The National B-THENET Centres, organise easily accessible and free-of-charge training events for beekeepers, advisors, and all interested stakeholders, in their national language. Please visit the B-THENET Events Page for the training events scheduled in each country.
Beekeeping practices are developed over three years, each year focusing on different topics in partner countries: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden.
These practices are continuously published on the B-THENET Platform. The topics are as follows:
- Apiary Set-up/Management, Varroosis (already published)
- Colony Set-up and Daily Management/Maintenance, American Foulbrood (to be published in January 2025)
- Record-keeping, Bee Feeding and Watering, European Foulbrood (to be published in October 2025)
- Routine (Preventive) Hygiene Practices, Nosemosis, Small Hive Beetle, and Vespa velutina (to be published in 2026)
As with every round, for our upcoming October 2025 publications on Record-keeping, Bee Feeding and Watering, and European Foulbrood, we’ve created an online survey. We would be grateful for your input.
Let’s build the B-THENET Community further to create a more thriving apiculture sector!
B-THENET is the first EU-wide network for sustainable beekeeping, providing EU beekeepers and advisors with practical beekeeping solutions and training, co-developed with practising beekeepers and tailored to the respective country. The network includes 18 entities from the apiculture sector, including beekeepers’ associations, research institutes, and universities. We operate 13 National B-THENET Centres across Europe and 3 International Centres to foster the improvement of the beekeeping sector both at national and transnational levels.
Author: Lauriane Mariame IZSLT
