As part of PollinERA's first annual meeting on Tuesday, 18 March 2025 the project holds an open session to present some of its achievements to date. The hybrid event facilitates an opportunity to ask questions and discuss developments. It will focus on the topic of advancing environmental risk assessment (ERA) for pollinators e.g., from academia, regulatory bodies, industry or NGO’s.

When: 18 March 2025, 13:00 - 16:00 CET

Where: Online (Zoom)

Interested? Register for the event here.

Provisional agenda
Time (CET)	Agenda item	Presenter
13:00-13:25	Introduction EC Project Officer (10 min) Brief introduction to PollinERA (15 min)	Sofie Vandewoestijne (European Commission) Christopher Topping (Aarhus University)
13:25-13:50	Test protocols for acute oral and contact test in pollinator ecotoxicology	Fabio Sgolastra (University of Bologna)
13:50-14:15	An introduction of the structural alerts approach for the mode of action towards pollinators	Anna Lombardo (Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri)
14:15-14:40	Development and calibration of the formal TKTD model ('bufferGUTS') at the example of Osmia bicornis	Florian Schunck (Osnabrück University)
14:40-15:10	Break
15.10-15:30	Pesticide and pollinator co-monitoring field work 2024	Maj Rundlöf (Lund University)
15:30-16:00	General discussion	Christopher Topping (Aarhus University)

OUTCOME

As part of the agenda, a publicly accessible webinar to showcase project achievements to a broader audience. A range of core topics was covered during the session: 

• Fabio Sgolastra (University of Bologna) introduced test protocols for acute oral and contact exposure in pollinator ecotoxicology.
• Anna Lombardo (Istituto Mario Negri) provided an introduction to the structural alerts approach for the mechanism of action towards pollinators.
• Florian Schunck (Osnabrück University) presented the development and calibration of the formal TKTD (toxicokinetic/toxicodynamic) model ('bufferGUTS') using Osmia bicornis as a case study.
• The European Commission’s project officer, Sofie Vandewoestijne, also joined the meeting and shared her reflections on the project’s progress and importance. 
• Fieldwork updates were provided by Maj Rundlöf (Lund University), who presented co-monitoring activities related to pesticide use and pollinator observations conducted in Italy, Poland, and Sweden in 2024.