AHRC BEES - Building engagement in environment and space

The Make Space for BEES project will develop design-led solutions to address specific challenges facing biodiversity through developing a rewilding tool to be used by younger people to support pollinator habitats. This project will address the challenge of how to enable young people to take action to address biodiversity challenges. It will empower them to act and see tangible changes in their local environment - their school grounds. The project will work collaboratively in a place-based approach with the innovative organization Pollenize and younger people through five secondary schools in Cornwall, UK to cocreate innovative design solutions that enable the project to have meaningful impact on the green transition.

Test: Create pathways to action/tools for caring for the environment
Engage: Engage young people with biodiversity using creative spatial tools, working with bees as a key driver of biodiversity ecosystems
Adopt a place-based approach to enable young people to take action in their local environment.
Innovate: Develop creative digital tools and engagement materials that can be used at scale by groups working with younger people (e.g. schools)
Impact: Inform the nature recovery/biodiversity net gain agenda