European Bee Award

Categories (2026)

• Land management practices — farming and land practices that create habitats for pollinators and enrich biodiversity across the wider farmed landscape.
• Innovative technological and digital solutions — new technologies, or new uses of existing ones, that reduce the impact of farming operations on pollinators: advances in machinery, harvesting and crop protection, plus monitoring tools, software and AI.
• Community action — community-led initiatives (cooperatives, schools, citizen groups, associations, local organisations) that engage, educate and mobilise people to protect pollinators.
• Biological solutions — biocontrol products and the projects applying them, with a clear link to pollinator protection, including solutions that replace or reduce harmful inputs.

Prizes: One winner is selected in each category. From these four, the jury chooses one to receive the €4,000 Grand Prize; the other three each receive a Diploma of Recognition. All four winners are promoted through ELO and John Deere channels and invited to the Award Ceremony in Brussels.  However, if no application is deemed sufficiently relevant in a given category, the organisers reserve the right not to award a winner in that category.

The last Bee Award ceremony took place on 2 December 2025. The event page is available here.