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Traducción: Julia Casado, Noa Philippon Salinas, Blanca Berzosa
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The Right to Be(e) competition for the best activity to help the bees is now closed. The winner was EYAS and their creative Twitter campaign to promote the importance of bees. All results are shown below. Congratulations to all participants!
Stay tuned for more bee activities!
ENTRY MODELS
Games about bees and planting action in Toulcuv Dvur
Who organised the activity: YEE office
When it took place: 22 April 2016
Where it took place: Toulcuv Dvur, Prague (Czech Republic)
What happened: On the Earth Day celebration YEE prepared a few activities for children. We had n ongoing workshop on making paper bees (which they could stick to flower pots), a game about the fruits and vegetables we can find in the garden that can be pollinated by bees, bee face painting. We also organised a planting action in the farm with the children through which we planted sunflower seeds and greenpea seeds.
Why do you want to help the bees: because they help us in so many ways and they contribute significantly to the health of our planet.
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Planting flowers in Macedonia
Who organised the activity: Vladimir Jordanov
When it took place: 17 May 2016
Where it took place: Stip, Macedonia
What happened: I planted a bee-friendly Gerbera Daisy flower in the garden of my house
Why do you want to help the bees: to have balanced and healthy ecosystems
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COMPETITION ENTRIES:
Planting flowers beside the trees on the city's sidewalk
Who organised the activity: EDEN Center
When it took place: 6 May 2016
Where it took place: Tirana, Albania
What happened: For the campaign we planted some flowers with the intention to increase the awareness regarding the bee issue by asking the interested ones to donate flowers to be planted beside the trees on the sidewalk as we did. Find out more here.
Why do you want to help the bees: we want to highlight the importance that the bees represent for the nature as well as humans; a reason why we are part on the campaign too.
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Actvities for the bees in Serbian elementary schools
Who organised the activity: Two elementary schools from Sombor, Serbia.
When it took place: 21 May 2016
Where it took place: It took place in our school, both in biology classroom and in school garden.
What happened: We talked about biodiversity and the importance of bees in human life and in nature in general. Also we talked about global problem-disappearing of bees, and thus to that we watched this video. After that we planted some flowering plants in our school garden. Also, we made few interesting magnets with bee, flower and hive motives that are now in our biology classroom, and in our homes.
Why do you want to help the bees: Importance of bees in life of all living creatures is enormous. They provide us food, they provide food to animals and reproduction to flowering plants. Without bees our life would be very different from this that we live now. So if we want to change nothing and to have various food in our plates, we need to help and protect the bees.
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Twitter campaign about the importance of bees
Who organised the activity: EYAS Young European Association for International Cooperation
When it took place: From 5th – 11th June 2016
Where it took place: Zaragoza and Madrid, Spain
What happened: We launched an online twitter campaign raising awareness about the protection of bees. It was a 7 days campaign, starting on the Environmental World Day (5thJune). We structured the campaign in 7 topics, answering with facts to these question:
Day 1: Why bees are so important?
Day 2: Why bees can disappear?
Day 3: Inspiring initiatives for the protection of bees
Day 4: What can we do for bees? Supporting this topic we planted 2 flower plants on the roofs of Madrid (photo)
Day 5: Let's share bee friendly workshop ideas
Day 6: Support your local community. Supporting this topic the team bought local honey in Zaragoza (photo)
Day 7: Spread the message!
The language used was Spanish. We reached 60 people and organizations directly, having likes and retweets JWe also mentioned organizations such @Greenpeace_Es @ONU_es and @UN to have more impact. The account for the campaign was @eyas_europe and the following hashtags were used: #RightToBee #salvemoslasabejas #SOSabejas #DMMA2016
Why do you want to help the bees: Because they balance nature and keep biodiversity.
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Having a bee-friendly garden with a wild corner
Who organized the activity? Ylona Erard
When it took place: 10th of June 2016
Where it took place: Drome, France
What happened: In the back of my garden, we have two beehives. This year I decided to let a part of the garden growing wild and it turned into beautiful wild flowers. They are really appreciated by bees and bumblebees that are buzzing all around.
