Read more about our experience showcasing the #UPSCALE project at the AU-EU Innovation Fair in this #pressrelease from @jlugiessen.bsky.social! This event was an opportunity to reaffirm JLU's commitment to research & cooperation between the EU and African countries. idw-online.de/en/news860568
Zoological Biodiversity
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Animal Ecology, Institute of Animal Ecology & Systematics, Justus Liebig University of Giessen, Emily Poppenborg Martin Lab
🌍 We’re proud to share that Emily Poppenborg Martin (project coordinator) and Ammanuel Tamiru (leader of the Push-Pull programme from ICIPE) represented UPSCALE at The AU–EU Innovation Fair. #UPSCALE #InnovationFair #AUEUInnovation #Sustainability #AgriFoodSystems #EUProjects
📹 Check out the recent @jlugiessen.bsky.social video of our BeeContour project led by the Organic Farming department! The project investigates how strip cropping systems can promote the biodiversity of wild bees, pollinators, & other beneficial insects in agriculture 🐝 youtu.be/ZwA-O5YuyK4?...
JLU-Projekt BeeContour – Streifenanbau für mehr Biodiversität und Bodenschutz
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🔴 Live from the AU–EU Innovation Fair in Brussels! 🎉As Prof. Brando Okolo (AUDA-NEPAD) reminded us today: “The future is not something we wait for. It is something we build together.” We couldn’t agree more. 💪 Stay tuned for more updates live from the Fair! #UPSCALE
We are honored to showcase #UPSCALE as a top project at the AU-EU Innovation Fair 🙌 📃Find the full agenda here: innovationfair2025.service-facility.eu/en/programme @upscale-h2020.bsky.social
🙌Our team is honored and excited to participate in the Africa-Europe Innovation Fair! 📅Professor Emily Poppenborg Martin will pitch our @upscale-h2020.bsky.social project on Thursday, Oct. 23. 📃Find the full agenda here: innovationfair2025.service-facility.eu/en/programme
🌍✨ We’re proud to share that UPSCALE has been selected as one of the four best-performing FNSSA projects to present a pitch and host an exhibition stand at the AU-EU Innovation Fair! 🔗 You can find more information about the Innovation Fair here: innovationfair2025.service-facility.eu #UPSCALE
We're excited to be part of the KOMBI project that is testing a new conservation approach in Germany. Check out the project website to learn how #farmers & #natureconservation experts are collaborating to support #agriculture & protect #ecosystems. 💻https://kombi-agrar.de/ @jlugiessen.bsky.social
Our group has been testing out the #rebornArticles approach to make scientific information machine-readable & #FAIR. Our lab members Kevin, Ricardo, Kate, & @laurendsnyder.bsky.social recently created this cool video to explain the approach-check it out! More about reborn articles: reborn.orkg.org
As part of the 2025 #DanceYourPhD competition, I got to combine two of my passions - #science and #Zumba🤓💃 Gosh was it fun! Thanks so much to the creative souls who made it possible, especially my #Giessen Zumba friends & video editor extraordinaire Kevin Baumann! Check it out 👇 bit.ly/3Y27S8f
Check out this article featuring our very own Dr. Ricardo Perez Alvarez 👏
Ecologist Ricardo Perez Alvarez is working on one of the trickiest puzzles of our time—how to balance food production 🥦🌽 and the protection of our natural resources 🌎. Read his story in our new series featuring researchers who are pioneering machine-readable #rebornArticles. bit.ly/3FFB3r4
New article introduces the EuPPollNet database—a fully open European-level database harmonizing plant-pollinator interactions across space & time 🐝🌼 Congrats to the author team led by @joseblanuza.bsky.social & including our very own @libranembid-f.bsky.social. Check it out! doi.org/10.1111/geb....
EuPPollNet: A European Database of Plant‐Pollinator Networks
Motivation Pollinators play a crucial role in maintaining Earth's terrestrial biodiversity. However, rapid human-induced environmental changes are compromising the long-term persistence of plant-pol...
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