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School as a change maker towards healthy and sustainable diet

The problem
Lack of cooperation between social actors enabling food system transformation
The solution
Engaging school, community and city to address challenges identified by children
The prototype
Researchers and students of universities as facilitators of the change process
The societal actors
universities, teachers, cooking staff, local businesses, producers, neighborhood

Hosted by SALL , contributed by Eugenia Harms on 6 July 2023

How to transform current food behavior towards more healthy and sustainable diet

Food education education is not part of the school curriculum. However to reach the SDGs goals 

Today's children are not involved to define problems related to the food system nor to find solution even though they will be strongly impacted by the climate change consequences. For them to questions their food habits and become activ change makers of the current food system it's necessary to have them at the center of the proposed living lab. 

The aim of this living lab is to develop a prototype to transform community food behavior by making them co-create together based on proposed solutions by children. 

universities, teachers, cooking staff, local businesses, producers, neighborhood

1. Find a school 

2..Find a pilot class 

3. Kids exploring their school "food environment" to size the problem (e.g. kitchen canteen, supermarket, garden, restaurant, farms..)

3. workshop with kids to define the problem they want to solve

4. Organize an Event to engage all actors to co-create solutions 

5. Build a community to engage people (communication, flyer...) 

6. Find resources (time), sponsors, partners (eg. students), money (crowdfunding)