ECT Funded Projects - 2018

ECT Funded Projects - 2018

Current and on-going Projects
Supported by the
Eva Crane Trust

The Eva Crane Trust continues to support an increasing number of scientific projects around the world. The following table provides an overview of the various conferences, workshops, outreach projects, publications and academic research that is currently recieving financial support from the Trust. 

 

 

Name, Institute & Country

Project Title

 

Date

1

 

Dr Denise Matias, 
Bonn University,
Germany

Assessing the decline of wild honey production in Palawan, Philippines

2014 - 2019

2

Prof. Ratnieks
Sussex University,
UK

LASI Outreach project

2015 - 2018

3

The Makhad Trust,
Cheltenham, UK

Bedouin beekeeping project

2015 - 2018

4

Dr Martin Grüber
University of Bremen,
Germany

Anthropological research on beekeeping
in Cameroon

2016 - 2019

5

Dr Geoff Williams
Auburn University,
USA

COLOSS conference

2015 - 2018

6

Dr Karina Antunez
Inst. Of Biol Res. Clemente,
Uruguay

Establishing SOLATINA
& support workshops

2016 - 2018

7

Dr Zbigniew Lipiński
Polish Academy of Sciences in Olsztyn, Poland

New Book:
Honey bee nutrition and feeding.

2016 - 2018

8

Riccardo Cabbri, 
Bologna Uni,
Italy

Biomarker discovery in honeybees &
wild bees

2016 - 2018

9

Prof. Dr. Katia Peres Gramacho
Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido,
Brazil

Bees’ Toxicological Contamination Analyses to Apicultural activity nationwide

2016 - 2018

10

Dr Dara Stanley,
NUI Galway,
Ireland

ECT Pollen Reference Collection

2017 - 2019

11

Dr Corneile Minnaar, 
Stellenbosch University,
South Africa

Honeybee influence on floral diversity

2017 - 2019

12

Slobodan Dolasevic
University of Belgrade,
Serbia

Diet influence on quality of queen bees

2017 - 2019

13

Dr Marinus de Jager
Stellenbosch University,
South Africa

How bees move pollen in fruit orchards

2017 - 2019

14

Katherine Burns
NUI Galway,
Ireland

Importance of bees to Irish Agriculture

2017 - 2019

15

Dr Ignazio Floris
Sassari University,
Corsica

Book: Italian Apiculture Histories

2017 - 2019

16

Dr Michael Geary,
Limerick Institute of Technology,
Ireland

Comparison of morphometric and molecular genetic methods of analysis for the Irish bee population

2017 - 2019

17

Ignasi Bartomeus
Estación Biológica de Doñana.
Spain

Unveiling wild bee pathogen transmission patterns at the community level

2018

18

Lotta Fabricius Kristiansen
Swedish Bees

Pollination Week - Sweden

2018

19

Prof. Dave Goulson
University of Sussex,
UK

The Pollinator-Plant Interaction Database

2018

20

Museum of English Rural Life/Special Collections Service, University of Reading,
UK

Cowan Project

2018

21

Dr Anita Varghese,
Keystone Foundation,
India

A decadal assessment of honey bee nesting sites in forests of Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve

2018

22

Dr Dane Ward and Dr Meghan Barrett
Drexel University,
USA

Investigating the ecosystem interactions
& morphology of Melipona beecheii 
in collaboration with the University of Cienfuegos, Cuba, for apicultural application

2018

23

Dr Dirk de Graaf
Ghent University
Belgium

EurBee 8 Conference

2018

24

David Bolton
Fermanagh BKA,
Northern Ireland

Feral Bee Box Pilot Project

2018

25

Maria Torres,
Universidad Nacional de Colombia,
Colombia

Relationship of the decline of Tetragonisca angustula (Apidae, Meliponini) with associated bacteria

2018