The main goal of our project is hidden in its title: "THE EUROPEAN PATHWAYS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SLOVAK RURAL COUNTRYSIDE"This partnership involves f five partners from four countries: Slovakia, France, Czech Republic and Italy.The project will take place in the time period between June 2016 and May 2018.The main target groups are students and apprentices aged 15 to 18 years old, further vocational teachers and trainers of vocational training in beekeeping. Project participants should participate in short-term placements (for 2 weeks) and teachers should receive seven and five-days teaching stays and job shadowings.We expect that the project will improve the skills and competencies of our students, who will in future work in services in rural areas. The project focuses on the transfer of innovations and successfull solutions in the field of agrotourism and apitourism from our European partners to help rural development in Slovakia. Our school intends to set up our own student travel agency, which will benefit from the fact that we are situated in a rural country and we have at school a hundred hives and the basics of small zoo. We want to offer to our students the opportunity to gain real skills to attract tourists and provide services to the rural tourism toward the euro area countries.The project is an opportunity to develop participants knowledge in specialized subjects, social and digital capabilities. It Increases motivation to learn languages and increases communication skills in English, Czech, French and Italian languages and participants adaptation to different cultural and social environment.Certificates (Europass, Certificate of London company IES) - European tools for career development will be given to successful project participants. The results will be presented during the events organized by our school - Farmers Markets, National Beekeeping Exhibition, Open Day, the Rural Parliament session and the meeting of Executive Committee of the Slovak Beekeeping Association.Long-term benefit is to develop successful cooperation with partners, consolidate the outcomes of education and training so that education was recognized by future employers throughout the EU.