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Excitement and concentration during UrbanFarm 2021 Grand Finale
June 22, 2021How can we make our food systems more sustainable and resilient and how can we feed growing cities with fewer resources? That was the question of this year’s UrbanFarm 2021 challenge. Following the trend set by the previous editions, the...
Spring pop-up plant market in Oslo
May 11, 2021The FoodE partner organisation Nabolagshager in collaboration with Oslo Fjordhagen welcomed the arrival of the spring season by hosting a pop-up plant market in Oslo’s harbour. The pandemic has had a significant impact on local initiatives, as existing restrictions prevent...
MyLocalFoodE Conference in Romainville
April 20, 2021FoodE organises dissemination and awareness creation events across Europe under the title “MyLocalFoodE” initiatives. In the course of March-April 2021, MyLocalFoodE initiatives will take place concurrently in 3 cities: Romainville (France), Naples (Italy), Sabadell (Spain). As part of the French...
Norway’s developing urban agriculture
April 20, 2021Current trends show that the interest in urban agriculture and gardening is increasing in Norway. More and more people are discovering the joys of cultivating the land and harvesting their own food. In February 2021, the Norwegian government launched a...
Zero-waste recipes created in Svalbard
April 20, 2021FoodE partner organisation Polar Permaculture has published an eBook with healthy and zero-waste recipes, in order to make healthy food produced in sustainable systems more accessible to the wider public. The eBook is called ‘koselige kvelder’, which means ‘cozy nights’. ...
FoodE’s Inspiring Winter School
April 20, 2021On 24, 25, and 26February, FoodE held an online Winter School. The event was organised with a view to outlining and describing the main challenges that a practitioner may encounter when assessing the sustainability of city-region food systems from different...
A special guide for Ljubljana’s sustainability-aware gourmets
April 14, 2021The City of Ljubljana presents a Catalogue of locally produced food providers, short sales chains, market spaces and local events in the municipality of Ljubljana. During the COVID-19 epidemic, the importance of local self-sufficiency and the availability of quality locally...
And the winner of our FoodE mascot contest is… Terrix!
January 27, 2021In the search for a FoodE mascot, primary school pupils from all over Europe took part in a mascot drawing competition. After a careful and critical evaluation of all the designs that were received, the jury decided that Terrix will...
Participate in “Draw your FoodE superhero or superheroine” contest and your drawing can become a cartoon!
December 14, 2020FoodE opens the contest “Draw your FoodE superhero or superheroine” to children in primary schools. The climate is changing, the world population is growing more and more, cities become megalopolises, and the land to cultivate food becomes scarcer. How will...
Symposium “Productive urban landscapes – benefits, co-benefits and new modes for planning”
November 27, 2020This symposium will explore how landscape ecology can provide the knowledge needed to better address the relationship between agriculture and the urban environment. Contributions, which focus on functions and processes related to productive landscapes, as well as the role of...
Ambition ZERO – Reducing the Environmental Footprint at CUIB
November 2, 2020“Urban Centre for Good Initiatives” (CUIB) is the most sustainable bistro in Romania. It aims to mitigate the negative effects of climate change by implementing (1) Zero Food Waste, (2) Zero Waste, and (3) Zero Food Kilometres. “Ambition ZERO” describes...
FoodE at Science Week France
October 23, 2020On 7 October 2020, the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRAE) and the Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences (AgroParisTech) presented FoodE during Science Week France. The project was discussed in the context of the online event “Science en direct”...
Introducing FoodE to Slovenian public at a national event celebrating the World Food Day
October 16, 2020The conference entitled “Svetovni dan hrane, Gojimo, hranimo, ohranjajmo. Skupaj” is one of the main events celebrating the World Food Day in Slovenia. The interdisciplinary conference is at the interface of policy and practice. It is organised in a partnership...
Metabolic Institute organises FoodE’s first hackathons
October 8, 2020Within the framework of FoodE, our project partner Metabolic Institute will organise two online student hackathons to solve crucial challenges in urban farming initiatives. The hackathons invite young students, based in the Netherlands, to explore tangible solutions in urban agriculture. Local...
“FoodE challenges” to build sustainable local food systems
September 3, 2020FoodE launches participatory activities where local communities and several food chain actors (citizens, students, consumers, researchers, entrepreneurs, policy makers, representative of the civil society etc.) are asked to actively contribute to the co-design and co-creation of local food system initiatives. ...
FoodE at the SPPS PhD Student Conference 2020
August 17, 2020In the context of the SPPS PhD Student Conference which will take place in Turku, Finland as on 2-4 September 2020, FoodE will organise the workshop “How to bring innovation in City/Region Food Systems?” The workshop will allow PhD candidates...
FoodE Consortium Meets Online!
July 7, 2020Partners assessed the state of play of the activities within the project, discussed the challenges they have encountered and agreed on the best ways to move forward. They also received training on how to improve their use of 4PM –...
Sustainable Gastronomy Day and FoodE
June 18, 2020Today is the United Nations’ Sustainable Gastronomy Day. A day devoted to awareness about where our ingredients come from, how our food is grown, and how it is delivered to our (super)markets and our plates. Furthermore, this day also celebrates gastronomy...
FoodE goes online
May 28, 2020After our kick-off event in Bologna on 13-14 February, we are now officially launching FoodE’s online presence! Follow us on this website, and on our Twitter and Instagram accounts under the hashtag #ThinkGlobalEatLocal. We will regularly update you on news and events related to...
“Think Global, Eat Local”: Food Systems in European Cities kick-starts
February 17, 2020The ever-growing world population, the increased urbanisation, and the depletion of natural resources put pressure on global food security. Combined with the effect of climate change, our food supply is at risks and food chains face challenges. Consequently, local, affordable...
The future of food systems beyond Covid-19: the FoodE vision for a more resilient Europe
February 14, 2020The Horizon 2020 research project FoodE develops solutions to improve the sustainability of local food systems. The project’s activities could help equip City/Region Food Systems (CRFS) with the capacity to withstand the challenges stemming from the Covid-19 outbreak. To assess...