VALOR Project

🦋 @butterfly-project.bsky.social, a fellow Horizon Europe pollinator project, has a PhD vacancy at #ENSFEA!

Topic: “Economic evaluation of pollination services among European citizens”

📍Location: Toulouse, France
📆Deadline: August 15, 2025

Find out more here: butterfly-europe.eu/vacancies/

📣𝐎𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬!

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launches two new calls under the EU Fund for Your Action on #Pollinators.

📅 Deadline: 9 September 2025
📍 Eligible across Europe
🔗 Explore the calls: speciesgrants.iucn.org

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#VALOR has launched a new communication channel - its official website 💻
It will serve as the main hub for project updates, events, outputs, and project overview.

🌐Explore the site and stay informed: valor-project.eu

Screenshot of Butterfly's website

Butterfly is a 24 partner Horizon Europe RIA project, coordinated by me. It aims to enhance society’s capacity to appraise, foresee, and respond to the threats posed by cascading impacts of pollinator decline. Our website is now live: butterfly-europe.eu

Follow us: @butterfly-project.bsky.social

World Bee Day | United Nations The Day aims to raise awareness on the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development.

Today, on #WorldBeeDay I want to challenge everyone to leave half their garden to pollinators this summer! www.un.org/en/observanc... @butterfly-project.bsky.social @valor-project.eu @uniuef.bsky.social

What are the consequences of pollinator decline for wild plants? Here we try to find out in @valor-project.eu. Interesting observations. I never see Centaurea jacea flowers with pollen. But keep the pollinators away and the flowers are dusted white. Very popular species.

Bee declines affect more than just farmers – the entire food industry needs to step up - Connecting Research

In a blog post published by the #UniversityofReading, #VALOR coordinator Dr. Tom Breeze explains why pollinator conservation must go beyond farmers and include the entire food system.🐝

💻 Read full blog post here: research.reading.ac.uk/research-blo...

Happy #WordBeeDay! 🐝 🌼

👉Did you know bees aren’t just producing honey, they’re behind beeswax, propolis, royal jelly, and pollen too. 🧴🍯
These natural goodies are used in everything from food and skincare to medicine.

#Biodiversity

Fieldwork is comming to an end in Doñana. @valor-project.eu @curromolina.bsky.social

Happy Earth Day! 🌍

This Earth Day, we reflect on the importance of recognising how shifts in pollinators affect ecosystems, farm businesses and local communities. 🐝

#EarthDay

Tempting! Count us in🦋🤝

VALOR fieldwork continues.

Graphic announcing a call for a project technician at Universidad de La Laguna for the ongoing EU-funded VALOR project. The image includes the university's logo, a green label reading "Join ongoing project VALOR", and a photo of a hand watering young green seedlings.

📣Our partner @ull.es is seeking a project technician to contribute to ongoing project #VALOR.

📅Deadline: 2 April 2025.
🔗Find details here: www.ull.es/portal/convo...

Pleased to share that the #VALOR project was featured in the latest @wildposh.eu's bi-annual newsletter! 📮

👉Published at the beginning of March, the newsletter provided an introduction to the project, its aims, goals, and overall approach.

📰View newsletter: preview.mailerlite.io/emails/webvi...

📢Our partner @ull.es is seeking a Postdoc to work on the #VALOR project in the field of Biology Sub-area. Entomology.

📅Deadline: 2 April 2025.
🔗Find details here: www.ull.es/portal/convo...

📢 Last week, #VALOR was presented at the 4th Annual General Meeting of the @safeguard-pollinators.eu project in Mons, Belgium. 🗺️📍

Project coordinator, Tom Breeze (University of Reading), introduced #VALOR's objectives, outlined the planned activities, and highlighted the institutions involved. 🐝

🐝The #VALOR project will be presented at the conference 'Farming for Pollinators: Unlocking Economic and Ecological Gains' conducted by @ieep.eu and @eurolandorg.bsky.social, as part of the @safeguard-pollinators.eu project.

💻Learn more about the conference here: forumforag.com/events/2025-...

⚠️ A new study shows that between 19% and 36% of the EU’s economy depends on ecosystem services.

Protecting pollinators is not only vital for the environment, but for the economy too. Read more about the study here: publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/h...

🐝Unvealing the VALOR: A new @horizoneu.bsky.social project assessing the values and dependence of society on pollinators.

💻Read the full press release to learn more about the project:
www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

🐝If you want to learn about the #VALOR project's mission and objectives, take a look at @pensoft.net's blog post ⬇️

📢 Our partner institution, Jagiellonian University, started a selection procedure for Post-doc/Research Assistant Professor in Social Sciences position. A candidate will be directly contributing to the #VALOR project.

📅Deadline: 14 March 2025.
🔗Find details: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/313799

Biodiversity is the backbone of resilient farming.

In Uganda, farmers use indigenous seeds, beekeeping and agroforestry to protect crops, improve yields and restore ecosystems.

@FAO.org is supporting them to scale up these nature-based solutions 🔗 https://buff.ly/4kaQFTo

#COP16Resumed

📢Our partner @uni-freiburg.de is seeking a Postdoc to evaluate the pollination and pollinator dependency of crops and wild plants using existing datasets and to integrate various datasets as part of the VALOR project.

📅Deadline: 1 March 2025.
🔗Find details: uni-freiburg.de/stellenangeb...

📢 The University of Reading, #VALOR’s coordinating institution, has published a news article on their website about the project’s launch. The article explores the kick-off meeting in the UK as well as VALOR’s mission and objectives.🐝🌍

🔗 Find out more: www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Re...

No pollination = no food! 🚫🐝

Pollinators like bees, butterflies and birds help plants flourish, ensuring we have healthy and nutritious food.

Find out more about these unsung heroes 👉 fao.org/pollination

We are continuing our live reporting from #AGRI4POLBegins! 🐝

@valor-project.eu coordinator, Tom Breeze (University of Reading) and Sophie Thoyer (INRAE) presented the work that will be done in scope of social & economic opportunities and obstacles towards #pollinator-friendly food systems.

As we wrap up #VALORmeets2025, we extend our gratitude to everyone who participated, contributed, and shared their expertise, as well as to all who will be working on the project in the years ahead.
Over the next four years, we look forward to productive collaboration and impactful results. 💛

The final day of #VALORmeets2025 Dr. Tom Breeze led discussions on impact and dissemination. The @UNEP-WCMC team demoed the ENCORE tool, followed by Teodor Metodiev @pensoft.net presenting Safe-Hub. The day ended with #AGRI4POL and #BUTTERFLY project presentations, wrapping up successful kick-off!

#VALORmeets2025 continues!
🐝Today, we dived into focal regions. An overview of the database on crop-pollinator dependences was presented, followed by discussions on its next steps in WP2. A workshop refined plans for T2.2 & T4.4, and sessions focused on value chains (WP5) and data collection (WP4).