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The use of Superfamily Apoidea species in studies of Biodiversity, Sustainable Development and Environmental Biosafety of the Territory.

Interest for participation.
Why are you interested in this Workshop?

Researchers: Update on multidisciplinary fields

Taking as its starting point the biology of species in the superfamily Apoidea, you can upgrade and reorient research with new data and information from multidisciplinary fields: ecology, biodiversity and taxonomy networks, pollination and sustainability, organoleptic valuation bee products, biomonitoring and bioindication, maps tic's biosecurity, disease and toxicity, biochemical, genomic, environmental biosafety.

Students and Graduates: Training and Employment.

It is an opportunity to improve training and employment opportunities in a strategic sector in the coming years: Apiculture. Natural products of plant and crop pollination, biodiversity, sustainable development, ... A world to discover, thousands opportunities for professional development.

Beekeepers: Sustainability and Health of the bees.

The sustainability of a beekeeping depends on the health of the colonies. The environment has gone from being an ally to be, many instances, a threat to the viability of the farm. During the Workshop you can get first hand information at the international level to know what is happening and what can be done.

Business / Companies: Innovation, Positioning and Biodiversity.

Innovation in environmental certification can allow proper positioning of your business, through studies of biodiversity with species of the superfamily Apoidea offering the highest quality and exacting standards.

Administration / Environment and Agriculture: Responsibility and Biosafety.

Public Administration has a responsibility to know the advances in detection and assessment of harmful agents and pollutants, anticipating future interventions to take preventive measures to ensure adequate biosecurity citizens.

Summary.

The close relationship and interdependence between beekeeping and environment allows us to accommodate reason to hope that in the coming years we can create many opportunities for Innovation, Development and Employment.

In this sense, the celebration of this International Workshop provides an example of one of those opportunities. To this end, meet at the University of Cordoba from 15 to 18 November, researchers from different disciplines to address a multidisciplinary employment of Superfamily Apoidea species as bioindicators in studies of biodiversity, Sustainable Development and Environmental Biosafety of the Territory.

It aims to promote the meeting and exchange of experiences in the aforementioned subjects, as well as create a space conducive to the understanding and the proposed biomonitoring with bees as a valid and innovative approach complements and extends the environmental information taken into account so far by the conventional physicochemical methods.

Justification.

Ten questions to justify this Workshop
Pregunta	Respuesta
1- What is the purpose of measuring pollution?	Prevent damage to the health of human beings and other living things (plants and animals).
2- How is it measured today?	Physico-chemical parameters, mainly.
3- Is it enough?	No.
4- Why?	Because these indicators do not give us any information. We say, for example, if pollution actually comes or not from living beings, whether or not penetrate inside, and how
5- So...	If we want to preserve the health of living beings, why not use their own living? So, bioindicators.
6- And the bees?	They have many advantages. The most important: These are the biomarkers of the territory. They bring samples of air, soil, vegetation and water. All chemicals required for marketing ecotoxicity tests on bees. Bees are very sensitive because they haven´t got liver. To establish protocols and easily standardized and reproducible studies.
7- How often is it possible to have information?	With the new ICTs we can have real time information about what is happenning in a biomonitoring station anywhere in the world. The remote control, for example, through systems of sight, sound, sensors and thermocouples is a major advancement and development for rapid collection and analysis of samples, and thus to obtain results.
8- How can you see the results?	GIS mapping allows us to elaborate very accurately Biosafety maps and interpolate the information provided by biomonitoring stations. The display of these results is thus more intelligible and real, allowing you to take preventive measures and subsequent corrective.
9- Is this information useful?	Of course. We believe that human beings have every day a greater need to know "part of biosecurity", besides the weather, to decide, for example, where to live, where or when going on holiday and what foods area.
10- What can you do?	Publicize the Workshop and the use of bees as bioindicators through Social Networks. Be aware that the quality of the environment and with it, the life of bees depends on our lifestyle. Eating honey and other national bee products

Objectives

The development of the Workshop has scientific, educational and outreach, technical and employment.

