Josef Stark Scholarship Foundation Award 2008 is open until Jan 25^th 2008. 

On March 1st 2004 the bee keeping world lost one of its most eminent researchers and conservationists, with the death of Dr Josef Stark. Those present at the 1998 joint BIBBA/SICAMM conference in York, or the 1999 conference at Kirkley Hall will remember his fascinating accounts of restoring wildflower meadows through the agency of honeybees and cattle and his pioneering uses of honeybees as monitors of environmental pollution.

To commemorate his life's work a Trust Fund is established for the benefit of worthy young man and woman who have furthered the development of beekeeping and the conservation of the Dark European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera mellifera) in a spirit of which Josef would have approved of.
In accordance with his imaginative and generous approach, the board will give priority to candidates' achievements and character, as distinct from formal academic qualifications.
 

Send your suggestion before April 25th 2009

to
Secretary of Josef Stark Scholarship Foundation
Christina Stark, Dalby, Nibble gård 75591 Uppsala, Sweden.
E-post: christina@stark.st

Any contribution toward this fund would be greatly appreciated.
Please visit www.Sicamm.org homepage for account number to Bank
or contact Dorian Pritchard, president of Sicamm or Christina Stark.

 Bo W Malmgren, ordf i Josef Stark Scholarship Foundation.

In memory of Dr Josef A. Stark.
 The Josef Stark Award 2005 was given to Richard Jefferson from UK at Apimondia Congress 2005 in Ireland    

from right Professor Octaaf Van Laere, Belgium, chairman of the symposia Irish Dark Bee,  Dr Katarina Stark, Uppsala, Sweden who handled over the Award, Richard Jefferson, Whitby, UK and Eimear Burton, Ireland,  chairman of Irish Beekeepers Association.

BIBBA wishes to propose Richard Jefferson who is 18 years of age and is known to us as a quite unassuming young man.
He has been well known to the Yorkshire Beekeepers for some years as his Grandfather who is an Ex President of the Yorkshire Beekeeper's Association has been taking Richard to meetings and teaching him beekeeping since he was very small. Richard passed his Basic Beekeeping Examination when he was 14. He has carried out tasks such as making nuclei for re-queening, shook swarm preparation, taken colonies to heather and extracted honey crops. He has given demonstrations in bee's wax preparation and in the making of candles.
Richard has now taken his Advanced Education Examinations in Electronics, Mathematics, Physics and Business Studies and awaits the results in August.
He is at present in full time employment with an Electrical Engineer in his home town of Whitby, but there will not be a problem if he is successful in obtaining this award. He will be going to Apimondia with his Grandfather from the Sunday until the following Friday.                                                                    /Tom Robinson/

 Bo W Malmgren, chairman in Josef Starks Stipendiestiftelse.

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