Pilot Educational System Model
for the Restoration of Beekeeping for Women and Other Target Groups in Ukraine
Will be available from November 20, 2025
Pilot Educational System Model for the Restoration and Save of Beekeeping in War-Affected Ukraine will be prepared in the form of special courses with different content for three groups:women without knowledge and experience in beekeeping; women with experience in family beekeeping; generation of young beekeepers (12-20years old) without knowledge and experience in beekeeping.
The Education System (ES) will include a basic cycle of 12 lectures, 10 textbooks,and a workbook. A pedagogical and organizational team will be gradually established to prepare and implement the ES. The ES Complex aims to disseminate knowledge and retrain university employees, scientists, and experts, considering new conditions and the war’s negative impact. Teachers with new knowledge will train expert coaches to conduct regional courses.
About the Educational System
The conceptual preparation of the pilot model of the educational system for the restoration of beekeeping for women and other target groups in Ukraine will be prepared in the form of an official text document as a result of the project team and experts from the applicant country and partner countries involved in the implementation of the project.
The ES will be divided into basic chapters: justification of the preparation, basic objectives, system of education and dissemination of knowledge, selection and preparation of the teaching staff, categories of potential participants, assessment of the acquired knowledge by participants, organizational and technical support, registration and record-keeping of participants, legalization of the educational system, awarding of certificates,cooperation with universities and research institutions at the national and international levels, financial support, basic principles of creation and dissemination of quality knowledge.
The ES will be gradually expanded to courses with a specific orientation to individual serious problems and negative consequences of the state of war for beekeeping in the form of new projects at national and international levels. We anticipate assistance and expanded cooperation with partner countries and other countries around the world.
Pilot Textbooks
for Specialized Courses in the Education System
Will be available from February 8, 2026
Preparation of manuscripts, review, and publication of 10 innovative textbooks for specialized courses, addressing beekeeping restoration in war-affected regions. Topics include biological features, bee health and reproduction in new conditions; impact of environmental pollution on bees; hygiene; safety and quality of beekeeping products; their use in apitherapy for post-traumatic war syndromes; and other issues of war influence.
During textbook preparation, the Project Team will collaborate with experts from universities, research, and advisory institutions on beekeeping within UA, partner countries, and other. Textbooks will provide research and practical information to help women whose beekeeper husbands have been killed or injured acquire beekeeping skills, and support women, veterans and young people in starting beekeeping as professional beekeepers are at war.
About the Textbooks
A small number of modern textbooks and educational materials on beekeeping have been published in Ukraine. Majority of them are post-Soviet, outdated, or published only in paper.
So, scientific, educational, or methodological literature, as well as beekeeping practices, have not addressed the new challenges Ukraine, include the socio-economic, environmental impacts of the war, the critical reduction in professional beekeepers who died in battles, death of bees due to use weapons, inability go to honey plants due occupation and curfew.Martial law has particularly manifested negatively through the use of chemical and unknown weapons, impacting the health and reproduction bees, quality of bee products, and pollution of water, soil, air, plants in natural biocenoses and agrosystems. Many colonies and apiaries have been completely destroyed, with some surviving in unsuitable conditions without the help of beekeepers. In many regions the number of bee colonies, beekeepers, process of pollination natural ecosystems and cultivated crops, has sharply decreased.
Due to the mobilization of men to army, beekeeping is now primarily done by women who don’t have sufficient knowledge. For this reason,it is necessary to develop innovative approaches to beekeeping in these new realities, including addressing the current problems of restoring beekeeping in Ukraine regions affected by the war. These approaches should be taught in e-textbooks and made accessible to many people.
Innovative Lectures and Workbook
for Specialized Courses in the Education System
Will be available from February 8, 2026
Preparation, review, and publication of 12 multimedia innovative lectures for Specialized Courses, covering beekeeping restoration in war-affected regions, including the impact of environmental pollution from weapons on bee technology and maintenance; health and reproduction; organic beekeeping and save pollinator; safety and quality of bee products; and apitherapy for health restoration, particularly for veterans.