2020 EDITION
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Follow them on Social Media https://www.instagram.com/beethechangeproject/?hl=en https://www.facebook.com/beethechange.heathershoneybees/ |
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Anna Gadecka |
Bee saving paper |
Land Management Practices |
100% compostable material designed to save exhausted bees. |
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Visit their website : https://beesavingpaper.com/ and follow them on : https://www.instagram.com/bee_saving_paper/ |
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Dr. Isabelle Ays |
Flower Power |
Land Management Practices |
Flower Power system combines flower strips and fallow land with windbreak shrubs, water harvesting elements and shady solar panels. |
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Visit their website: https://goldbecksolar.com/en/ |
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Calon Wen Dairy Cooperative |
Pasture for Pollinators |
Land Management Practices |
How dairy farmers can manage their forage resources to conserve and enhance pollinator populations. |
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Visit their website: https://www.calonwen-cymru.com/ |
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Vladislava Iliqnova Kazakova-Ioani |
Together we bring back nature |
Land Management Practices |
Development of beekeeping with funds provided by the competition.Assistance to encourage beekeepers to raise bees for pollination of plants. And much more to help the increase and protection of bees and beekeepers |
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Mark Hayward |
A Million Bees on farm |
Land Management Practices |
Dingley Dell Pork : A Favourable balance starts with the diversity of plants. |
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Visit their website: https://www.dingleydell.com/ |
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Galbusera Luciano Triangeli |
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The project aims to create a network of various flowery fields for biodiversity in Northern Italy to forage and protect bees and wild pollinators in intensive agricultural areas.
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Visit their website: https://www.galbusera.it/ |
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Amara Nelwa
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Salone Forest Sweet |
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Vision to eliminate poverty in impoverished and marginalized rural communities in, by taking an integrated approach by working across sectors of apiculture bee farming as sustainable livelihood. |
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Pollinature GmbH Holger Thissen |
Pollination service with mason bees |
Land Management Practices |
Pollination specialist Pollinature offers mason bees for pollination of cherries, apples, pears and other fruit crops throughout Germany, France, Italy and Switzerland. |
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Visit their website: https://pollinature.net |
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Health Protection Group of the Ardennes' bees (GDSA) |
Development of a conservation station for black bees (Apis mellifera mellifera) |
Land Management Practices |
The project of preservation of the black bee in “Domaine de Belval” study area consists in breeding and selecting an endogenous bee which can survive independently in its natural environment. |
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Visit their website: www.domaine-belval.org |
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GS Group |
Sustainable agricultural activity in several areas in Murcia |
Land Management Practices |
Achieve a sustainable agricultural activity in serveral areas in Murcia of high agricultural intensity and that is also a great pole of economic activity in the region. |
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More info on: www.gsgrupo.com |
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Igor Kurdin
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Amohive |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
Amohive provides smart beehives with sensors, solar battery, gps and lightweight construction can measure intensity and effectivity of crop pollination. |
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Visit their website https://www.amohive.com/ Follow them on www.facebook.com/amohive |
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Geert Steelant |
Using the predator mite against the Varroa mite |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
Method of fighting the Varroa mite with the predatormite Stratiolealaps Sscimitus. |
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Visit their website: https://www.delachendebijenkast.be/ |
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Daniele Melis |
HiveGuard |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
HiveGuard is a device that combines a camera and an image recognition algorithm which allows for automatic hive monitoring, it detects the type of cell according to their shape and siwe and the infected cells by their colour. |
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Visit their website: https://hiveguard.it/ |
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Bee standards Sergio Saez-Guillen |
Drumapic honey drums cleaner |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
We have created DrumApic, an affordable and convenient technology that cleans instantly honey drums, in a manner that allows re using them by preserving internal coatingm saving water and work hours. |
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Visit their website : https://www.beestandards.com |
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Grant Morgan |
Vatorex |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
Each brood comb is heated in succession via the wax foundations embedded heating coils which is an effective killing power against varroa and the viruses they carry. |
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Visit their website: https://www.vatorex.com/ |
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3 Bee s.r.l Niccolò Calandri |
Sustainable Pollination |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
3Bee is developing the first platform in Europe for coordinating the provision of pollination services from beekeepers to farmers.
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Visit their website : https://www.3bee.it/en/ |
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Nicolas Betti Nurares |
NOVARROX the natural and biological solution to the Varroa destructor |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
The product NOVARROX acts as a natural pesticide for bees used in the treatment of Varroatosis |
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2019 EDITION
Pro Planet Apples from Lake Constance and AI technology Apisfero winning projects of the 2019 European Bee Award
In a ceremony hosted by MEP Franc Bogoviฤ at the European Parliament in Brussels, the VI edition of the European Bee Award acknowledges the great commitment of private and public organisations, as well as the involvement of the research community, to enhance pollinators’ wellbeing and support bee-friendly farming practices in Europe.
