INTERNATIONAL PROJECT - BANAT HONEY ROUTE

🌏 🍯 INTERNATIONAL PROJECT “Promotion of eco- and health- tourism through Banat's honey route" RORS 000240 - Banat Honey Route

▪ 🌿🐝 IPA project “Promotion of Ecological and Health Tourism through Banat's Honey Route” is implemented by Regional Development Agency South Banat as the Lead Partner, in cooperation with University of Life Sciences "King Mihai I" from Timișoara Romania, Asociatia Crescatorilor de Albine din Romania, Timiș County, Timișoara Romania and Asociatia Crescatorilor de Albine din Romania, Caras-Severin County, Resita Romania. The project is implemented within the framework of the Serbia–Romania Cross-Border Cooperation Programme INTERREG – IPA CBC Romania–Serbia.

Principal investigator: Dr Nenad Zaric

🪙 The total project value amounts to 💶 809,584.82.
Budget of the Lead Partner, Regional Development Agency South Banat is 💶355,925.15.

The project is implemented in the field of tourism and covers three regions: South Banat District in Serbia, Timiș and Caraș-Severin counties in Romania.

✅🐝 Honey and other bee products have significant potential for improving human health. A specialized scientific discipline known as apitherapy, classified as an alternative therapy, uses bee products to preserve and enhance human health. An increasing body of scientific evidence indicates that various bee products contribute to healing processes by improving circulation, reducing inflammation, and stimulating a healthy immune response.

The overall objective of the project is to develop and promote the Banat Honey Route as a new, sustainable ecological and health tourism offer in the cross-border Banat region of Serbia and Romania.

The specific objective of the project is to create a new tourism offer in the cross-border regions of the South Banat District in Serbia and the Timiș and Caraș-Severin counties in Romania.

The Banat Honey Route will be developed through:
* laboratory analysis and testing of bee products,
* promotion of the high quality and ecological and health benefits of bee products for apitherapy,
* training of beekeepers in the application of apitherapy,
* provision of multifunctional honey trailers equipped for apitherapy and inhalation apitherapy in all three regions, and
* promotion of the tourist route “Banat Honey Route” through a digital online platform.

Project implementation period:

📅 Start date: 24 June 2025
📅 End date: 24 June 2027