Pollinator ambassadors - Communicating science with creativity and purpose

FLOWER 

 

Facilitating Learning and Women’s Empowerment in Pollinator Regeneration

Project Years: 2024-2025

What is FLOWER?

FLOWER is an Erasmus+ funded project designed to empower young women* in biodiversity regeneration, with a special focus on pollinators. The project fosters systems thinking skills, creative expression, and community-building to strengthen women’s voices in environmental action.

Core Responsibilities and Actions

Pollinator Ambassadors, as the coordinating organisation, is responsible for:

  • Learning Design of the Training
  • Project Coordination
  • Training Facilitation
  • Participant Curation and Management
  • Artwork Curation and Exhibition Planning
Collaborate with us

Online Exhibition

Scroll to the bottom of this page to find the online exhibition of Zines created at the FLOWER Training. The button below takes you to the online exhibition at the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology.

Exhibition

First Activity: Training

In November 2024, we successfully hosted the first phase of FLOWER: a three-day training program in Greece, where 20 participants from Austria and Greece explored pollinator regeneration through workshops, a deep engagement with the host, ReGreen, and the final creation of zines, an activist form of artwork. Together, we built a strong network of changemakers dedicated to restoring biodiversity.

Second Activity: Zines

The zines created by the FLOWER participants are now visible online in an Online Exhibition. Scroll to the bottom of this page to see the zines.

But FLOWER doesn’t end here

A spin-off, 1-day pollinator zine making workshop and exhibition will be organised in May 2026 in Cambridge, UK. 

Zine on Systems Thinking tools

What could explain Systems Thinking and zines better than a zine? We created a zine outlining the tools used in FLOWER, if you want to learn how to use these tools and create your own zine.

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Vasileia Chatzaki

The Facilitators

FLOWER Workshop

Workshop on Power Over and Power With

ReGreen Comforts

Zine-Making Session

FLOWER Outdoor Exhibition

Eco Art

Accomodation at ReGreen

Zine Materials

Outdoors Zine Session

Voices of FLOWER

"Only few people have the skill to make complex systemic issues such as biodiversity loss easily understandable - Nadine and Nijnke master this skill. And the 3 days training course had it all: an inspiring location regreen making biodiversity efforts tangible, scientific information explained through systemic analysis and finally, and this is at the core of pollinator ambassadors: communicating science through artistic expression. Through the training I created strong bonds with participants from interdisciplinary fields (from scientists, to policy makers, to lawyer, to social entrepreneurs, to artists). I wish trainings like this would be accessible to all young people and adults who are looking to plant seeds of hope. the training equips you with all skills necessary."

Aurelia Brida
Coach and Learning Journey Designer

“I learned that there are a lot of other people that care about nature, which made me feel much safer.”

FLOWER Participant
Greece

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"“I learned how to use art and creative activities to learn and teach about conservation issues.”"

FLOWER Participant
Austria

This Project is funded by the European Union.