Duration
20h Mon. WS, 20h AUTR
Number of credits
| Inter-university certificate in apiculture | 3 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
All year long
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The content is a case study to be performed (Section 6). It involves the preparation of a practical case study in the field by each student concerning bee health.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
After the case-study, students will have acquired:
- knowledge for understanding the role of bees in pollination and biodiversity;
- basic, theoretical and practical, knowledge of the honeybee and its conduction as well as the management of the quality and thesafety of bee products, including regulatory aspects;
- methodological know-how to calculate the mortality of bee colonies and to assess risks in beekeeping;
- practical skills to handle bee colonies and for the purpose of the diagnostic research, sampling or experimentation;
- knowledge of health and bee pathology;
- skils to implement sanitary measures to prevent and control mortality and honeybees
- ability to carry a health audit in an apiary.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Doctors of veterinary medicine, bio-engineers and biologists interested in beekeeping or owner of any equivalent degree.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Study a practical case.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Personnal work of the student.
Recommended or required readings
An assessment of a personal work of each student having followed all modules (beekeeping case study). This case study necessarily requires the completion of practical activities
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
Courses are given if at least 8 students are registered.
Contacts
Promoteur-coordinateur et formateur : claude.saegerman@uliege.be
Promoteurs et formateurs : frederic.francis@uliege.be et claude.bragard@uclouvain.be
Autres formateurs :
dominique.bonnevie@upv.be
bruneau@cari.be
antoine.clinquart@uliege.be
Dirk.deGraaf@UGent.be
jdetilleux@uliege.be
nelagrebi@uliege.be
mmgarigliany@uliege.be
nicolas.gengler@uliege.be
thierry.hance@uclouvain.be
e.haubruge@uliege.be
jlhornick@uliege.be
bmignon@uliege.be
BK.Nguyen@uliege.be
christian.quinet@arsia.be
bruno.schiffers@uliege.be
mlscippo@uliege.be
etienne.thiry@uliege.be
bruno.urbain@fagg-afmps.be
A.vdplasschen@uliege.be
fverheggen@uliege.be