The INSALDS project achieved the following specific objectives: - To train adult educators on facilitating intercultural exchange through food and digital story telling; - To train students/learners on video production and digital storytelling techniques; - To train students/learmers on food stainability; - To develop recipes for cross-cultural salads - To create videos introducing cross-cultural recipes. The project achieved the planned objectives and also contributed to developing a higher intercultural sensitivity and awarness of environmental sustainability of food consumption in local communities. The local communities also improved the inclusion process by developing attention and a sense of welcome towards the intercultural recipes tested within the project workshops. Participation of migrant people in the context of public space was enhanced. In particular, participation in urban gardens activities and presentations of the project results were opportunities to improve intercultural interaction and to offer migrant people opportunities to value their cultural background .
The reasons encouraging partners to realize the project were related to three areas: the need to promote sustainable education; the need to promote social inclusion and the need to improve digital citizenship skills. The needs were identified in groups of fragile students/learners with a migration background. Concerning sustainability, the need was identified to: - promote healthy nutrition and sustainable for environment; - promote the choice of healthy and sustainable diets to reduce the risk of chronic diseases and reduce the environmental impact related to food consumption; - train people to make informed decisions about their diet and to reduce the impact of food consumption on health and the environment. Concerning inclusion, the need was identified to: - share different cultural traditions on cooking and eating; - involve migrant people to create an inclusive environment and enhance different cultures. Concerning digital citizenship, the need was identified to: - promote experiential and collaborative learning by using digital storytelling - encourage participation with innovative tools like the social hackathon approach.