B-THENET (bthenet.eu) is the first EU-wide network for sustainable beekeeping, providing EU beekeepers and advisors with practical beekeeping solutions and training, co-developed with practising beekeepers and tailored to the respective country. The network includes 18 entities from the apiculture sector, including beekeepers’ associations, research institutes, and universities. We operate 13 National B-THENET Centres across Europe (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden) and 3 International Centres to foster the improvement of the beekeeping sector both at national and transnational levels.
Beekeeping practices are developed over three years and are continuously published on our Platform (www.bthenet.eu/platform/), each year focusing on different topics:
- Apiary Set-up/Management, Varroosis (already published)
- Colony Set-up and Daily Management/Maintenance, American Foulbrood (to be published in January 2025)
- Record-keeping, Bee Feeding and Watering, European Foulbrood (to be published in October 2025)
- Routine (Preventive) Hygiene Practices, Nosemosis, Small Hive Beetle, and Vespa velutina (to be published in 2026)
As with every round, for our upcoming October 2025 publications on Record-keeping, Bee Feeding and Watering, and European Foulbrood, we’ve created a short online survey available until the 15th of September 2024 and we would be grateful for your input. To complete it, please follow this link EUSurvey – Survey (europa.eu)
Let’s build the B-THENET Community further for a more thriving apiculture sector!