Why do you want to help the bees? Because I am not sure people realize how important they are. How would be my garden without bees? How would be nature without bees?
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Raising awareness on bees with online activities and meeting of beekeepers and strawberry farmers
Area Yvibisi and Daba, Georgia
We were inviting for participation every interested person to share with us their activities.They were supposed to take pictures and sent to us. We get very interesting photos from young people who shared with us their thoughts and experiences.
We visited village Kvibisi ,which is located near the Borjomi on 900 meters above sea level.There, we met one of the member of the Devidze family , they are 4-th generation beekeepers .There, in a clean environment, this family is following beekeeping and they are keeping about 100 beehives. As miss Marina told us : "Taking care of bees is a great art and consuming affair. In Devidze family, beekeeping is a tradition. My father had taught me the art of beekeeping and now I'm trying to teach it to young generations of my family and share my experience. The boys have accumulated considerable experience. Beekeeping is a practical affair and requires a lot of attention and experience gained through hard working. Scientists are often visiting us and they are completing their theoretical studies with exploring and observing our practical work. I will be happy if young people will be involved in this work and, for my part, I will share with them my experience .In my opinion in every village there should be one or two beekeeping family." Miss Marina gave us some helpful tips about beekeeping : about how important is to keep them in clean environment ,to avoid chemicals on fruits they use for food, to avoid feeding them with artificial food like sugar and etc. After rich informational conversation, we took some pictures and continued on our way to the next destination.
Near the woods is situated a cooperative of strawberry farms,where they are growing eco friendly ,clean and unpolluted strawberries and other kinds of berries. This farm was founded within United Nations Development Programme grant by Irma Maghradze .The project aims to strengthen the capacity of forest-dependent local communities, so that they can create and develop alternative livelihoods through the sustainable use of forest resources. The idea of strawberry farm was Irmas discovery, before this she had a little garden of strawberries next to her home, and she says that to be high level from the sea level is great for berries. That's why she decided to make a farm in this place.The local youngsters are actively involved in this project and they shared their impressions about thei work with excitement.
Miss Irma hosted us and shared her experience with Georgia Youth Eco Movement-SAEMs members. She invited us to see strawberry fields and she gave us to try bright red, perfectly shaped strawberries, She presented masterclass and we were talking about how pollination by the insects increases the quality and shelf life of strawberries, as the honey bees living nearby strawberries field. As we know pollination promotes cell division and growth, increasing weight and firmness of the fruit. She explained us how to take care of berries and how important is role of bees during the strawberry flowering period.
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MORE ACTIVITIES FOR THE RIGHT TO BE(E) CAMPAIGN!
Even though the competition is over, there are still wonderful activities across Europe to help the bees. Read about them below!
LEARNING ABOUT HONEY AND BEEKEEPING
Who organised the activity: Ana Markovska
When it took place: June 2016
Where it took place: Novo Selo, Skopje, Macedonia
What happened: I went to visit a local producer of organic honey near Skopje and buy several jars of it. The reason for this is that by buying local-produced honey, I know what and from where I am getting the product. In addition, I also decrease the environmental impact of my consumer habits. I learned about the beekeeper in Novo Selo from a friend and during my visit, he was kind enough to answer many questions that I had, and also to show me how he makes the organic honey.
Why do you want to help the bees: The simplest answer and the most truthful is that if we don't help the bees, the world as we know will cease to exist. Bees are small yet hard-working insects that keep our eco-system together.
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We prepared a few guidelines presenting examples of urban activities that you can make in order to help the bees. They are here only for your inspiration - feel free to try other ideas. Put your knowledge, creativity and concern for the bees to good use. :)
Text: Esther Vallado, Natalia Luchko, Judit Suveges, Vladimir Jordanov, Ruzanna Manyan, Jovana Mirjanić, Tijana Ljubenovic
Design: Roxana Nica
Activities guidelines available in Spanish language
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In spring 2016, we planned a competition throughout Europe, encouraging people to organise actions that help the bees in urban areas. We invited all member organisations and YEE friends to take part in our campaign within their communities.
The activities took place in April and May 2016. We collected materials from all teams, promoted them within the YEE network and included them in this year's bee competition for best activity to help the bees. The winner was EYAS and their creative Twitter campaign to promote the importance of bees. All results are shown below. Congratulations to all participants!
