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.
In 2016, we renovated an old apiary on our homestead, which had been alone for 30 years and no one kept bees in it. By enrolling in a course for beginner beekeepers and an apitherapy course, I gained the necessary knowledge to start beekeeping. At the Maribor Biotechnical School, I started teaching beekeeping and at the same time started equipping the beekeeping classroom, the apiary, arranging the honey garden in the vicinity of the apiary. I quickly foresaw that in beekeeping there is a great need to inspire young people - high school students in particular. There are also few beekeepers of the middle generation, and I wanted to connect them in the project, seek knowledge from experienced older beekeepers and share common experiences on websites. As a partner, we chose the Czech Beekeeping School, which has the advantage that all beekeeping education for adults is concentrated in one school, which falls under the auspices of the Ministry of Agriculture. The school has state-of-the-art beekeeping equipment, which offers us many opportunities to upgrade our knowledge. We Slovenians are successful in the field of apitherapy and in the promotion of beekeeping in Europe and the world, but we want a new beekiping school .