Environmental stressors impact the health of living organisms to such an extent that global biodiversity currently faces a major crisis. Like the rest of biodiversity, pollinators are facing multiple threats, of which pesticides are a major potential driver. There is an urgent need to understand the risks posed to wild pollinators by chemical exposure, as they are a key element in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems by pollinating flowering plants.

WildPosh is a multi-actor, transdisciplinary project whose overarching mission and ambition are to significantly improve the evaluation of risk to pesticide exposure of wild pollinators and enhance the sustainable health of pollinators and pollination services in Europe.

Longevity and availability of WildPosh-produced research, materials and guidelines are of utmost importance to ensure that results are taken up by its target audiences. While providing all results openly via its web-based project portal, the project recently added a layer to impact strategy by launching its outcomes collection in the Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal. The collection serves as a repository for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners by offering research outputs, such as reports, protocols, methodologies, and research papers, along with links to project publications in other journals, will be published. RIO also allows for unconventional project results to be added to the collection, such as policy briefs, policy recommendations, factsheets, inventories, case studies and data management plans.

WildPosh has already published the first publication in the open-access collection - an abridged version of the project’s Grant Agreement. The paper is structured to provide a comprehensive overview of WildPosh’s framework, covering its objectives, ambition, background, innovation level, and detailed methodology, including multidisciplinary aspects, gender considerations, open science, and data management. It details how the project’s results contribute to specific and broader outcomes, addressing challenges, and outlining strategies for dissemination, exploitation, communication, and intellectual property management.

As the WildPosh project progresses, the RIO Collection will continue to expand, hosting various project-derived results.

Access the WildPosh topical collection in RIO here.

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