Scientists

1. Serve as a meeting point to exchange of experiences scientifically proven in relation to employment and potential of Apis mellifera or other pollinators such as environmental bioindicators.
2. Generate dialogue and working to establish guidelines to validate a method of study that is taken into account in decision-making by environmental managers of the administration and private companies responsible for environmental quality control.
3. Enable collaboration between research groups from different countries to future challenges and promote the integration of Spanish researchers in international projects related to this issue.

Spreading and formative

To make known that:

1. Superfamily Apoidea encompasses the more than 16,000 existing species of bees, most of which are solitary bees. This represents the starting point in the evolution toward social behavior leading up to the species Apis mellifera, the honeybee, a species considered as its perorganismo, which is cared for and raised by beekeepers.
2. The main environmental benefit of bees is to pollinate wild plants and crops, whose fruits and seeds are produced and ensures food production.
3. The bees occupy central nodes of the utmost importance in maintaining biodiversity networks, hence their presence serves as a baseline to assess the degree of Biodiversity and Environmental Quality.
4. Bees are excellent bioindicators of the Territory, because they collect environmental samples from different sectors that are sensitive to chemicals, we can shed light on the origin of contamination, possibly to establish reproducible protocols and systematized that can be located at geographical area and its cost is less than the physical-chemical analysis.

Technical and employment

1. Promote beekeeping as a model of sustainable development and multifunctionality in rural areas.
2. Submit your potential as a source of natural products industry, which requires improving the recovery and marketing them to innovate in developing new products and services that deliver value.
3. Provide guidance for students and graduates seeking employment in growth sectors.

Presentation

The Apoidea Workshop has been recognized by the University of Cordoba as their own training course, thanks to which, the students that courses can get free credits.

This Workshop also has the official support of Ministry of Science and Innovation to be approved as complementary actions (Ref.: CGL2010-10502-E) to the project "Development and implementation of a network biomonitoring stations with colonies of Apis mellifera for real-time assessment of urban pollution in the city of Cordoba "(199/PC08/3-18.2), funded by the Ministry of Environment, Rural and Marine Affairs, within the National R + D + i 2008-2011 and by the City of Córdoba.

Therefore, the realization of this Workshop is an important step forward, a balance of the path during the past four years and a push and a projection of what will develop in the future.

As it can be seen in the program, it is provided with four blocks (Biodiversity, Sustainable Development and Multifunctionality, Bioindicators and Biosafety), which coincide with each day. They are a series of 3 or 4 conferences in the morning which will involve national and international researchers and a workshop related to that theme area in the afternoon. It is also planned to conduct roundtables and videoconferencing.

Schedule

The use of Superfamily Apoidea species in studies of Biodiversity, Sustainable Development and Environmental Biosafety of the Territory.

