Engaging stakeholders - Knowledge exchanges within the EU Beekeeping Sector
The EU beekeeping sector is very diverse with many organizations associated with it. We undertook a study to investigate and understand the structure of the EU bee keeping sector.
We carried out in-depth of interviews with people representing organizations belonging to the EU Bee partnership, asking them to provide details of organizations / individuals they interacted with for technical knowledge. In total 41 interviews were undertaken (January and April 2020). From these interviews, we have begun to map networks for technical knowledge exchanges.
Our analysis indicated there are several organizations that are well-connected, with links to 3 or more other organizations. Of these organizations, EFSA, BeeLife and PAN would seem to be central. EFSA and BeeLife seem to have prominent positions sought for their knowledge. PAN has numerous links, but these are both ‘receiving’, and ‘giving’ ties suggesting an influencing position, sought both for their knowledge as well as disseminating it. There several other interconnected veterinarian and technical advisory organizations e.g. EU Reference Laboratory for Bee Health (ANSES), French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and APIMONIDA.
Our analysis presented here is not a complete network analysis of the EU beekeeping sector, it represents the networks of the people we interviewed. However, it has highlighted some of the key organizations that B-GOOD will endeavor to engage with for expert knowledge, but who are also likely to be key in influencing honey bee related technical and policy developments within Europe.
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Giving Beekeeping Guidance by cOmputatiOnal-assisted Decision making (B-GOOD)
Ongoing | 2019-2023
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Belgium