The EU-funded Safeguard project has just launched the Safeguard Knowledge Exchange Hub (Safe-Hub), an integrative platform facilitating access to new and exciting knowledge on pollinators at national and European levels.

In an effort to increase awareness and knowledge of wild pollinators and their societal values, the EU-funded Safeguard project has launched the open-source platform Safeguard Knowledge Exchange Hub – Safe-Hub. The hub aims to facilitate pollinator data and knowledge sharing, support recommendations, and co-design solutions for wild pollinator decline.

Shaped by the findings of Safeguard and other relevant pollinator projects, networks and initiatives, Safe-Hub navigates harmonised and standardised data on pollinator health, monitoring, distribution, and conservation, along with newly developed and existing data and tools. It offers various tools and resources, such as pollinator species distribution maps, general information about pollinators, a knowledge library, main Safeguard outputs, links to relevant initiatives and educational materials, an events calendar, and many more. This aims to establish an integrative platform that facilitates access to currently fragmented knowledge on pollinators at national and European levels, which is expected to expand with more resources over the next years.

This launch coincides with the third anniversary of the Safeguard project, which aims to reverse wild pollinator decline. Using state-of-the-art models to identify emerging threats, consortium members work with stakeholders to develop and test new approaches that benefit pollinators from field to landscape scales across agricultural, natural and urban systems. Safeguard is working on creating an integrated assessment framework and tools that incorporate multiple types of evidence to prevent pollinator decline and direct mitigation strategies at the local, national and EU levels. All Safeguard outputs and other innovative knowledge from external resources will be added to the Safe-Hub when available.

The Safeguard Knowledge Exchange Hub is now live and accessible at safeguard-pollinators.eu.

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Safeguard Knowledge Exchange Hub (Safe-Hub) is developed within the Safeguard project, which receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No.101003476. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the EU nor the EC can be held responsible for them.