European Centres of Vocational Excellence in Apiculture

ongoing

The project deals with the status of regional policy and development, with the ways of how institutions in individual countries support beekeepers and how the non-profit and educational sector can get involved in the field of promoting this activity.BeeLieve is designed around growing cooperation on vocational excellence in 5 regions, by enhancing regional innovation with an aligned skills ecosystem. BeeLieve tries to enhance work-based learning by creating a transnational community of regional skills-ecosystems and implementing a systematic approach for continuous learning. BeeLieve will deploy a mixed-method approach, piloting&implementation to deliver the project results. It is planned to draw up a MOOC curriculum, based on personalized b-learning adapted to different realities and different regions. This project will provide beekeepers with a reference of skills in the area of beekeeping. BeeLieve aims to foster for beekeeping bridges through innovative and participative vocational training, by developing a course curriculum, based on personalized b-learning adapted to different realities and different regions and guaranteeing European qualification. This project will provide beekeepers and future beekeepers with a reference of skills in the area of beekeeping. A Apicultural Capacity Building Program is designed based on: 1.a set of thematic training activities regarding testing and improving the Bee roadmaps for citizens, testing and improving the Cross-visiting method and involving trainers, technicians and researchers in the area of beekeeping and/or in active learning by sing gamification to assess and manage the beehive will be developed according to a strategic training programme designing, 2. an Apicultural Summer Academy, 3. a Collaborative B-Learning Platform fro Apiculture with Innovation and Knowlegde, as a virtual environment & 4. Beekeeping Technician Certification System Establishment after the possibility to be trainees in relevant Businesses.