You can find below the activities organised by all participants within the campaign, as well as other useful materials for inspiration.
Keep buzzing!
ENTRY MODELS
Games about bees and planting action in Toulcuv Dvur
Who organised the activity: YEE office
When it took place: 22 April 2016
Where it took place: Toulcuv Dvur, Prague (Czech Republic)
What happened: On the Earth Day celebration YEE prepared a few activities for children. We had n ongoing workshop on making paper bees (which they could stick to flower pots), a game about the fruits and vegetables we can find in the garden that can be pollinated by bees, bee face painting. We also organised a planting action in the farm with the children through which we planted sunflower seeds and greenpea seeds.
Why do you want to help the bees: because they help us in so many ways and they contribute significantly to the health of our planet.
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Planting flowers in Macedonia
Who organised the activity: Vladimir Jordanov
When it took place: 17 May 2016
Where it took place: Stip, Macedonia
What happened: I planted a bee-friendly Gerbera Daisy flower in the garden of my house
Why do you want to help the bees: to have balanced and healthy ecosystems
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COMPETITION ENTRIES:
Planting flowers beside the trees on the city's sidewalk
Who organised the activity: EDEN Center
When it took place: 6 May 2016
Where it took place: Tirana, Albania
What happened: For the campaign we planted some flowers with the intention to increase the awareness regarding the bee issue by asking the interested ones to donate flowers to be planted beside the trees on the sidewalk as we did. Find out more here.
Why do you want to help the bees: we want to highlight the importance that the bees represent for the nature as well as humans; a reason why we are part on the campaign too.
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Actvities for the bees in Serbian elementary schools
Who organised the activity: Two elementary schools from Sombor, Serbia.
When it took place: 21 May 2016
Where it took place: It took place in our school, both in biology classroom and in school garden.
What happened: We talked about biodiversity and the importance of bees in human life and in nature in general. Also we talked about global problem-disappearing of bees, and thus to that we watched this video. After that we planted some flowering plants in our school garden. Also, we made few interesting magnets with bee, flower and hive motives that are now in our biology classroom, and in our homes.
Why do you want to help the bees: Importance of bees in life of all living creatures is enormous. They provide us food, they provide food to animals and reproduction to flowering plants. Without bees our life would be very different from this that we live now. So if we want to change nothing and to have various food in our plates, we need to help and protect the bees.
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Twitter campaign about the importance of bees
Who organised the activity: EYAS Young European Association for International Cooperation
When it took place: From 5th – 11th June 2016
Where it took place: Zaragoza and Madrid, Spain
What happened: We launched an online twitter campaign raising awareness about the protection of bees. It was a 7 days campaign, starting on the Environmental World Day (5thJune). We structured the campaign in 7 topics, answering with facts to these question:
Day 1: Why bees are so important?
Day 2: Why bees can disappear?
Day 3: Inspiring initiatives for the protection of bees
Day 4: What can we do for bees? Supporting this topic we planted 2 flower plants on the roofs of Madrid (photo)
Day 5: Let's share bee friendly workshop ideas
Day 6: Support your local community. Supporting this topic the team bought local honey in Zaragoza (photo)
Day 7: Spread the message!
The language used was Spanish. We reached 60 people and organizations directly, having likes and retweets JWe also mentioned organizations such @Greenpeace_Es @ONU_es and @UN to have more impact. The account for the campaign was @eyas_europe and the following hashtags were used: #RightToBee #salvemoslasabejas #SOSabejas #DMMA2016
Why do you want to help the bees: Because they balance nature and keep biodiversity.
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Having a bee-friendly garden with a wild corner
Who organized the activity? Ylona Erard
When it took place: 10th of June 2016
Where it took place: Drome, France
What happened: In the back of my garden, we have two beehives. This year I decided to let a part of the garden growing wild and it turned into beautiful wild flowers. They are really appreciated by bees and bumblebees that are buzzing all around.
Why do you want to help the bees? Because I am not sure people realize how important they are. How would be my garden without bees? How would be nature without bees?
