Dear all, As you might be aware, unfortunately, the global public health situation is getting more severe. Recently, WHO has declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Countries started to close their borders and limit any larger gatherings (incl. many EU countries). Flights across the world are being cancelled, businesses are closing, and mainly, everything is
Dear all, As you are aware, there is a significant outbreak of a new virus, Covid-19, which is impacting all of us around the world. As the situation is changing every day, we are monitoring the situation closely and assessing its impact on our activities. Currently, the situation is still not developing favorably as further
Dear friends beekeepers, We would like to thank you for your support and interest in the activities of young beekeepers throughout the year. In 2019, a lot of work has been done in this area thanks to your willingness to engage. Your support is also what drives us forward and helps us to expand the
Dear fellow beekeepers, After successful 10th IMYB this year, which took place in Slovakia, we are already looking forward to 11th and 12th year, which will take place in Slovenia and Russia. In anticipation of 13th edition in 2022, we are very excited to announce that we are now taking applications to host the 2022 IMYB. We
During the plenary meeting on 10th August 2019, the core members of ICYB – International Center for Young Beekeepers, z.s. unanimously granted honorary membership to Ing. Pavel Fiľo for an excellent organization of the International Meeting of Young Beekeepers IMYB in 2015 and 2019 in Slovakia and for the lifelong support of work with beekeeping
Are you interested in beekeeping club assistants? Have a look at the new video which is part of the series “How to lead a beekeeping club”.
Last weekend, 10th International Meeting of Young Beekeepers took place in Slovakia in Banska Bystrica. The meeting was very successful as it hosted beekeepers from every continent where bees live! To read more about it, look at out website of past meetings, and don’t forget to browse all the photos and videos, on our website,
On Friday, June 21, 2019, ICYB and Russian Union of beekeepers and beekeeping organizations of the country signed a document by which Russia is entrusted by ICYB with the organization of the 12th International Meeting of Young Beekeepers, IMYB, in July 2021.
WEDNESDAY 3rd July 2019 from 12.00 registration of participants 15.00 – 18.00 school activities 18.00 – 19.30 dinner 20.00 – 22.00 cultural program lead by animators (canteen) country presentations – SK, CZ, Lebanon, Ireland, Lithuania coordinators´meeting THURSDAY 4th July 2019 7.00 – 8.30 breakfast 9.00 – 10.50 opening ceremony 11.00 – 13.30 first part of the competition 11.00
In the section “Educational materials“, we bring the first part of a cartoon publication focused on biology of honey bees created by Miroslav Urban. The series contains total of 12 hand-illustrated tables covering topics like bee anatomy, social behavior of bees, life of the bee colony during the year and the relationship of bees in