LEN, 5 (EUROPA PRESS)
A total of 23 students have completed the expert beekeeper course of the Diputación de León and the National University of Distance Education (UNED) after a year of theoretical and practical training and are now beginning the entrepreneurship phase with an individualized tutoring program during the first two years of activity.
The provincial institution has subsidized 75 percent of the cost of the course, which amounts to 950 euros, to 19 of these people (seven women), residing in municipalities in the province of León with less than 20,000 inhabitants, as detailed by the Provincial Council in a statement sent to Europa Press.
The vice-president and deputy for Social Rights and Sustainable Territory, Carolina López, has participated in the closing ceremony of this course, which is in its first edition promoted by the provincial institution and the UNED of Ponferrada. Along with the technical training in beekeeping, the students have also taken a module on marketing and another on entrepreneurship.
Now begins the entrepreneurship phase in which students will have an individualized tutoring program during the first two years of activity with the purpose of fulfilling the main objective of this course, which is to generate employment from the sustainable use of resources. characteristic of the territory and set population in rural areas.
The course has been developed for a full year –from March 2022 to March 2023– with a blended methodology and a dozen practical sessions, three per season, in the Urzapa apiary and beekeeping classroom in Sueros de Cepeda, in the Sardonal de Almagarinos Foundation, in the Miel de Montes space in Santa Cruz de Montes and in the Cerezales Antonino and Cinia de Cerezales del Condado Foundation, where the closing ceremony and delivery of diplomas were held.
This training action is part of the project that the León Provincial Council and the UNED are developing jointly through the Chair of Sustainable Tourism and Local Development and within the program of the León Sostenible provincial institution.
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The first degree was launched in December 2020 with the professional expert course in resin extraction and later training as an expert beekeeper was incorporated, which will begin its second edition this month, and another training course has also just begun. in social health care.
In all cases, the Provincial Council finances 75 percent of the cost of the course for residents of rural areas in Leon with the aim of promoting entrepreneurship in sustainable sectors and fixing the population, “paying special attention to women.”
The second course to obtain the title of expert in beekeeping, of 625 hours, will begin on March 15 and the registration period is open until the day before.
