Pollen was launched in January 2006 and took place over a three-and-a-half-year period. With inquiry-based science education as a primary objective, the project focused on the creation of 12 Seed Cities throughout the European Union. A Seed City is an educational territory that supports primary science education through the commitment of the whole community. The major goal of Pollen was to provide an empirical illustration of how science teaching can be reformed on a local level within schools whilst involving the whole community, in order to demonstrate the sustainability and efficiency of the Seed City approach to stakeholders and national education authorities, and to seek leverage leverage effects.

In each Seed City, Pollen provided material and methodological and pedagogical support compatible with the framework of the local curriculum.

All of the materials produced as part of Pollen, as well as further information about the project, can be accessed free of charge through the Pollen website.
 
"...Carried by bees, Pollen made of few-micron grains, will fertilize thousands of flowers. This evoques for me, the work of all these teachers who will spread knowledge among thousands of pupils."...

              The Nobel Prize in Physics 1992