21 January 2025

New Global School Meals Accelerator Aims to Reach 100 Million Children by 2030

The School Meals Coalition launched the School Meal Accelerator to scale national school feeding programmes to reach 100 million more children by 2030.

23 December 2025

School Menu Design Handbook Series – Chapter 2: Circular Economy as a Framework for School Menu Design

Explore how a circular economy approach can transform the design of school meals.

27 November 2025

School Menu Design Handbook Series – Chapter 1: Food Acceptance in School Menus

Why food acceptance matters in school meals. Discover how taste, sensory perception and cooking methods shape healthy, sustainable school menu design.

13 November 2025

Have you ever organised a canteen day Party at your school?

Read our new guide and learn how to organise Food Focused events at your school!

23 October 2025

Feeding the Future: Cities Take the Lead and the Power of School Meals at the MUFPP Global Forum 2025

Read how the MUFPP Global Forum 2025 highlighted how cities can lead on sustainable school meals for climate and child well-being.

About The triple approach

The Triple Approach: A Recipe for Lasting Change

The SchoolFood4Change Triple Approach supports cities and schools in transforming food systems by focusing on an innovative procurement that prioritises sustainability, planetary health diets brought to life through skilled cooking, and a Whole School Food Approach that connects classrooms, kitchens and communities.

Watch the video to discover how the Triple Approach works in practice, and why scaling it up is essential for healthier children, stronger local food systems and a more sustainable future.

Support the Triple Approach. Be part of the change.

Focus 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 more than 3,000 schools
in 16 cities and regions in 12 countries. 

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Latest News

News from Germany: school staff Explores the organic gardens of Bonnekamphöhe, in essen

News from Germany: school staff Explores the organic gardens of Bonnekamphöhe, in essen

On May 2, 2025, the staff of the Heckerschule in Essen-Werden, Germany, spent a truly special team-building day. The goal was to raise awareness of…

New Global School Meals Accelerator Aims to Reach 100 Million Children by 2030

New Global School Meals Accelerator Aims to Reach 100 Million Children by 2030

On 16 January, at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture in Berlin, Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the Novo Nordisk…

School Menu Design Handbook Series – Chapter 2: Circular Economy as a Framework for School Menu Design

School Menu Design Handbook Series – Chapter 2: Circular Economy as a Framework for School Menu Design

There are many measures schools can take to provide students with healthier, tastier and more sustainable school meals. However, as the SchoolFood4Change School Menu Design…

Events

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

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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.