FESD – Food Education for Sustainable Development

Environment and fight against climate change ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. A central role plays FOOD AND NUTRITION EDUCATION, considered as a variety of educational strategies that can be implemented at different levels, aimed at helping people to achieve long-lasting improvements in their diets and eating behaviours. With this project, we aimed to support the capacity building of students, stimulated by effective methods to work on sense of initiative in order to increase the activation and participation of young students in the local communities, to act locally and think globally as active agents of sustainable development, starting from their food habits. The main need was to transform the student’s worldviews. We wanted to enable them to understand their responsibilities towards the planet and to develop a consciousness about global problems. Education for sustainable development also deals with the topic of sustainable food and nutrition. Students needed to develop the ability to collaborate, speak up, and act towards positive change.

Objectives of the proposal were: 1) Enhancing the knowledge and skills of students on food and nutrition, and on food related environment issues, not only in terms of technical competence, but for the added value of changing behaviors and contributing to the international goals; 2) Ensuring that young people can use the new competences effectively in the local communities; 3) Exchanging adapting and transferring knowledge, methods and tools to work on food education, 4) Promoting the exchange of good practices among public/private partners, strengthening cross-cooperation; 5) Broadening the students’ engagement and activation, addressing sustainable development issues; 6) Contributing to the sense of belonging, as European Citizens and motivating participants to learn more about EU and to contribute to EU community goals.

1) Development the methodologies for food education at school 2) Preparatory transnational training for staff 3) Piloting of food education programme at local and transnational level, with the involvement of at least 30 students in each country 4) Design incubation programme for entrepreneurial initiatives for food education and in the community 5) Piloting of incubation programme with a group of at least 20 students in each country launching at least 5 local initiatives 6) Creation of a booklet to inspire the active involvement of students in local food education initiative, for the transferability and sustainability of the project 7) transnational mobility of students as opportunity to be part of an European community of active students that will stay active after the project end, with new projects and ideas (at local and transnational level).

- Methods and practices at European level Identified and compared to support students in the acquisition and development of food, nutrition and sustainable development knowledge and skills. - empowered partner organizations to be able to stimulate students in acquiring new skills related to civic skills, sense of initiative and changing behaviors. - Collaboration of the partners in the implementation of activities with teachers, educators, and students useful for enhancing the innovation of nutrition education for sustainable development and healthy lifestyle - Enhancement of students’ soft skills (communication and collaboration, content creation, safety and environment protection, and problem solving, sense of initiative and entrepreneurial skills) - Increased sense of belonging to the EU community and identification with its values and goals 1 methodology for food education at school piloted at local and transnational level, with the involvement of at least 30 students in each country. 1 incubation programme for entrepreneurial initiatives for food education and in the community tested with a group of at least 20 students in each country. At least 5 local initiatives will be launched during the project as result of the incubation programme 1 booklet prepared for the active involvement of students in local food education initiative.