Just launched: VALOR’s open-access knowledge hub for pollinator conservation

Pollinators underpin much of the food we eat and the ecosystems we depend on, yet the ripple effects of pollinator decline – from flower to fork and beyond – remain poorly understood by many of the actors whose decisions affect them. VALOR (VALues and dependence of society on pollinatORs) is a multi-actor project working to co-develop a comprehensive, systems-based approach that reveals these cascading impacts, empowering landowners, businesses, and policymakers to better understand their relationship with pollinators. The project will produce a suite of co-developed tools enabling these actors to assess their own risks and exposure, replicate VALOR’s methods, and apply its models directly.

To ensure its outputs remain openly accessible and easy to build on well beyond the project’s lifespan, VALOR has opened a collection in the Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO) journal. The collection is designed to serve as a hub for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners, gathering both conventional outputs – such as research papers, reports, and protocols – and unconventional ones, including policy briefs, methodologies, deliverables and project reports.

The first publication in the collection is an abridged version of VALOR’s Description of Action (DoA). The paper lays out the project’s framework in full: its objectives, ambition, and background, along with a detailed account of its methodology, including the project’s multidisciplinary approach, open science and data management practices. It also explains how VALOR’s results are expected to feed into broader outcomes, the challenges the project aims to address, and its strategies for dissemination, exploitation, communication, and intellectual property management. The DoA gives readers a transparent, citable entry point into the project’s full scope. As VALOR progresses, the RIO collection will continue to grow, hosting the project’s future outputs.

Access the VALOR topical collection in RIO.

VALOR receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101181169. Views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the EU nor REA can be held responsible for them.