For the purpose of educating children and their parents about the importance of consuming honey as well as including honey in the diet, Paying Agency for Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development published Public call for expressions of interest of the founders of school institutions to participate in the School Honey Day Program from Croatian Apiaries for 2023.
The programme will be implemented throughout the territory of the Republic of Croatia in the first grades of primary schools, on 7 December 2023.
The programme aims to:
- promotion of honey from local producers packed in the National jar,
- increasing the intake of honey in the diet of children,
- raising the level of knowledge about the importance of honey as an integral part of a proper and nutritionally more favorable diet,
- educating students about the importance of beekeeping for overall agricultural production and biodiversity.
The founders of school institutions have the right to participate in the Public Call:
- Republic of Croatia
- local self-government units
- regional self-government units
- other legal or natural persons
The public call is open until 1 October 2023.
The text of the call with supporting documents is available here.
