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Insect Pollinators Initiative

Awards, facts and figures

Timing

2010 - 2014

Can I apply for a grant?

No, the nine projects being funded under this initiative have already been announced.

Budget

This programme has a budget of up to £10m, with £1·5m from NERC.

Programme awards

The projects funded under this initiative are:

Sustainable pollination services for UK crops (237KB)- Dr Koos Biesmeijer, University of Leeds

Modelling systems for managing bee disease: the epidemiology of European foulbrood (250KB)- Dr Giles Budge, Food & Environment Research Agency

Investigating the impact of habitat structure on queen and worker bumblebees in the field (214KB)- Dr Claire Carvell, NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

An investigation into the synergistic impact of sublethal exposure to industrial chemicals on the learning capacity and performance of bees (202KB)- Dr Chris Connolly, University of Dundee

Linking agriculture and land use change to pollinator populations (166KB)- Professor Bill Kunin, University of Leeds

Urban pollinators: their ecology and conservation (204KB)- Professor Jane Memmott, University of Bristol

Impact and mitigation of emergent diseases on major UK insect pollinators (158KB)- Dr Robert Paxton, Queen's University of Belfast

Unravelling the impact of the mite Varroa destructor on the interaction between the honeybee and its viruses (193KB)- Dr Eugene Ryabov, University of Warwick

Can bees meet their nutritional needs in the current UK landscape? (195KB)- Dr Geraldine Wright, Newcastle University