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Beespoke

Leeuwarden/Fryslan was the European Capital of Culture in 2018. Thanks to this event, we were able to successfully create a project about bees, first together with Germany. This resul
Insect pollination is worth €15 Billion in the EU, but the number of wild pollinators is decreasing due to loss of flower-rich habitats. As a response the EU adopted a pollinator initiative in 2018. The overall objective is to increase the number of pollinators and crop pollination on local and landscape scale by providing new expertise, tools and financial knowledge to land managers and policy makers, in order to create more sustainable and resilient agro-ecosystems.
BEESPOKE brings a wide range of partners together – from policy makers, research institutes, advisory and end users – to develop new products and approaches to increase the diversity of insect pollinators and crop yields by 10%. We will develop bespoke seed mixes and habitat management guidelines to support the suite of pollinators required for 14 crop types on 72 demonstration sites.
Sites for each crop will showcase best management practices, and training materials will be developed for biodiversity monitoring and for measuring pollination. The same type of agro-ecosystems occur across the NSR and transnational cooperation will give economies of scale for development of these novel tools.
This approach will enable land managers to adopt pollinator management as a routine practice, fostering a

None ongoing project; project is financed by Interreg NSR.

The development of the vegetation of the insect border has been photographed by area coordinator Tjitske Dijkstra in the summer of 2020. A timelapse has been made of this for each border. This way we can see how the edges have developed. The timelaps are merged into 1 movie which can be seen by clicking on the picture see: https://www.waadrane.frl/beespoke/.

The project is the sequel to Silence of the Bees (Lwd/Fryslan 2018) and, thanks to this history, has not encountered any real problems.

Beespoke will enable land managers to adopt pollinator management as a routine practice, fostering a bottom-up, land manager approach, ensuring a continuing improvement of crop pollination by insects.