28 February 2024

policy brief #1

Tackling inequality through healthy and sustainable school food

Currently, several EU policies concerning the school food system from a social justice, health, education and agricultural perspective are not well integrated. Therefore, stronger and well-integrated policies are needed to unleash the true potential of healthy, sustainable school food. Find here our policy recommendations in our first SF4C policy brief.

28 February 2024

SF4C Replication cities: one year in!

TRANFORMING SCHOOL MEALS ACROSS THE WORLD

Find out more about our work with the SF4C Repolication Cities. Exactly a year ago, a new group of 20 cities joined the project – from Europe but also Africa, South America and Oceania – to exchange with partner cities on challenges and best practices related to school meals.  

01 February 2024

TURNING DISADVANTAGE INTO ADVANTAGE

A SLOVAKIAN SCHOOL’S INSPIRING JOURNEY TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE FOOD HABITS

Learn more about the elementary school Kukučínová from Slovakia. The school faced their challenges head on and turned them into an opportunity by leveraging the influence of children on their families.   

15 November 2023

INSIGHTS FROM THE REPLICATION CITY MADRID

Have a look a the case study which was conducted about the Madrid Nursery School Food System. The case study article is the result of a collaboration between civil society organizations (Mensa Cívica), Madrid’s Department of Childhood Education and the academy. Developing city-based initiatives has great potential to improve eating habits and is of great importance in the SF4C project.  

08 November 2023

GET TO KNOW 2 PROJECT SCHOOLS FROM GHENT

The secondary school “Don Bosco Zwijnaarde” and the primary school “De Mozaïek” introduce themselves and present activities which they have implemented since joining the SF4C project. Learn more about their school garden, vegetable shop or how to pimp your soup.

12 October 2023

SF4C YOUTH DELEGATION AT THE WORLD FOOD FORUM

This year’s World Food Forum aims to showcase innovative and inclusive local action for agri-food systems transformation and accelerated climate action. The official SF4C youth delegation seized the opportunity to highlight their message:  School meals – when aligned with food education and innovative sustainable food procurement practices – can be a powerful a tool for change.  

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
in 16 cities and regions in 12 countries. 

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

SchoolFood4Change replication cities: one year in!

SchoolFood4Change replication cities: one year in!

After the project start in January 2022 SF4C is now in full swing and has big ambitions, going beyond the partner cities. Exactly a year…

Turning Disadvantage into Advantage: A Slovakian School’s Inspiring Journey Towards Sustainable Food Habits

Turning Disadvantage into Advantage: A Slovakian School’s Inspiring Journey Towards Sustainable Food Habits

At the annual SchoolFodo4Change (SF4C) consortium meeting held in Vienna in October 2023, a poster exhibition showcased good practices from SF4C participating schools all over…

#meettheteam – series, part 3

#meettheteam – series, part 3

In our #MeetTheTeam -Series, we introduce members of SchoolFood4Change and participants! In this part #3, we interviewed Tom, Ludmilla and Hana who are implementing the…

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
Project Partner
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
Project Partner
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.