17 March 2025

Advocating for Change: European Students call for Healthy School Meals and Food Education at the European Parliament

European students call for healthy school meals and better food education at the European Parliament on the International School Meals Day.

12 February 2025

Inspiring SF4C Action from Vindeln Municipality (Sweden)

Discover how Grönsaksbonden Strycksele, a small family-run farm in Vindeln, Sweden, is transforming school food procurement by supplying fresh, chemical-free vegetables to local schools. A model for sustainable, locally sourced food systems!

06 February 2025

Innovative experiences and best practices explored: SF4C EU AWARDS

The journey towards a sustainable food system is a collective one. Celebrate with us the countries and schools hat have been nominated for the SchoolFood4Change EU Award!

20 December 2024

A fieldtrip to dordogne, where change is 100% organic

Discover how the Dordogne region in France is leading the way in sustainable school meals with 100% organic, local, and home-made food. Learn about the inspiring practices shared during the SchoolFood4Change study visit, promoting healthier, eco-friendly canteens across Europe

06 December 2024

A Taste of Change: Highlights from the General Assembly in Prague

Read how the SchoolFood4Change General Assembly in Prague united experts from across Europe to reform school meals. Learn about sustainable practices, food literacy, and innovative approaches shaping the future of school food systems.

02 December 2024

Planetary Health Diet & Cooking Training at the University of Gastronomic Sciences – round 2

Explore how chefs are transforming school canteen meals with healthier, tastier, and more sustainable recipes through training, sensory tests, and collaborative initiatives at the SchoolFood4Change event.

About SchoolFood4Change

We aim at making school meals enjoyable and healthy for both our children and our planet. 

SchoolFood4Change is an EU-funded project, headed by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and co-created by a consortium of 43 European partners, including environmental and non-governmental organisations, local governments, scientists and research institutes, schools, chefs,  meal professionals and health experts. The well-being of both our young people and our planet is a responsibility we all share. Looking back, we are thankful for what has been done and achieved. Food, and school food in particular, is essential to grow, learn and thrive. School meals have always constituted a very welcome daily break for many pupils. That’s why we say: Thanks for the food! 

Nevertheless, food always evolves over time and school food is no different. SchoolFood4Change builds on what has been achieved, asking for more vegetables, lentils, nuts, diversity on our plates and more democracy, education and inclusion in our societies. SchoolFood4Change therefore supports change agents who are spreading a new food culture from the plates in school canteens to the plates in families, workplaces and all of society. It’s time for a new menu! 

Project Areas

Planetary Health Diets & Cooking

Planetary Health Diets & Cooking

SchoolFood4Change aims to motivate, support and enable schools to provide meals that are innovative, climate-friendly, healthy, delicious, zero-waste and reflect local identity – a long…

Whole school food approach

Whole school food approach

The Whole School Food Approach is a holistic concept that offers pupils healthier and sustainable food  choices in the long term. It’s not just about…

Sustainable public food procurement

Sustainable public food procurement

Innovative approaches to the procurement of healthy and sustainable food for school meals are the focus of SchoolFood4Change (SF4C). SF4C follows a holistic approach with the…

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43 project partners reach 600,000 pupils in 3,000 schools
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43 project partners reach 600,000 pupils in 3,000 schools
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Latest News

Advocating for Change: European Students call for Healthy School Meals and Food Education at the European Parliament

Advocating for Change: European Students call for Healthy School Meals and Food Education at the European Parliament

On this year’s International School Meals Day, the SchoolFood4Change partners ICLEI Europe and IFOAM Organics Europe facilitated an intergenerational dialogue at the European Parliament in…

Celebrating the transformative power of tasty food

Celebrating the transformative power of tasty food

SchoolFood4Change EU Award at BIOFACH Forum, Nuremberg, Germany.  SchoolFood4Change was thrilled to participate in the BIOFACH forum from February 11-14, 2025. This event, known as…

Mom, can we have Philipps and Julia´s veggies for dinner? – Vindeln Municipality (SE) inspires the SF4C Consortium

Mom, can we have Philipps and Julia´s veggies for dinner? – Vindeln Municipality (SE) inspires the SF4C Consortium

In the serene countryside of Strycksele, Vindeln municipality, Philipp Stawarz and Julia Dahrendorf have brought their dream of subsistence farming to life. Originally from Germany,…

Events

In additon to our own SchoolFood4Change project events we collect interesting events in the school food sector for you. 

Thanks for
the food!

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a new menu

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Project Consortium

43 organisations in 12 countries join forces in SchoolFood4Change to make school meals
enjoyable for our children and our planet.

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Bioforum
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Municipality of Ghent
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Municipality of Leuven
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Rikolto
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Skutečně zdravá škola
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Municipality of Copenhagen
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City of Tallinn
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Municipality of Viimsi
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City of Nuremberg
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Municipality of Essen
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Speiseräume f+b
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WWF Germany
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Business Economics Science Education Foundation
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Municipality of Budapest
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Skutočne zdravá škola
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Ecovalia
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Mensa Cívica
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University of Alcalá
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Municipality of Malmö
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Municipality of Umeå

Resources

You can find and download our project results, publications and other useful materials here. We invite you to use them – bon appétit! 

Contact

We want to hear from you! Please keep in touch. If you have any questions concerning SchoolFood4Change, please send us an email and we will be delighted to help you.