Beekeeping and its Role in Countryside Ecology and Rural Development Erasmus Project

General information for the Beekeeping and its Role in Countryside Ecology and Rural Development Erasmus Project

Beekeeping and its Role in Countryside Ecology and Rural Development Erasmus Project
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Project Title

Beekeeping and its Role in Countryside Ecology and Rural Development

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Agriculture, forestry and fisheries; Rural development and urbanisation

Project Summary

Albert Einstein said that mankind would survive four years after extinction of the bees. There are no crops without pollination; animals will die of hunger – and the people with them. The project called “Beekeeping and its Role in Countryside Ecology and Rural Development” was a project aimed to sharing experiences at the level of seven different organizations from five EU countries (Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Portugal) in which the organizations were more or less engaged in the field of beekeeping, education, countryside ecology and rural devepopment.
Beekeeping with are meant as commodity which provides the people with livelihood and also major source of incomes in some areas. The project deals with the status of regional policy and development in relation to this topic. It deals with the ways of how institutions in individual countries support small farmers and beekeepers and how the non-profit and educational sector can get involved in the field of promoting this activity. It can subsequently influence both the issue of employment in a particular region and overall shape and character of the landscape or its attractiveness.
The project results was arrangement of 4 mobilities in 4 countries of 7 organizations (in total 82 mobilities, including 33 student mobilities, 49 mobilities of pedagogues, mobilities of representatives of non-profit sector and then also those of people from practice sphere). But totally we made 101 mobilities (19 above). All partners were actin in vocational training (education) in their region or provide vocational training to schools (as experts from bussinness practice).Goal was to combine theory and practice of teaching and local bussiness. Then demonstrate good practice and “know how”, how to do business in beekeeping on organic way. The main idea of this point was cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices between different institutions devoted to the beekeeping in education. In the whole time of the project duration, we made educational material (5 issues of Magazine) which were continue to be used for teaching subjects at schools and educational institutions. You can also download this materila in free PDF format froma webpage: beekeeping-ecology.eu. The material is to present results of comparison and offer examples of good practice. It can be used as a guide for turning a relatively neglected area, such as beekeeping, into the shape of a strategic issue for development of a region or in vacation trainnig. Working on this materil were shared by experts from all the countries and involved organizations, including their assistants. Natura Opava will be a guarantor and editor of this. The project was also aimed to achieve wider integration of young people from partner countries via organizing this project. They will overcome language and social barriers. They will learn to communicate and solve situations in an international team. These aspects, including acquisition of professional knowledge, were provide the students with useful experiences for their future professional lives. Regarding teachers and professional assistants, it were make their methodology profiles wider and allow them to exchange experiences in an international team.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 120855 Eur

Project Coordinator

Natura Opava – Czech Republic & Country: CZ

Project Partners

  • UNIVERSITATEA DE STIINTE AGRONOMICE SI MEDICINA VETERINARA DIN BUCURESTI
  • Izba Rolnicza w Opolu
  • Associação Regional para o Desenvolvimento
  • RUDE – Associação de Desenvolvimento Rural
  • Masarykova strední skola zemedelská a Vyssí odborná skola, Opava, príspevková organizace
  • UNIVERSITY OF RUSE ANGEL KANCHEV