"Specific challenges in the work programme ";"How the B-GOOD research programme addresses them " "Lack of a holistic approach ";"B-GOOD paves the way towards healthy and sustainable beekeeping, by following a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach, merging data from multiple sources, from in and around beehives as well as wider socio-economic conditions. This approach will identify correlative relationships, to perform risk assessments and provide guidance for beekeepers to make more informed and better decisions in various contexts. " "Key factors for healthy and sustainable European beekeeping are determined by what happens in or around hives " "Proposals will develop ready-to-use tools for operationalising the 'Health Status Index' ";"A key to healthy beekeeping is the Health Status Index inspired by EFSA’s Healthy-B toolbox which we will make fully operational, with the active collaboration of beekeepers, by facilitating the coordinated and harmonised flow of data from various sources and by testing and validating (or discarding) each component thoroughly. We envisage a step-by-step expansion of participating apiaries, calling successively on our research partners, selected beekeepers and the broader beekeeper community, related stakeholders and networks. In a pilot study, we will combine field observations with laboratory analyses across EU regions covering the North-South and East-West axes. " "To develop and implement an action plan for a coordinated and harmonised approach to the collection of related data and information " "Pilot study in different representative European countries to test, standardise and validate methods for measuring and reporting selected indicators and factors affecting bee health " "Exploring the various socio-economic and ecological factors beyond bee health to provide comprehensive blueprints of successful business model(s) of European beekeeping ";"The key to sustainable beekeeping is a better understanding of its socio-economics, particularly within local value chains, its relationship with bee health and the human-ecosystem equilibrium of the beekeeping sector and to implement these insights into the data processing and decision making. We will fully integrate socio-economic analyses, identify viable business models tailored to different contexts for European beekeeping and determine the carrying capacity of the landscape. " "To create an EU platform to collect and share knowledge of science and practice related to honey bees, their environment and agricultural and beekeeping practices Organising and coordinating data sets and standards relating to the environment and agricultural and beekeeping practices relevant to the monitoring of honey bee health and giving all relevant stakeholders access to such information. ";"In close cooperation with the EU Bee Partnership, an EU-wide bee health and management data platform and affiliated project website will be created to enable sharing of knowledge and learning between scientists and stakeholders within and outside the consortium. We will utilise and further expand the classification of the open source IT-application for digital beekeeping, BEEP, to streamline the flow of data related to beekeeping management, the beehive and its environment (landscape, agricultural practices, weather and climate) from various sources. " "Interactions of stressors affecting honey bees and their relative contribution to colony losses emerging risks or pathogens (e.g. the small hive beetle, Aethina tumida, and the Asian hornet Vespa velutina) ";"The dynamic bee health and management data platform will allow us to identify correlative relationships among factors impacting the HSI, assess the risk of emerging pests and predators, and enable beekeepers’ to develop adaptive management strategies that account for local and EU-wide issues. " "A multi-actor approach bringing together beekeepers, bee inspectors, other stakeholders (e.g. plant growers) and scientists (including social scientists) is required ";"Using existing partnerships and networks, we will fully engage with a wide range of actors to share and integrate their expertise and interests. Reinforcing and establishing, where necessary, new multi-actor networks of collaboration will engender a lasting learning and innovation system (LIS) to ensure social-ecological resilient and sustainable beekeeping in Europe. " "To give appropriate feedback to beekeepers both through dissemination and training ";"A targeted communication strategy for exploitation and dissemination will be created, helping maximise the uptake and impact of the project results, which will include usage of a language familiar to stakeholders. We make use of traditional printed media, tailored training workshops/programmes, as well as web-based platforms (project website and bee health and management web portal, BEEP) to create a dynamic LIS. " "To minimise the impact of biotic and abiotic stressors ";"The LIS will enable fact-based decision-making, based on real-time data inputs, for beekeepers and other stakeholders. Threshold values will be set in order to determine when a decision needs to be communicated to the end-user, through ‘alerts’. This will enable adaptable and timely mitigation actions aimed at alleviating the impact of different stressors to which bees are exposed and tailored to local contexts. "