The European Beekeeping Association (EBA) established its Scientific Committee on Safety and Quality of Bee Products and Scientific Committee on Bee Health, and we are pleased to report that the committees has already made enthusiastic progress in its work.
As the EBA continues to expand its efforts in various areas of European beekeeping, the need for additional specialized committees has become apparent. In light of this, we are excited to announce the formation of the Scientific Committee on Apitherapy and invite applications for membership.
Apitherapy is complementary scientific discipline of traditional medicine, mostly created based on the centuries-old experience of people who lived in close contact with bees. It combines preventive and therapeutic methods which are based on the application of bee products: pollen, royal jelly, honey, propolis, bee venom and wax for the purpose preserving and improving human health. Bees product it best used preventively and prophylactically, in order to maintain health. The use of bee products for preventive and therapeutic purposes dates back to the time when man existed, and the need for this area to be instructed by the knowledge of professionall and educated people is another step for the EBA to base its work on the views of professional people in that field. Apitherapy, as a modern, integrative method in the function of human health, occupies everything a more significant place within the methods of traditional medicine in the modern approach to caring for the health of the human population.
If you are passionate about contributing to our mission, we invite you to apply for membership on the Scientific Committee on Apitherapy. Please submit a brief application (maximum 300 words) to eba@ebaeurope.eu by December 15th, 2024. Your application should include a statement of motivation, your area of expertise, and a brief list of references highlighting your professional or academic contributions in the field of Apitherapy. One of the tasks of future members of the EBA SC on Apitherapy would be to prepare short texts on the scientifically confirmed effects of bee products, in order to market them through the media and raise awareness of the importance of using bee products. The texts would be prepared, at intervals of one article every two months for each member.
We look forward to your participation.
Boštjan Noč
President of the European Beekeeping Association
GENERAL SPONSOR OF THE EBA
SILVER SPONSOR OF THE EBA
SILVER SPONSOR OF THE EBA
BRONZE SPONSOR OF THE EBA
