In the new episode of hashtag#FOODCastS, we challenge the idea that innovation is only for labs and farms. We present how schools are ground zero for food systems transformation and how to turn schools into "living labs", a model where students: 🧑‍🍳 Learn about ancient recipes using VR cooking lessons. 🌱 Run zero-emission canteens and school gardens. 📊 Become citizen scientists by tracking their own data. Tune in to FOODCastS Episode 5: 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒔𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑬𝒖𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆’𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒇𝒖𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆. https://lnkd.in/enbz5WWM Learn more on: https://lnkd.in/eRgTmGnz

On the occasion of the World Food Day (16/10/2025),

EA hosted the European Researchers' Night 2025 (26th September 2025) at its premises - with a stand on healthy and sustainable food systems. The project was presented in the respective poster and visitors could be informed of all the actions implemented in the school in the context of the project.  The website of the event https://picoproject.gr/athens-ae/  

On September 25th, Libréon organised a teacher-training day at the Newman College in Breda.  Librēon is the board of fourteen secondary schools in the Breda region. Within these schools, approximately 9,500 students are taught every day. More than 1150 employees, teachers, support staff, managers, are jointly responsible for the smooth running of this education. Our schools are not only located in Breda but also in Zundert, Baarle-Nassau and Oosterhout.After having successfully implemented a OLS-event earlier this year, SusMetro has been invited to lead two workshops on demonstrating the OLS Land Use Change in combination with the Metropolitan FoodScape Planning tool.…

EA & SusMetro participated in the FEAST Summer School in Ludwigsburg (1 - 4 September 2025). The seminar addressed students and young professionals from the whole world. ΕΑ presented FS Pathways OLS linked with the Greek video, the schools as living labs methodology and also invited participants to co-create their own scenarios. Finally, the project was represented with a poster in the dedicated poster session. A video is currently under development by the course organisers.

EA hosted the 2025 Summer School “Schools as enablers for a fair, healthy and sustainable food system” (29 June - 4 July), a five-day in-person training session for teachers and teacher trainers. EA linked the summer school to a contest focused on educational activities and scenarios on sustainable and healthy diets, following the Living Labs approach. An online newsletter was circulated to all schools in national level to encourage piloting and submission of activities on national level, and EA worked with partners to reach teachers in the consortium countries. The contest ran in collaboration with the National Network: Nutrition, Environment…

The “FutureFoodS: Schools as enablers for a fair, healthy and sustainable food system” Summer School (7-12 July 2024) aims to familiarise participants with the open schooling and living labs approach that provides a powerful framework for school heads and teachers to engage, discuss and explore: how schools can become innovation incubators and accelerators? The Summer School will present the concept of Schools as Living Labs. Living labs are user-centred, open innovation ecosystems based on a systematic user co-creation approach integrating research and innovation processes in real life communities and settings. We engage the living lab methodology as a technique of crucial…

On 27th and 30th of November 2023 a 3-hours online training session will be held by CVIVA. Our choices as consumers will have a major impact on the food systems that bring us the food we consume. How can we raise awareness in the community about the importance of sustainable food systems? And if changes must start at school, do students know the “history” of the food they consume? Based on the approach of schools open to the community (open-schooling) and the methodology of living laboratories (living-labs), promoted by the FoodSHIFT Pathways project, participants in this online training action will…

In the context of Farm to Fork: our food, our health, our future congress, that took place 16-18/11 in Castelo Branco Portugal Foodshift Pathways implemented a 1,5-hours face-to-face workshop entitled “FOODSHIFT PATHWAYS: EDUCATIONAL STRATEGIES FOR TRANSFORMING THE FOOD SYSTEM” on 16th of November 2023 hosted by Ellinogermaniki Agogi & CVIVA. In this workshop, strategies were shared that can serve as a reference for future-oriented curricula, more aligned with current environmental challenges. We presented FoodSHIFT Pathways: a set of practices enriched with digital resources that describe the current state of food systems and propose active approaches for a shift towards sustainability.…

A national & European Contest about the design of a learning scenario is organised in the context of FoooSHIFT2030 and Foodshift Pathways projects. The Greek national contest aims to inspire and encourage teachers of primary and secondary education to design and implement "Living Labs" school projects on the theme of the food system, also integrating citizen science principles. Participants need to register at the contest community platform here, make a submission of their "Project" and also communicate it via email to the address foodshift2030-contest@lists.ea.gr. The  contest will offer as prize the participation at the 2023 5-days Summer school (FOODSHIFT 2023 “Schools as Sites for Food…