Walk on a Bee Path and learn a city Bee Story

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Discover the presence of bees in the centre of Amarante, from the nature that feeds them to the products they supply us! Nothing better than walking the city streets together with BeePathNet on its pedestrian route. Along the dynamic and interactive route, points of interest related to the route will be triggered through a Bluetooth signal. Along this suggested route you will be able to visit points of sale of bee products, be dazzled by the forest park full of pollinators, visit the honey garden in the city centre and much more.

In Bydgoszcz the ambition is to create a lively Bee Path that combines sites in the city that are bee-friendly and where apiaries can be visited. The idea is to combine the green goods that Bydgoszcz is abundant in with the ecological education. For now, and for the future, the City activities focus on two areas, namely increasing people's awareness on bees and wild pollinators through ecological education and shaping urban habitats aimed at increasing biodiversity, food base and habitat for bees and pollinators.

A map to discover and know more about the bee world and bee products in Cesena and surrounding areas. Within the BeePathNet project the Municipality of Cesena realized an ambitious map in a digital and paper version, with information about apitourism and where to find products and experiences linked to bees and bee products. The Cesena map is the first attempt to create an experiential tourism led by the BeePathNet project, a real path with tastings, sightseeing and flavours within the urban area of Cesena and surroundings.

Recognizing the wonderful endowments of our district and the dangers that pollinators are facing, as well as the love of nature that exists not only in the municipality, but also in the people living in Hegyvidék, we thought to make Hegyvidék bee-friendly and pollinator-friendly in cooperation with the residents and professionals. That is why the path has its interactive stops where visitors and passers-by can learn something about how to create a healthy environment for bees and other pollinators in urban areas including the importance of pollination and pollinators.

Beekeeping has been present in the area of today's Municipality of Ljubljana since prehistory. Ljubljana, with all of its wealth of green areas and environmental consciousness offers a home to the bees and a quality development. With the “The Bee in Ljubljana” programme, the city is taking care of the development of beekeeping, organises various promotional events, and educates the youngest population within the API kindergarten school programme.

BeePath of Nea Propontida invites citizens and visitors in order to guide them in the unique story of Greek honey, beekeeping and bees through tradition, art, nature and bee games! While walking through the path, visitors can meet with the long local tradition of beekeeping and admire traditional beekeeping tools and continue their tour in the city of Nea Moudania. The Bee sculpture and several paintings on public buildings will be from now on the symbols of devotion and gratitude to our precious pollinators.

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Newsletters' thematic articles:   Bees and pollination are important factors for biodiversity as well as in the economy Teaching the youngest to take care of the environment will green each street of your city Awareness raising in the athropocene: defending the bees is defending ourselves Apitourism an alternative, enjoyable and challenging activity for demanding citizens and tourists! The World Bee Day 2020 - #BeTheBee! - inspiring ideas for celebration in COVID era The power of Honey (new products)

The City of Ljubljana successfully addressed challenges such as increased pollution, loss of natural resources and a decrease of biodiversity…, by creating a network of 35 voluntary members from various backgrounds (e.g. beekeepers, educational, cultural and health institutions, companies, NGOs, etc.). The BEE PATH was designed in close cooperation with them to become a network of stakeholders, a touristic and educational path, an educational programme, as well as a “think-tank” and an “incubator" for development of new entrepreneurship ideas. Its’ success was rewarded when it was awarded the title of URBACT Good Practice.

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The BeePathNet – transfer network, a project supported by URBACT whose holistic approach to urban beekeeping is being transferred to five bee-friendly European cities. The BeePathNet network is creating favourable conditions for sustainable urban beekeeping, which approached the issues of preserving urban biodiversity and urban food self-sufficiency through the “bee perspective”. It connects 6 EU Cities – Ljubljana, Slovenia, as the lead partner, Amarante, Portugal, Bydgoszcz, Poland, Cesena, Italia, Nea Propontida, Greece and Hegyvídek - XII. District of Budapest, Hungary.

The partnership issued thematic newsletters on biodiversity, education, awareness raising, tourism, World Bee Day celebrations and new products. Each of them provides a comprehensive redline article, selected research to deepen your knowledge – Brainy bee, News from Bee cities, What is buzzing up and some Amazzzzing facts about Bees.

To share knowledge within the partnership and also with other cities that would like to evolve into more Bee friendly cities we developed thematic guidelines. In each of them you will find a detailed description of a specific theme developed in the City of Ljubljana, case study for the partner city, tips and tricks and all additional documentation to support the knowledge transfer. They are published on https://urbact.eu/beepathnet.

 

Vesna Erhart, Zavod EKOmeter

Each city is the author of its own Bee Path map