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#InsideANTENNA: A Social Media Campaign Highlighting ANTENNA’s Work Packages
The ANTENNA project recently launched a social media campaign, titled #InsideANTENNA, which provides a detailed picture of the project’s structure and its action points. The campaign featured informational videos that provided insights into ANTENNA’s work packages (WPs), showcasing the project’s work towards filling key gaps in pollinator monitoring.
ANTENNA is organised into five work packages as follows:
WP1: Co-design and technology readiness level advancement starts with identifying stakeholder needs through online workshops. Then it goes on to improve the available tools to fully automate the handling and classification of large and diverse sets of specimens through robotics, data sciences and deep learning. The final step of the WP is to design and develop an open-source, participatory pollinator monitoring platform, articulating three components: (i) a custom-made pollinator camera, the Anthoscope; (ii) a new mobile application to maintain and programme the cameras; and (iii) a cloud service to upload and analyse monitoring data.
WP2: Added value of novel technologies uses the automated monitoring approaches developed within WP1 and elsewhere to establish a field site network across Europe and beyond and develop standardised protocols for the deployment of innovative devices. It goes on further to capture and collect necessary data through unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with state-of-the-art equipment (e.g. spectral or hyperspectral sensors, LiDAR systems) to map floral and nesting resources in selected sites of our field site network in three countries (Greece, Germany, Spain). The WP then evaluates the full economic costs and benefits of novel methods and compares them with ‘traditional ’ monitoring methods and finally organises a second round of workshops to collect feedback from stakeholders (professional and citizen scientists) on potential improvements of the automated sample sorting and classification and the pollinator camera traps, as well as to discuss the results from field testing and cost-benefit analyses.
WP3: Integrative monitoring and modelling begins with the development of novel metrics which focus on the information that can be obtained from population (and community) fluctuations themselves, and test their usability as early warning indicators. The next focus is on developing near real-time forecasting models, which provide the opportunity to iteratively cycle between analyses and update predictions in light of new evidence. This iterative process of gaining feedback, building experience, and correcting models and methods is critical for improving forecasts and minimising uncertainty. Finally, the WP adopts dynamic documents incorporating data, models and visualisations using GitHub. They will (i) automatically update with new data from multiple sources, and (ii) track previous results, acting as a living repository of past predictions.
WP4: Large-scale implementation of novel monitoring approaches is responsible for developing guidance for future users by assembling a framework for standardised data practices and data management. It also facilitates a stepwise stakeholder engagement plan covering co-design, field testing, refinement and co-implementation to foster constructive discussions and mitigate potential opposing and intractable positions, identifying potential early adopters and opposers of our approaches. Additionally, WP4 is responsible for the development and implementation of a detailed plan for the exploitation and dissemination of results to maximise ANTENNA’s impact. This plan will contain the project’s key messages, identified target groups, a multi-channel communication approach, as well as key performance indicators for all communication and dissemination actions.
WP5: Project coordination and communication includes the design of a project logo to guide ANTENNA’s overall graphic identity and set up a project website. The website will provide a platform for communication tools and routes allowing easy access to general information about the project, its activities, and actionable results for broader dissemination to the wider EU and global communities. WP5 is also focused on solidifying the support towards open science principles through a robust data management plan and is responsible for the overall project coordination and management of the project.
As ANTENNA continues to move forward, the project remains committed to keeping the public informed and engaged with its work.
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