method development to assess the effects of entomopathogenic nematodes on bees – Daniela Grossar, Lars Straub, Lukas Jeker
- 10:15-10:35 Trap or haven: Assessing the spray drift deposition of insecticides into ower strips – Lukas Jeker and Daniela Grossar
- 10:35-11:00 Coffee/snack break
Session 2 – ONGOING WORK FROM MEMBERS
- 11:00-11:20 Decoding the neural impact of neonicotinoids: How these pesticides disrupt bee behaviour – Albrecht Haase
- 11:20–11:40 Studying the combined effects of neonicotinoids and fungicides on honeybees and wild bees – Ricarda Scheiner
- 11:40-12:00 Insignia-Europe results – Fani Hatjina
- 12:00-12:20 Presentation of the EU Pollinator Hub – Noa Simon
- 12:20-12:40 How to collect nectar and pollen straight from owers and obtain ready-to-use samples – Aleksandra Splitt and Jacek Jachula
- 12:40-12:50 Pesticidovigilance – Ten years of the honeybee poisoning incidents diagnostics program in Poland – Tomasz Kiljanek
- 12:50-13:00 Preparation for the collaborative workshop in the afternoon
- 13:00-14:00 Lunch
Session 3 – BRAINSTORMING ON FUTURE COMMON WORK
- 14:00-15:30 First part of the workshop – Update on the EU Risk Assessment of Pesticides on Wild Bees and Concepts of Risk Assessment + Q&A. Possibilities for new standardisation methods – Solitary bees eld trials.
- 15:30-16:00 Coffee/snack break
- 16:00-17:30 2nd part of the workshop – Methodological discussion: Reprotoxicity
- 17:30-18:00 Concluding remarks from the workshop
- 20:00 Social Dinner
Time Session 5 – RISK ASSESSMENT SCHEME FOR WILD BEES
- 09:00-11:00 From ideas to action – working together to bring bee ecotoxicology to the next level.
- 10:30-11:00 Coffee/snack break
Session 6 – PREPARATION FOR WORK IN 2025
- 11:00-12:30 Depending on the activities and discussions of the two days, we will identify the work programme for 2025 Administrative issues from Apitox
- 12:30-14:00 Lunch
QUESTIONS?
If you have questions concerning the workshop, please reach out:
Workshop Host – Noa Simon Delso (simon@bee-life.eu)