FOR RESILIENT BEEKEEPING
A nice article in the Austrian beekeeper magazine “Bienen Aktuell” reached out to 30.000 beekeepers. The association currently represents approximately 30,000 members who collectively manage over 400,000 bee colonies. On average, an Austrian beekeeper owns 16 bee colonies. All giving an average annual honey production in Austria is around 5,000 tons.
There is 27 of them. Today Österreichischer Erwerbsimkerbund, 10_EWI. www.erwerbsimkerbund.at
Our Macedonian colleagues from the university Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, Goran Aleksovski and Aleksandar Uzunov got primetime on National television. The team is the lead of the Work Package 2, where focus is on producing more resilient bees via natural selection into honeybee breeding programs for Varroa resistance, study the existence and the mechanisms of natural selection due to higher Varroa infestation, testing the new accelerated breeding cycle towards rapid breeding progress, and finally having focus on cryopreservation of honey bee embryos. BeeGuards is in the proces of connecting.
May we present our wonderful team. There is 27 of them. Today Danmarks Biavlerforening, 9_DBF. www.biavl.dk. The association was founded back on July 5th, 1866. There is 6.500 members representing 90 % of all beekeepers in Denmark. There are around 120.000 colonies. Around 1 % are commercial beekeepers, 5-8 parttime beekeepers and the rest is amateur beekeepers having less then 10 colonies. There are 80 local beekeeper clubs.
May we present our wonderful team. There is 27 of them. Today: Magdalena Wilde, 7_PMW, Pola
www.pasiekawilde.pl
At the event “Eco-sustainability (19th 2023)” CNR (Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche) – WP5 team presented the BeeGuards project. The event was a part of the framework “Science Technology Research for Ethical Engagement Translated in Society”. BeeGuards got very good response and attention.
Read more: Beeguards presenting itself to the publicThe aim is to bring research and researchers closer to the public, particularly to families and students, through interactive educational laboratories, thus promoting excellent research projects throughout Europe.
BeeGuards attracted the attention of all participants, so it was easy to involve people in the important mission of protecting the resilience of Apis mellifera through beekeeping that adapts sustainably to an evolving environment.
May we present our wonderful teams. There is 27 of them. Today: Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, 6_CNR, Italy
BeeGuards presenting itself in northern Italy at the conference of a beekeepers’ association in North of Italy (Associazione Produttori Apistici delle province di Como e Lecco). 0ver 80 participants. Many professionals. Riccardo Terriaca, president of a national professional beekeeper association (Miele in Cooperativa), talked about the honey market, problems of importation and unfair competition. Cecilia Costa from CREA in Bologna talked about Varroa resistance, known mechanisms and populationdynamics. And what can scientists and beekeeper do together to promote sustainable beekeeping and the development of resistant honeybees? Here BeeGuards turns up as an exciting project.
May we present our wonderful team. There is 27 of them. Today: Beesources, 5_BSOUR, Dall’Olio, Raffaele, Italy. www.beesources.com/en/
May we present our wonderful team. There is 27 of them. Today: ZwarteBij.org VZW. 4_ARO. Belgium. www.zwartebij.org
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