FoodTalks – Shifting eating patterns through education and training Erasmus Project

Project Title

FoodTalks – Shifting eating patterns through education and training

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for adult education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2019

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Environment and climate change; Civic engagement / responsible citizenship; Health and wellbeing

Project Summary

Our food system is closely linked to urgent global challenges. Food production is a major contributor to climate change, a dominant driver of deforestation and biodiversity loss, and an important user and causer of our increasingly scarce water resources. Furthermore, food is the biggest single influence in our health.
A third of the food produced for human consumption is not consumed, but thrown away. At the same time, there are millions of people in the world who do not have enough food to lead a healthy, active life.

The food system is driven by many economic, cultural and environmental factors. These include demographic trends, changes in eating habits and food waste. In the EU food waste and unsustainable food habits have been identified by all government as challenges that need to be urgently tackled. This also includes the growing out-of-home sector, where a significant part of food waste occurs. Respective policies were set up in most European countries, but these need to be backed up by direct interventions with consumers.

Sustainable out-of-home nutrition can contribute to achieve sustainability objectives by transforming the demands of consumers. Studies indicate that individual food choice behaviours in out-of-home
facilities are connected to a range of personal, social and situational factors. The majority of the European population is willing to act against food waste and adopt a more sustainable and healthy diet. However, they often lack the necessary knowledge.

FoodTalks would like to address this issue and develop an action package to enable hosts, providers and guests of out-of-home catering to respond to the above challenges, contribute to a more sustainable food system and make informed consumption choices. The project addresses host organisations of out-of-home caterers (local authorities, private business, elderly homes, universities) and proposes solutions for more sustainable catering services involving the catering providers and their guests. Campaign material will be developed and tested in selected canteens in different sectors to run food wise campaigns in canteens and contribute to a more sustainable out-of-home catering sector.

Project Website

http://foodtalks.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 294019,54 Eur

Project Coordinator

agado Gesellschaft für nachhaltige Entwicklung UG & Country: DE

Project Partners

• Stichting Global Action Plan Nederland
• INEUROPA SRL
• Global Action Plan Ltd.
• Legacy17
• ASOCIACION PLAN DE ACCION GLOBAL PARA LA TIERRA GAP ESPANA
• Framtiden i våre hender