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Raising awareness on bees with online activities and meeting of beekeepers and strawberry farmers
Area Yvibisi and Daba, Georgia
We were inviting for participation every interested person to share with us their activities.They were supposed to take pictures and sent to us. We get very interesting photos from young people who shared with us their thoughts and experiences.
We visited village Kvibisi ,which is located near the Borjomi on 900 meters above sea level.There, we met one of the member of the Devidze family , they are 4-th generation beekeepers .There, in a clean environment, this family is following beekeeping and they are keeping about 100 beehives. As miss Marina told us : "Taking care of bees is a great art and consuming affair. In Devidze family, beekeeping is a tradition. My father had taught me the art of beekeeping and now I'm trying to teach it to young generations of my family and share my experience. The boys have accumulated considerable experience. Beekeeping is a practical affair and requires a lot of attention and experience gained through hard working. Scientists are often visiting us and they are completing their theoretical studies with exploring and observing our practical work. I will be happy if young people will be involved in this work and, for my part, I will share with them my experience .In my opinion in every village there should be one or two beekeeping family." Miss Marina gave us some helpful tips about beekeeping : about how important is to keep them in clean environment ,to avoid chemicals on fruits they use for food, to avoid feeding them with artificial food like sugar and etc. After rich informational conversation, we took some pictures and continued on our way to the next destination.
Near the woods is situated a cooperative of strawberry farms,where they are growing eco friendly ,clean and unpolluted strawberries and other kinds of berries. This farm was founded within United Nations Development Programme grant by Irma Maghradze .The project aims to strengthen the capacity of forest-dependent local communities, so that they can create and develop alternative livelihoods through the sustainable use of forest resources. The idea of strawberry farm was Irmas discovery, before this she had a little garden of strawberries next to her home, and she says that to be high level from the sea level is great for berries. That's why she decided to make a farm in this place.The local youngsters are actively involved in this project and they shared their impressions about thei work with excitement.
Miss Irma hosted us and shared her experience with Georgia Youth Eco Movement-SAEMs members. She invited us to see strawberry fields and she gave us to try bright red, perfectly shaped strawberries, She presented masterclass and we were talking about how pollination by the insects increases the quality and shelf life of strawberries, as the honey bees living nearby strawberries field. As we know pollination promotes cell division and growth, increasing weight and firmness of the fruit. She explained us how to take care of berries and how important is role of bees during the strawberry flowering period.
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MORE ACTIVITIES FOR THE RIGHT TO BE(E) CAMPAIGN!
Even though the competition is over, there are still wonderful activities across Europe to help the bees. Read about them below!
LEARNING ABOUT HONEY AND BEEKEEPING
Who organised the activity: Ana Markovska
When it took place: June 2016
Where it took place: Novo Selo, Skopje, Macedonia
What happened: I went to visit a local producer of organic honey near Skopje and buy several jars of it. The reason for this is that by buying local-produced honey, I know what and from where I am getting the product. In addition, I also decrease the environmental impact of my consumer habits. I learned about the beekeeper in Novo Selo from a friend and during my visit, he was kind enough to answer many questions that I had, and also to show me how he makes the organic honey.
Why do you want to help the bees: The simplest answer and the most truthful is that if we don't help the bees, the world as we know will cease to exist. Bees are small yet hard-working insects that keep our eco-system together.
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Check out:
The Right to Be(e) poster 2016
In 2015 The Right to Be(e) campaign invited everybody who supports the bees to organise a planting action.
Read here about planting events happening all over Europe!
Small rooftop garden at the ecological centre Toulcuv Dvur, Prague
Date of planting: 10 May
Who took part: YEE office
What did you plant: Vegetables (tomato, cucumber, zucchini, eggplant) and strawberries
Where did you plant it: Small urban rooftop garden at the ecological centre Toulcuv Dvur, Prague, Czech Republic
Why do you want to help bees? We are corncerned about the colony collapse disorder and we believe that everyone should come together to help bees
Zara's planting action, Yerevan, Armenia
Date of planting: 14 May 2015
Who took part: Zaruhi Stepanyan
What did you plant: Datura wrightii
Where did you plant it: In a green area near my house in Yerevan, Armenia
Why do you want to help bees? Because the bees are a very important part of our ecosystem
Planting action in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Date of planting: 19 May 2015
Who took part: Cluj team - Andra, Ellie and Roxana
What did you plant: Cucumber
Where did you plant it: In a green area on the outskirts of Cluj
Why do you want to help bees? Because they play an important role in our day-to-day life. We wouldn't have all these delicious fruits and vegetables without bees.
