See what is going to buzz up in BeePathNet partner cities on the World Bee Day 2020
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23 May 2020Invitation to join and an inspiration for EU cities and their residents to join the Bee-friendly cities initiative - #BeTheBee!
This year BeePathNet partner cities World Bee Day celebrations will be, due to circumstances, partly moved from the streets to the social environment. In May we will organise several different awareness-raising campaigns, online games, webinars… But some of the activities will be organised in the following months when the safety situation calms down. Nevertheless, we need to protect our neighbourhoods and cheer up the city bees with beautiful melliferous flowers most of the year.
Read short info about the very vivid happening in partner cities or take a look at the programmes in english or local languages.
In Ljubljana (Slovenia) under the title »Young bees build the green city of Ljubljana« you can visit the exhibition of designs of hives and useful objects like souvenirs, flower pots with honey plants, carrier bags and boxes for bee products… designed by students of the Faculty of Design under the project BeeKull; hike through the city’s Bee Path, flower your balcony or public places within the initiative »Let's help the bee – plant flowers in the city«… or at least stick a Bee ribbon on your chest or FB profile.
In Cesena, the celebration of WBD 2020 will trigger their campaign “Cesena amica delle api” (Cesena – a friend of the bees; Italy) that will take place in the following months. During this freaky spring when citizens remain stuck in their houses and (re)discover the smell of clean air, the sound of birds and bees and butterflies on balconies they will share knowledge, ideas and good vibrations.
Bydgoszcz (Poland) named its campaign »Urban reality of bees and people - let’s create a more bee-friendly world«. In addition to educational short films, a brochure… they will step into citizens’ life by publishing information about bees, bee proverbs … photos will appear on LED boards at bus and tram stops as well as with special graphic that will appear on billboards on 20 May 2020.
»Amarante, a bee-friendly city« (Portugal) is a set of diversified activities seeking to raise awareness of the importance of bees in the natural world, as well as of hive products: Balcony displays of homemade bees - school children will give wings to their imagination while producing bees models, writing contests of stories about bees, online tale time, lectures, round table…
Under the title »#stayathome and become an urban gardener!« Hegyvidék (Hungary) will carry out several exciting activities by the end of May. To protect pollinators and for the benefit of the district's residents they will be seeding more than thirty melliferous plant species on multiple public green spaces; plant melliferous saplings in one of the districts’ street that can be adopted by the area residents who will spoil them with water on dry days…
In Nea Propontida (Greece), for now, »Learning from the bees and for the bees, through Aprioristic activities« will take place online, but as soon as the time is right they will launch their first aprioristic activities as a wonderful trip to gastronomy, a journey to the knowledge and contribution of the bees to pollination, a tour of the city and establishment of hotels for solitary bees, a trip to a hospitable apiary in the mountains…
There are several opportunities for cities, neighbourhoods or citizens to celebrate World Bee Day. If not for the Bees, do it for yourselves and your children’s children. So, be the Bee - join the initiative of Bee friendly cities movement!
#BeTheBee!
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