Conference • Nitra

BeeScience 1 – SC1 Bee pollens and bee-bread for improving nutrition, health anf life quality – SK – Nitra

The first conference will open a discussion about less-used and not well-appreciated bee products, namely bee pollen and bee-bread. Both products create bees from different pollen plant species, that they collect during flower pollination. Plant pollen is the most valuable product of flowering plants and the medium of paternal gametes as important role in fertilisation and formation of fruits and seeds and other plant products. Pollen has a very high nutritional and therapeutic value. Therefore, the purpose of this conference is to evaluate its positive and negative aspects for practical use. The conference program will address the following issues: nutritional, energy, therapeutic, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, hygienic, sensory, technological and microbiological value and bee technology of harvest bee pollen and bee-bread. The conference will take place in Slovakia.To each conference, leading scientists from project partner countries, as well as from other countries will prepare and present at least 12 lectures. At least 80 beekeepers and representatives of other target groups are actively involved in each conference. The aim of each conference is to create a live discussion and confront the views and knowledge of scientists and beekeepers about the presented topics at lectures. The conference participants will anonymously evaluate lectures presented by lecturers according to forms. http://bee-educa.uniag.sk/
Seminar/workshop • Budapest

Young Raw Materials Ambassadors’ Workshop in Hungary

This event will bring together at about 60 pupils from different schools (age:10-19) and their teachers with the V4 RM@school consortium. Pupils will be able to watch and interactively participate at this lively an spectacular event with experiments on raw materials sciences. The pupils will compete in groups - the best group can participate at the final V4 conference in Budapest where the national teams compete with each others. The workshop will be organised using a common methodology in all the 3 countries (HU, Pl and SK). http://www.bayzoltan.hu/hu/v4rmambassadors/
Seminar/workshop • Prague

Seminar and networking event for business partners – Prague

Fairtrade Cesko will organise a networking event for all business partners involved in sales of Fairtrade products. The main guest of the event is the cocoa producer Mr. Ousmane Traore from Ecakog, Ivory Coast who will talk about living and working conditions of cocoa farmers in West Africa. We will also present our most recent sales figures of 2018 and will present results of a research focused on awareness. https://tudatosvasarlo.hu/v4-fairtrade