Senior Expert Corps – a Project of Swisscontact Promoting entrepreneurship through expertise – Imparting technical skills through volunteer work
The retired professionals of our Senior Expert Corps (SEC) are qualified experts on site. Through their consulting services, they provide hands-on, cost-effective support towards sustainable development of companies and institutions.
SEC Assignment in Kosovo , 2016 Assignment No. 2847
Location Peja, Kosovo
Client Beekeeping equipment and honeybee products
Expert Peter Gallmann, retired director of Swiss Bee Research Centre
Period 20.06. - 02.07.2016
The company is a family business with activities in beekeeping equipment
and honeybee products. The parents and owner of the company are beekeepers themselves. Two sons and 4 employees are working in the Profile production hall and the attached shop. They produce mainly honey and wax foundations and they already did some first developments of bee products
Client for medical care. They approached SEC for support in Apitherapy knowledge.
General knowledge on apitherapy and corresponding products: - Apitherapy as Naturopathy: history, development, effect of bee products - Legal limits and possibilities Tasks - The products in detail, application, production, quality issues - Procurement of quality raw materials, ie the inclusion of beekeepers
We discussed future business options and the plans for a new factory. Based on my presentations we considered all possible apitherapy products
based on honey, pollen, beebread, propolis, wax, royal jelly, bee venom, hive air and others. Thereby we encountered some problems in the
Results surrounding, especially kind of beekeeping and nature of farming. At the end, we produced a summery of our discussion and we pointed on which the future work will focus in a first, second and third step.