Objectives of the proposal were: 1) Enhancing the knowledge and skills of students on food and nutrition, and on food related environment issues, not only in terms of technical competence, but for the added value of changing behaviors and contributing to the international goals; 2) Ensuring that young people can use the new competences effectively in the local communities; 3) Exchanging adapting and transferring knowledge, methods and tools to work on food education, 4) Promoting the exchange of good practices among public/private partners, strengthening cross-cooperation; 5) Broadening the students’ engagement and activation, addressing sustainable development issues; 6) Contributing to the sense of belonging, as European Citizens and motivating participants to learn more about EU and to contribute to EU community goals.
Environment and fight against climate change ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being at all ages is essential to sustainable development. A central role plays FOOD AND NUTRITION EDUCATION, considered as a variety of educational strategies that can be implemented at different levels, aimed at helping people to achieve long-lasting improvements in their diets and eating behaviours. With this project, we aimed to support the capacity building of students, stimulated by effective methods to work on sense of initiative in order to increase the activation and participation of young students in the local communities, to act locally and think globally as active agents of sustainable development, starting from their food habits. The main need was to transform the student’s worldviews. We wanted to enable them to understand their responsibilities towards the planet and to develop a consciousness about global problems. Education for sustainable development also deals with the topic of sustainable food and nutrition. Students needed to develop the ability to collaborate, speak up, and act towards positive change.