Transforming Food Systems: Cleverfood Initiative & Education Strategies
Discover the Cleverfood initiative driving a sustainable, plant-based food system transformation. Explore themes like policy governance, innovation, citizen science, and more. Engage in educating children and youth in food science through interactive toolkits and collaborative networks.
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Cleverfood Towards a fair, healthy, sustainable, circular and more plant-based food system Supporting HEIs in/for food system transformation Eduardo Urias, VU Amsterdam Funded by The European Union Webinar XXXX
CLEVERFOOD: the challenge Lots of projects and initiatives are working on developing innovative solutions for a more sustainable food system, but projects often operate in silos and initiatives are not connected Photo by Miguel Bernardo on Unsplash Photo by Mel Poole on Unsplash
Status for the FOOD 2030 Project Collaboration Network by 30 June 2014 111 EU Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe, and LIFE projects have been mapped, and 86 of these projects have joined More than 40 projects joined the FOOD 2030 Networks Conference on Transformative Food System Innovation in Brussels from 5thto 7thof March 2024!
Vertical themes established Policy and governance for food system transformation Innovation, data, digital tools, and sustainability assessment Business development, investment and financing Education and citizen science Public engagement, multi-stakeholder collaboration and empowerment Communication, dissemination and mass mobilization
Education and citizen science Motivate and engage children and youth to take part in FS education activities by developing Testing and deploying an interactive FOOD 2030 Science Education Toolkit Supporting food science education activities in Policy & Living Labs Establishing a network to collaborate on transforming higher education teaching Providing support for developing competences and policies for food science education
Analysis of existing curricula vis--vis existing competence frameworks We identified programmes in HEIs 17 programmes (2 BSc and 15 MSc) 11 modules (e.g., extra-curricular, summer schools, professional education) Thematic analysis of learning objectives (n = 325) vis- -vis existing competences and competency frameworks for system transformation Notably Redman & Wiek (2021) s core competences and complementary skills Systems-thinking, Futures-thinking, Values thinking, Strategies-thinking, Inter-personal competence, Implementation competence, integration competence, and intra-personal competence Disciplinary Expertise, and General and Professional Abilities 6
Main findings Core competences Systems thinking and strategic thinking are widely covered Integration competences; stakeholder engagement; future thinking competencies; intrapersonal skills often absent or implicit outcomes widely covered absent or implicit in learning 7
Main findings Complementary skills Disciplinary expertise: overrepresentation overrepresentation of food technology and business, management and innovation underrepresentation underrepresentation of social sciences and humanities General and Professional Abilities critical thinking, creativity, lifelong learning, interpersonal and self-awareness skills , advanced communication that fosters empathy and responsive project management often are not addressed or implicit not addressed or implicit in learning outcomes 8
How can we contribute to addressing those gaps? Cross-project collaboration (FOSSNET, FOODCLIC, FOODPaths Establishing a network to collaborate on transforming higher education teaching Providing support for developing competences and policies for food science education 9
Want to be involved? Join the vertical theme on Education & Citizen Science on the SustainableFood System Network (SFSN) platform! Link to the registration form Link directly to the subgroup. Or drop me an email: eduardo.munizpereiraurias@vu.nl 10
Cleverfood Towards a fair, healthy, sustainable, circular and more plant-based food system Thank you for the attention! Eduardo Urias Athena Institute VU Amsterdam eduardo.munizpereiraurias@vu.nl Funded by The European Union