Schedule	Tuesday 15 Biodiversity	Wednesday 16 Pollination, sustainability	Thursday 17 Biomonitoring	Friday 18 Bioseguridad
9:15	Inauguration by Authorities	2.1.- Breeding and Management of Pollinators for Gardens and Urban Areas. Gianumberto Accinelli. Eugene SL. Technology-Based Enterprise at the University of Bologna. Italy	3.1.- Environmental influence on the development of bee diseases. Prof. Francisco Puerta. University of Cordoba.	4.1.- Biosafety studies in areas of defense. Dr. Luis Enrique Martín Otero. Coordinator VISAVET. RE-LAB
10:00	1.1.- Biodiversity of Superfamily Apoidea species in southern Spain. Dr. Francisco Javier Ortiz Sánchez. University of Almeria.	2.2.- Experience and peculiarities of pollination with bumblebees. Manuel Pérez Cano. BIOMIP Manager. Almería.	3.2.- Biomonitoring with Apis mellifera as environmental biomarker. Dr. Claudio Porrini. Universita degli Studi di Bologna, Dipartimento di Scienze e Technologie Agroambientali (DIST). Italy	4.2.- Apoidea SL, Technology-Based Company for Environmental Biosafety Territory. First results. Dr. José Antonio Ruiz Martínez. Apoidea SL. EBT at the University of Córdoba.
11:00	Break: Coffe
11.30	1.2.- Utility and potential biomarkers in studies of environmental quality assessment. Dr. Rafael Molero Baltanás. University of Córdoba, España.	2.3.- Operation Pollinators. Germán Canomanuel. Head of Sustainable Agriculture. Syngenta.	Round-table Meeting 3.3.- EffectS of neonicotinoids on development and behavior of colonies of Apis mellifera. Josephine Johnson. USDA.ARS Bee Research Laboratory Bldg-476-BARC-E Beltsville, M D 10705 USA.	4.3- Future use of molecular biomarkers in pollution studies with Apis mellifera. Profs. Carmen Lopez Juan Barea and Carmen Pueyo de la Cuesta. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. University of Cordoba. Prof. José Luis Gómez Ariza. Professor Analytical Chemistry. Dept. of Chemistry and Materials Science. University of Huelva
12.30	1.3.- Economic estimation of pollintation with bees. Dr. Fernando Calatayud. Apiads Technical Services.	2.4.- E-ruche. Application of Biomonitoring Project TIC'sa with bees. Prof. Jean-Pierre Martin. Université d'Orléans.	3.4.- Integrated Management for Sustainable Agriculture. Syngenta.
14:00	Lunch
Whorkshop
16:00	Workshop 1 Control, monitoring and biomonitoring station management with Apis mellifera. Miriam Gutiérrez, Apoidea SL. Taxonomic identification of the main genres of the Superfamily Apoidea Dr. Francisco Javier Ortiz Sánchez. University of Almería.	Workshop 2 Organoleptic recovery of bee products. Dr. Antonio Bentabol Manzanares. Casa de la Miel. Tenerife. Nirs Technology application for recovery of beekeeping. Aurora López Tejada, Apoidea SL.	Workshop 3 Allergy to Hymenoptera. Prevention and treatment. Dra. Carmen Moreno Aguilar. Allergy Service Area, Reina Sofía Hospital. Córdoba.	Workshop 4 The workshop on business as an employment opportunity and innovation for the beekeeping sector. Prof. José Emilio Guerrero Ginel. Prof. Pablo Lara Vélez. Leovigilda Ortiz Medina. University of Córdoba.

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Location

Edificio de Gobierno. Campus Universitario de Rabanales Sala de Grados Manuel Medina. Ctra. Madrid-Cádiz Km. 396. 14071 Córdoba

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Double room: 33 €

Single room: 25 €

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Single room: 66 €

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Train schedules to Rabanales campus

Exit from Córdoba: 7:40h, 8:45h, 10:05h, 11:50h, 13:00h, 14:30h, 15:45h, 19:35h y 21:10h.

Exit from Rabanales: 7:50h, 8:55h, 10:15h, 12:15h, 13:15h, 14:40h, 15:55h, 19:45h y 21:30h.

All these trains run Monday through Friday, except holidays as

Single ticket: 1,30 €. Round-trip ticket: 2,10 €

Contact

E-mail: apoidea@uco.es

Phone: 646 145 889 / 658 031 243

Adress: Polígono Tecnocórdoba. Centro Empresarial Rabanales. Nave Nº79, Oficina 5 C/Estonia Nº1. Córdoba-14014

Registration

Registration for the Workshop should be uniquely through Sigma-Orion platform,accessed via the following link:

http://www.uco.es/estudios/sep/cowep/

Prices:

• University students: 50 €
• Other attendees: 70 €

Organizers

Colaborations

About Apoidea

Apoidea is a technology-based company born in the University of Córdoba, which operates in the field of biosafety Territorial Environmental and Certification.

Maps produced Apoidea Biosafety, using monitoring stations with bee Apis mellifera, as environmental biomarkers to improve the management, decision making and competitiveness of businesses, industries and institutions of government.

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