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With the project, we wanted to make the widest possible number of people aware of the importance of bees and beekeeping, and specifically present bee products (honey, propolis, pollen, royal jelly...

With the project, we wanted to make the widest possible number of people aware of the importance of bees and beekeeping, and specifically present bee products (honey, propolis, pollen, royal jelly, apilarnil, bee venom). We especially wanted to educate and raise awareness among the young, learning generation and middle working generation. Our desire was also to connect beekeepers with many years of experience with young beginner beekeepers, because only this transfer of knowledge is absolutely necessary. As a school, we also wanted to connect with various beekeeping associations and the agricultural institute. The most important thing was the desire to connect and transfer knowledge with our Czech partners. They already have an established, centralized beekeeping school for the whole country, which is administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and the Czech Beekeeping Association. The school is modernly equipped and offers a lot of opportunities for upgrading knowledge, which we wanted to take advantage of. Our partners wanted to learn about the peculiarities of Slovenian beekeeping, our beehive systems, and above all they wanted to upgrade their knowledge in apitherapy, make apitherapy preparations.

During the project we planted honey plants. All the plants that already grew here and those that we planted during the project are intended for bee grazing. We cared for bee colonies during the year, observed their development, treated them appropriately, compared treatments and wintered them. Before wintering, we fed them properly and added various supplements (probiotics). We obtained bee products (pollen, royal jelly, propolis, wax, bee pollen, wax). We learned about apitherapy and made apitherapeutic preparations. During beekeeping, we learned about different beehive systems. We carried out two management exchanges, where we got to know both schools, their activities and agreed on the activities that will be carried out during the exchange of students. We conducted two student exchanges (one in the Czech Republic and the other in Slovenia). 15 students of different age groups took part in the exchange, we also included students with fewer opportunities in the exchange. During the exchanges, we held workshops - crop production, lyophilization of queen breeding, ...we visited various apiaries, museums, visited apiturisms. We also created a website in Slovenian, Czech and English.

The concrete products were: healthy and cared for bee colonies, a hotel for insects, a perfect garden or arboretum of honey plants, high-quality bee products from which we made apitherapeutic preparations. We poured honey, collected pollen, collected propolis on nets, obtained royal jelly, bee venom, apilarnil. We made creamy mixtures of honey, to which we added other bee products or fruits, spices. All supplements were previously lyophilized in a lyophilizer purchased with project funds. We made students, teachers, beekeepers in societies, participants of the apitherapist course and beginner beekeeper aware of freeze-dried foods. We made propolis tincture, propolis suppositories, propolis capsules, ointments from herbal macerates, to which we added beeswax and propolis. We tested all the preparations on humans and animals, especially in winter, during colds. We presented our findings at congresses in Slovenia, the Czech Republic and other countries. We created a website for beekeepers, apitherapists and all consumers of bee products. The page was created during the project, with the aim of upgrading and spreading knowledge even after the end of the project.