20 March 2026

How Budapest’s District Is Rethinking School Food Procurement

Explore how Budapest is rethinking school food procurement with a buffet-style tender combining nutrition, social inclusion, and sustainability.

18 March 2026

RISE: A New Study looks into School Meals Across the UK

A new UK-wide study examines school meals, free provision, and children’s health across all four countries.

12 March 2026

New! From Pilots to Policy – SF4C Releases Evidence – Based Report on School Food Transformation

Explore how Europe is turning school food pilots into permanent policy, backed by evidence from 850+ schools.

12 March 2026

Green Spoon: A New European Tool to Measure the Environmental and Health Impact of School Meals

Measure the environmental and health impact of school meals with Green Spoon, the free European tool by SchoolFood4Change.

5 March 2026

SchoolFood4Change launches Practical handbook for Procurers!

How can school meals become a tool for food education? The SchoolFood4Change Handbook shows how the One Health Principle can transform what happens on and beyond the plate.

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 have reached 1,000,000 school children in more than 3,800 schools
in 22 cities and regions across the world.

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

How Budapest’s District Is Rethinking School Food Procurement

How Budapest’s District Is Rethinking School Food Procurement

Ferencváros, a district of Budapest (Hungary) is piloting a tender to implement buffet style catering in all its schools, taking into account social inclusion, food…

RISE: A New Study looks into School Meals Across the UK

RISE: A New Study looks into School Meals Across the UK

A new United Kingdom-wide study – led by the Health and Care Research Wales Faculty award holders Dr. Sara Long and Dr. Kelly Morgan –…

New! From Pilots to Policy – SF4C Releases Evidence – Based Report on School Food Transformation 

New! From Pilots to Policy – SF4C Releases Evidence – Based Report on School Food Transformation 

As Europe celebrates International School Meals Day 2026, Rikolto  – member of the SchoolFood4Change network – is proud to launch its most comprehensive report to date: “From Pilots…

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.

Project Partner
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
Project Partner
Business Economics Science Education Foundation
Project Partner
Municipality of Budapest
Project Partner
Skutočne zdravá škola
Project Partner
Ecovalia
Project Partner
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.