The European Bee Award is a contest initially created by ELO and CEMA (European Agricultural Machinery Association). Since 2014, the award has highlighted innovative projects from all across Europe aiming at the protection of pollinators, among others in farmed environment. On the 10th of December 2019, MEP Frank BOGOVIC hosted the ceremony award in Brussels at the European Parliament. The ceremony gathered over 100 people to celebrate the winners of the 2019 edition which received 36 applications from 11 different countries.
Former European Commissioner for R&D and Environment Janez Potocnik opened the ceremony, stressing that “it is really hard to imagine a future without the bees, let’s respect and treat them in a responsible way, the way they deserve due to all the good things they are providing to us humans and the rest of nature.” On behalf of ELO, Alain Scriban awarded the first category prize to the Lake Constance Foundation in Germany for their project, Pro Planet Apples, from Lake Constance. They have developed a way to encourage apple growers in the region to implement sustainable pollinator protection. The project has seen a significant impact and positive results whilst demonstrating that it has tremendous capacity for scalability.
Gilles Dryancour, honorary president of CEMA, handed the second category prize to the Italian team of Apisfero for their project, Bee Varroa Scanner: a high-resolution scan using artificial intelligence to count Varroa mite in the hive helping beekeepers in fighting this scourge widely affecting honey bees in Europe. Dr. Michael GARRATT, President of the jury for the second year, gave the special mention of the jury to ‘Green-roofed bus shelters in Utrecht.’ They stood out for their innovative and original method of providing shelter for pollinators and feeding them in urban areas, where their natural habitats are usually scarce.
If you want to find out more about the winners of the 2019 European Bee Award, please refer to Countryside magazine n°184.
From all the 36 applications of these edition, the following ones wanted to share their projects:
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Sarah Baker |
Increasing wild pollinators on your farm |
Land Management Practices |
Increasing wild pollinators on your farm: a low cost approach was developed to help farmers make simple management changes to maximise food, nesting and overwintering habitats on their land. |
https://glnp.org.uk/your-land/pollinators/increasing-wild-pollinators-on-your-farm.php |
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Cathy Horsley |
West Country Buzz project |
Land Management Practices |
The West Country Buzz project is working with farmers and volunteers to increase the area of suitable habitat and its connectivity across farmland for rare bumblebees and other pollinators. |
Sebastian Gorecki |
Intelligent Hives |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
Intelligent Hives supports beekeepers in managing their apiaries by providing an economical and easy-to-use system that allows them to monitor condition of bees and warn of anomalies inside the hive. |
Oleg Klochko
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Amohive project |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
Amohive provides intelligent beekeeping products - smart beehive as a beekeeper assistant, capability for tracing the origin and preventing the falsification of honey, pollination intensity control, honey bee research, etc.
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Bogdan Iordache |
Apiary Book |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
Our mission is to help beekeepers from around the world to make better informed decisions by providing a complete solution for management, monitoring and analyzing the data of bee colonies and environmental factors that affect their health. |
Adriana Díaz |
10 years of successful chemical-free beekeeping with heat treatment against Varroa - it works well! |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
Our innovative heat treatment technology enables beekeepers to care for their bees without any chemicals during the whole year. This tested approach is effective against the Varroa mites - It works! |
Michael Rubinigg |
LKO-Warndienst |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
LKO-Warndienst offers a freely accessible, web-based monitoring and risk assessment tool for crop producers and beekeepers, aimed to optimise integrated pest management and to improve both plant and bee health. |
Mihail mladenov |
Beevolute |
Application of innovative technological solutions |
Curious how deep learning and neural networks can help in beekeeping? Learn more about the “System for monitoring bee families and contributing to their development” on www.beevolute.com |
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2018 EDITION
Protecting the bees: A holistic land management approach and an innovative sowing machine
are the winners of this year’s edition of the European Bee
MEP Karl-Heinz Florenz hosted the ceremony at the European Parliament in Brussels and in the presence of EU Director General for Environment Daniel Calleja Crespo, this year’s prize was awarded to a Spanish project focusing on holistic land management practices and an innovative sowing machine for field margins.
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2017 EDITION
Solitary bees’ protection and bee-friendly spraying technology winner projects of the IV edition of the European Bee Award
In a ceremony hosted by MEP Franc Bogoviฤ at the European Parliament in Brussels and in presence of EU Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society Mariya Gabriel, this year’s award celebrates in particular the great commitment of private and public organisations, as well as individual initiatives, to pollinators’ wellbeing and bee-friendly farming practices in Europe.
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