CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Project title: One Welfare BioBee3: linking biodiversity with honeybee welfare, beekeeper well-being and beekeeping productivity
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Citizen Transition Living Lab
• Country: Switzerland (CH)

Research area

• Call theme: Enhancing well-being for the future
• Keywords:

  welfare; well-being; biodiversity; economy; beekeeping

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  I am an interdisciplinary researcher with a rich and diversified academic background. I have been working on projects related to macroinvertebrate and algae biodiversity, sustainable aquaculture, farm sustainability assessment and future thinking. I have skills related to methods both quantitative (descriptive and inferential statistics) and qualitative (discourse analysis based on survey and interview). Moreover, I have acquired extensive knowledge in several fields such as education, sustainable agriculture, beekeeping, psychology, biodiversity, environmental impact assessment and citizen science. My rich and diversified background has allowed me to do interdisciplinary research and to use holistic approach. I am currently working on a research project linked to the honeybee welfare.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Particular attention is paid to achieving human well-being at country level. On the other hand, biodiversity has been declining at an alarming rate in recent years, and several key factors cause an increase in honeybee colony mortality. The concept of “One Welfare” recognises the interconnexions between animal welfare, human well-being, environment and agricultural production. Several studies show the need for greater scientific research examining the link between these components. The aim of this project is to develop a global framework and to co-create, with all the stakeholders involved, self-assessment tools to evaluate these four factors: biodiversity, honeybee welfare, beekeeper well-being and beekeeping productivity. Multicriteria analyses of the most effective levers will be performed to evaluate their economic, social, and environmental impacts based on the “One Welfare” concept emphasizing bee and human welfare and environmental health. Using a citizen science approach, this project could foster interdisciplinary collaboration to improve human and bee welfare. It helps to describe context, deepens our understanding of the factors involved and create a holistic and solution-oriented approach to well-being issue. As part of this project, we are looking for expertise in sustainable economic evaluation, well-being measurement and biodiversity evaluation.

Dr Julie Cacheiro

• Organisation: Citizen Transition Living Lab
• Position: Independent researcher
• E-mail: julie.cacheiro@livinglabtransition.ch
• Phone: 0041 76 492 74 43
• Web: www.livinglabtransition.ch