RestPoll: Restoring Pollinator habitats across European agricultural landscapes based on multi-actor participatory approaches

RestPoll is a highly transdisciplinary project aiming to provide society with tools to reverse wild pollinator declines and to position
Europe as a global leader in pollinator restoration. RestPoll will, together with stakeholders ranging from individual land managers
to governments, co-design, evaluate, and refine measures and cross-sectoral approaches to restore pollinators and their services. The
RestPoll consortium combines the expertise of natural and social scientists, NGOs, businesses, and ministries. Stakeholders along the
food value chain will be engaged through newly developed participatory approaches at diverse social, ecological, and political scales.
Central to RestPoll is the establishment of a Europe-wide network of pollinator restoration case-study areas and Living Labs (LL), which
are unique hubs for experimentation, demonstration, and mutual learning. RestPoll aims to position Europe as a global leader and set
the future agenda for pollinator restoration worldwide. The transdisciplinary RestPoll consortium will develop, test, evaluate and refine
cross-sectoral pollinator restoration approaches to conserve biodiversity and to benefit nature and society. To restore wild pollinator
diversity and their vital pollination services, RestPoll will co-design measures with different stakeholders (ranging from individual
land managers to governments) at various spatial scales (field, farm, landscape, European scales), in agricultural landscapes that are
dominated by intensively managed crops or grasslands. Our holistic approach, informed by cutting-edge transdisciplinary research, will
integrate stakeholders and actors at multiple levels as well as natural and social science disciplines to engage in participatory planning
and development of new business models. Learning outcomes will be disseminated by regional to European multi-actor partners and
collaborators, which will ensure impact beyond the end of the project.