Living Lab

Skåne / Lund University

Researchers at Lund University are establishing a living lab within the southern tip of Sweden. The two case studies and related living lab focus on 1) grassland restoration for nationally rare and threatened ground-nesting solitary bees and 2) flower plantings on arable land for pollinators. The first is in collaboration with mainly the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, the County Administrative board in Skåne and municipalities and coordinated with the Biodiversa+ project ENABLElocal. The second is in collaboration with farmers, farm advisors at the Swedish Agricultural Society and their campaign “All of Skåne/Sweden is blooming” and Kivik’s Musteri and their biodiversity parks. Stakeholders involved include local to national authorities, farmers, farm advisors, beekeepers, seed companies, researchers, and the media.

Activities within the Living Labs

Within the Living Lab network, we are conducting an array of different activities at different levels. These include:

Level 1

The center level contains activities that are conducted at the living labs but coordinated by RestPoll members (i.e. pollinator monitoring).

Pollinator and vegetation monitoring (Task 1.2a)
Pollination monitoring (Task 1.2b)
Measuring the effect of co-design (Task 1.3)
Rapid assessment of plants and pollinators (Task 1.4)
Evaluate interactions among landscape-scale drivers and local restoration measures on pollinators (Task 2.2)
Identify synergies and opportunities for improvements of current restoration implementations (Task 2.3)

Level 2

The second level contains activities that are conducted within the living lab with all stakeholders involved (i.e. workshop to discuss implementation of co-designed measures).

Assess co-benefits of pollinators restoration measures and the direct and indirect impacts of restoration measures on bio-economy (Task 2.4 + 3.3)
Develop and test a novel instrument based on Payments for Restoration-mediated Pollination Services (PRPS) (Task 3.2)
Establishing and monitoring progress and knowledge flow with the Living Lab (Task 4.1)
Assessing enabling conditions for pollinator restoration measures (Task 4.3)

Level 3

The third level are activities that are conducted within the living lab during demonstration events, including a larger audience (i.e. workshop on horizon scan).

Level 4

The final level includes activities that involve the general public within the living lab vicinity (i.e. testing of feasibility of tools).

Assessing the awareness of pollinators and willingness to protect them (Task 3.1)
Estimate the value added by wild pollinators to the food value chain (Task 3.4)
Test and evaluate tools for the RestPoll toolbox of restoration methods (Task 5.2)
Survey consumer willingness to purchase biodiversity-friendly products (Task 5.3)
Understanding and evaluating the co-design of pollinator-friendly labels (Task 5.4)

About this Living Lab

Implementations

Digging/scraping to create bare sand and early successional stages (restoration 1), Flower plantings part of the “All of Skåne is flowering” campaign (restoration 2)