Overview
This four-month intensive training course addresses all aspects involved in developing beekeeping into a powerful factor of rural development. Students learn the crucial tricks of the art of beekeeping and the production of high quality bee products. They are also taught how to diversify market products, approach the local population and engage them in beekeeping. Other topics include ensuring the provision of sufficient sources of nectar and pollen; linking beekeeping with farming and nature conservation; good contacts with policymakers and authorities; and channels for attracting finance. An interdisciplinary attitude is a key feature of the programme.
Notwithstanding its academic level, the training programme is fully molded to substantive application in rural areas. Students are asked to present the problems of beekeeping in their region or country at the beginning of the course. At the end they have the opportunity to formulate specific solutions in discussion with the group and the lecturers. There are trips to renowned bee research centres and apiarists in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. Several excursions with and towards related enterprises are organized. There is plenty of room for exchanging views and experiences.
The detailed list of the courses is as follows: Morphology of Apis mellifera; Taxonomy and Biology of Tropical Bees; Technological Aspects of Apiculture; Pathology and Parasitology of Bees; Genetics and Selection of Bees; Bee botany; Practical Course in Queen Rearing; Practical Beekeeping; Ecology of Pollination; Nectar and Pollen Sources; Introduction in Palynology; Bee Products (Harvest Methodology, Applications and Quality Control); Diversification of Bee Products; Rural Development and Agricultural Economy; Participative Methods and Project Cycle Management; Medical aspects of bees and bee products; Finding Funding.
Admission requirements
Holders of a bachelor’s degree with experience in beekeeping that wish to implement beekeeping for rural development purposes. Good written and spoken command in English. Candidates meeting any of the following profiles are preferred:
• Researchers connected to local universities or research institutes, preferably with a clear link to extension;
• Staff members of extension centers, NGOs or other institutions actively involved in rural development and with some (applied) research facilities;
• People who have recently completed their studies and have a firm intention to commit themselves to rural development.
Type of certificate
A certificate attesting the participation of the student and listing the topics of the training.
Application and selection procedure
Applicants applying for both academic admission and a VLIR-UOS scholarship need to consider both the admission requirements and the scholarship criteria.
Applicants applying for academic admission but not for a scholarship simply need to fulfill only the admission requirements of the host university running the programme.
The host university is in charge of the academic admission of applications. Study results will be taken into consideration during the selection, but the most important academic selection criteria are relevant professional experience and prospects for applying the acquired insights after return to the developing country. The academic admission requirements are specific to every programme. Please peruse the requirements from the relevant programme.
A joint selection committee of VLIR-UOS and the host university is responsible for selecting scholarships. The host university – not the applicant – forwards the scholarship applications to the VLIR-UOS secretariat if the academic admission requirements are met. The VLIR-UOS scholarship criteria relate to the qualifications required of all scholarship applicants and selection criteria evaluated by the selection committee. Download the VLIR-UOS scholarship criteria at the bottom of this page.
All applicants receive an acknowledgement of receipt of their applications.
you must follow the correct and complete procedure below.
- Apply on the VLIR-UOS website via the pre-screening form: fill in name, birth date, country, etc…;
- Receive a VLIR-UOS application/file number by return e-mail from VLIR-UOS;
- Apply on the website from the host university through the link mentioned in the return e-mail from VLIR-UOS;
- Write the received VLIR-UOS application/file number on the application file from the host university;
Send a printout of your application file along with all required documents (diploma transcripts, motivation, etc…) to the International Office of the host university, not to VLIR-UOS.
- Applications that are incomplete, illegible or that reach the host university’s International Office after the deadline will be automatically rejected.
Further detail
Contact:
Mrs. I. Roman
Laboratory of Zoophysiology
Ghent University
T +32 (0)9 264 49 28
F +32 (0)2 264 49 38
inge.roman@ugent.be
http://www.zoofysiologie.ugent.be
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
This four-month intensive training course addresses all aspects involved in developing beekeeping into a powerful factor of rural development. Students learn the crucial tricks of the art of beekeeping and the production of high quality bee products. They are also taught how to diversify market products, approach the local population and engage them in beekeeping. Other topics include ensuring the provision of sufficient sources of nectar and pollen; linking beekeeping with farming and nature conservation; good contacts with policymakers and authorities; and channels for attracting finance. An interdisciplinary attitude is a key feature of the programme.
Notwithstanding its academic level, the training programme is fully molded to substantive application in rural areas. Students are asked to present the problems of beekeeping in their region or country at the beginning of the course. At the end they have the opportunity to formulate specific solutions in discussion with the group and the lecturers. There are trips to renowned bee research centres and apiarists in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands. Several excursions with and towards related enterprises are organized. There is plenty of room for exchanging views and experiences.
The detailed list of the courses is as follows: Morphology of Apis mellifera; Taxonomy and Biology of Tropical Bees; Technological Aspects of Apiculture; Pathology and Parasitology of Bees; Genetics and Selection of Bees; Bee botany; Practical Course in Queen Rearing; Practical Beekeeping; Ecology of Pollination; Nectar and Pollen Sources; Introduction in Palynology; Bee Products (Harvest Methodology, Applications and Quality Control); Diversification of Bee Products; Rural Development and Agricultural Economy; Participative Methods and Project Cycle Management; Medical aspects of bees and bee products; Finding Funding.
Admission requirements
Holders of a bachelor’s degree with experience in beekeeping that wish to implement beekeeping for rural development purposes. Good written and spoken command in English. Candidates meeting any of the following profiles are preferred:
• Researchers connected to local universities or research institutes, preferably with a clear link to extension;
• Staff members of extension centers, NGOs or other institutions actively involved in rural development and with some (applied) research facilities;
• People who have recently completed their studies and have a firm intention to commit themselves to rural development.
Type of certificate
A certificate attesting the participation of the student and listing the topics of the training.
Application and selection procedure
Applicants applying for both academic admission and a VLIR-UOS scholarship need to consider both the admission requirements and the scholarship criteria.
Applicants applying for academic admission but not for a scholarship simply need to fulfill only the admission requirements of the host university running the programme.
The host university is in charge of the academic admission of applications. Study results will be taken into consideration during the selection, but the most important academic selection criteria are relevant professional experience and prospects for applying the acquired insights after return to the developing country. The academic admission requirements are specific to every programme. Please peruse the requirements from the relevant programme.
A joint selection committee of VLIR-UOS and the host university is responsible for selecting scholarships. The host university – not the applicant – forwards the scholarship applications to the VLIR-UOS secretariat if the academic admission requirements are met. The VLIR-UOS scholarship criteria relate to the qualifications required of all scholarship applicants and selection criteria evaluated by the selection committee. Download the VLIR-UOS scholarship criteria at the bottom of this page.
All applicants receive an acknowledgement of receipt of their applications.
you must follow the correct and complete procedure below.
- Apply on the VLIR-UOS website via the pre-screening form: fill in name, birth date, country, etc…;
- Receive a VLIR-UOS application/file number by return e-mail from VLIR-UOS;
- Apply on the website from the host university through the link mentioned in the return e-mail from VLIR-UOS;
- Write the received VLIR-UOS application/file number on the application file from the host university;
Send a printout of your application file along with all required documents (diploma transcripts, motivation, etc…) to the International Office of the host university, not to VLIR-UOS.
- Applications that are incomplete, illegible or that reach the host university’s International Office after the deadline will be automatically rejected.
Further detail
Contact:
Mrs. I. Roman
Laboratory of Zoophysiology
Ghent University
T +32 (0)9 264 49 28
F +32 (0)2 264 49 38
inge.roman@ugent.be
http://www.zoofysiologie.ugent.be
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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