Elementary school ''Nikola Vukićević'' from Sombor, Serbia
Date of planting: 23 May 2015
Who took part: Elementary school students together with their biology teacher Ena Horvat from Sombor, Serbia
What did you plant: Lavandula angustifolia, Matricaria chamomile, Melisa officinalis, Mentha piperita, Rosmarinus officinalis, Origanum vulgare
Where did you plant it: In our school garden in Sombor, Serbia
Why do you want to help bees? Bees provides us food: fruits, vegetables, crops as well as honey, propolis and royal jelly, so we owe them so much! The least we can do is to plant a few plants and to make the city a better place for them!
Jessica's windows box planting, London
Date of planting: 21 May 2015
Who took part: Jessica Massucco
What did you plant: Sweet pea
Where did you plant it: On the streets of East London, UK (in my window box)
Why do you want to help bees? Because they seem to be doing a good job. Also just because I love bees.
Biodiversa planting action, Asturias, Spain
Date of planting: May 23 2015
Who took part: Biodiversa NGO organized the action as part of a TC named "Connecting with Nature"
What did you plant: Lavender, thyme and rosemary
Where did you plant it: In Valeru which is a voillage in Asturias located at the north of Spain
Why do you want to help bees? Because people have the "bad habit" of eating fruits and jam and cheese and drink juices, without bees these thigs will be out of our table in short time.
Primary school "Simeon Aranicki" from Stara Pazova, Serbia
Date of planting: 12 May 2015
Who took part: Pupils from 5 to 7 grade, as a part of our biology course in our school "Simeon Aranicki" Stara Pazova, Serbia
What did you plant: Salvia, lavandula, ocimum, tagetes
Where did you plant it: 1st step- our classrom, 2nd step- school garden
Why do you want to help bees? We are young biologists who are worried about the well-being of bees and that is why we are ofering our help.
Anja's planting action in Hamburg, Germany
Date of planting: 22 May 2015
Who took part: Only me, but our whole street had a planting action this week with different kinds of flowers
What did you plant: Bell flowers (different species, 1 purple 1 white)
Where did you plant it: On my balcony
Why do you want to help bees? Especially in cities, green areas and flowers are fragmented. By planting flowers, you can support the bees in finding pollen and nectar by giving them a "green and blossoming corridor" which they can use to migrate from park to park.
FYCA planting action, Yerevan, Armenia
Date of planting: 14 May 2015
Who took part: Office staff
What did you plant: Daisy, Forget-me-not
Where did you plant it: Near our office in Yerevan
Why do you want to help bees? Because in Armenia we are using honey too much
Ruzanna's planting action, Yerevan, Armenia
Date of planting: 21 May 2015
Who took part: Members of Yeghvard NGO, pupils
What did you plant: Dianthus, Dahlia, Petunia
Where did you plant it: School garden
Why do you want to help bees? Why not? :) Without bees biodiversity would not be so great
Elementary school "Ivo Lola Ribar" from Novi Sad, Serbia
Date of planting: 25 May 2015
Who took part: 6th grade students of elementary school "Ivo Lola Ribar" Novi Sad, Serbia
What did you plant: Rosmarinus, Melissa, Lavandula, Mentha, Thymus
Where did you plant it: School garden
Why do you want to help bees? We live in a big city, where there aren t many bees and wee all know bees are extremely useful
IPAS planting action in Durres, Albania
Date of planting: 27 June
Who took part: IPAS Team (Lori, Rezi and Elsiona)
What did you plant: Fidelity, Thumbergia Fragrans, Brunfelsia Grandiflora
Where did you plant it: Urban area in Durres
Why do you want to help bees? Bees give a very important contribution for human kind, providing honey, one of the most healthiest products we consume. They are an irreplaceable component of the ecosystem.
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