Inhalt: News

2024 May 3

During their guest visit at the JKI, Dr. Kamau, Dr. Sanda, Dr. Dassou and Dr. Coulibaly participate in laboratory and field work activities at the Institute for Bee Protection. This is a great opportunity to discuss standardization of methods used in their four African home countries.

Window traps can help monitor pollinators in trees during flowering

Dr. Alkassab demonstrates the setup of bumblebee colonies used for an ecotoxicological field experiment in strawberry fields

2024 April 15

African and German collaborators together with invited guests came together for a week-long workshop held at the JKI in Braunschweig. Talks by the participants and break-out groups on topics related to the overall scheme of the project accelerate lively discussions and further steps towards a joint proposal on bee monitoring and pollination in the four participating African countries.

Collaboration partners from the four African and four German partner institutions as well as guests from the University of Würzburg, Stuttgart State Museum of Natural History, FAO and the Service Centre for the Rural Area Rheinhessen-Nahe-Hunsrück (DLR-RNH) shared knowledge and worked on ideas for a bee monitoring to be established in Sub-Saharan Africa

2024 April 9

German and African research partners meet for the first time as a group at the DFG status workshop in Bonn. The objectives and further steps of the PLAN4BEE project are presented to other participants via a poster and a short talk.

The PLAN4BEE team presents their project to the other 100 workshop participants. From left to right: Abdulrahim Alkassab, Katharina Stein, Anke Dietzsch, Regina Pohle-Fröhlich, Lucy Kamau, Kirsten Traynor, Anicet Dassou, Mazi Sanda, Drissa Coulibaly, Jakob Eckert

Anke Dietzsch presents project objectives and challenges to Ecology Session participants

2024 March 1

PLAN4BEE officially starts!

All collaborators meet online to discuss the upcoming workshops in Bonn and Braunschweig, and the visits of all African partners to the participating German institutions in Braunschweig, Berlin, Potsdam, Stuttgart-Hohenheim and Krefeld.

2023 August 30

The proposal “PLAN4BEE” is accepted for funding by the DFG as one of 22 proposals in the field of “Sustainable Intensification of Agriculture” in the framework of the initiative “African-German Scientific Exchange”.

2023 February 28

Ten researchers from five countries and eight different institutions have submitted the proposal “PLAN4BEE” to initiate an African-German collaboration to work on plant-pollinator interactions, their stressors and management strategies in sub-Saharan Africa.