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…

The “Schools as Sites for Food System Transformation” Summer School (2-7 July 2023) 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 value in the heart…

While large parts of society are increasingly concerned with the way we produce and consume food, the topic of sustainable food chains and healthy diets appears to be missing in the curricula of most schools. However, dietary habits start to develop at an early age. The FoodShift Pathways project aims to provide students and their teachers with learning materials that show different pathways to innovative solutions for how the food system can become more sustainable, in order to feed a growing global population. The FoodShift Pathways kick-off meeting took place in the premises of Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, on…