The second WildPosh Annual General Meeting (AGM) took place in Turin, Italy, hosted by the University of Turin. The two-day event once again brought together partners from across the consortium to share the latest project developments and lay out plans for the year ahead.

The meeting opened with a warm welcome from project coordinator Prof. Denis Michez, which was followed by a series of updates from the project's work packages.

The Estonian University of Life Sciences kicked off proceedings with fieldwork updates, reporting on collected samples sent for pesticide screening, ongoing farmer interviews, and landscape analyses. Findings on pesticide responses in pollinators were then presented by the University of Murcia, BioPark, and CNRS, followed by a presentation on the development of protocols for assessing pesticide impacts on wild pollinators - now applied to more than 15 species.

A dedicated session highlighted the harmonisation of ERA and OECD protocols between WildPosh and its sister project PollinERA, with PollinERA taking the floor to outline the methodology underpinning their testing protocol development. A presentation followed describing the project’s efforts to compile EU and national-level data on European pollinators and pesticide distribution, as well as the ongoing collaboration on dataset development. Building on this, the conversation went on with the progress on refining risk assessment approaches and predicting the risk of multiple pesticides on wild pollinators at the landscape scale.

Partners also presented advances in assessing the effectiveness and feasibility of mitigation measures, including the synthesis of WildPosh findings alongside external knowledge, the development of good practice guides for practitioners, and active engagement in science-policy dialogues. Rounding out Day 1, Pensoft presented updates on communication and dissemination activities, new WildPosh materials, and open-access publishing opportunities for pollinator research.

Day 2 opened with inter-work package discussions aimed at strengthening alignment across the project. A highlight of the day was a presentation by Tom Breeze, coordinator of the VALOR Project, who shared the four future outcome scenarios developed during the VALOR future scenarios workshop - held as part of the AGM itself. 

The meeting concluded with a General Assembly led by Prof. Michez, who provided an overview of the project's achievements to date, paying particular attention to growing collaborations with the VALOR and PollinERA projects, and shared plans for the upcoming third Annual General Meeting.

The second WildPosh AGM reinforced the strong spirit of collaboration at the heart of the project, celebrated meaningful progress, and laid the ground for the work still to come.