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 sustainable nutrition and to convey practical approaches to food education. The teachers decided to visit…
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 Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the World Food Programme (WFP) launched the School Meals Accelerator…
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 Handbook notes, in order for these measures to have meaningful impact, they can’t just be…
School meals have the potential to create stronger communities, improve the health of children and adults, and foster more sustainable societies. The SchoolFood4Change project sees school meals as a key lever for transformational change, understanding that such change won’t enact…
“[C]hildren’s hands are the ones that will change the world, and we must teach those hands to work towards healthy eating.” writes David, who is a teacher at the Bertomeu Llorens i Royo school (CEIP Bertomeu Llorens i Royo), in…
On 16 September, SchoolFood4Change partners Speiseraume and the City of Nuremberg had the honor of presenting at the Bonner Ernährungstage (Bonn Nutrition Days), held this year as the BZfE Forum (German Federal Center for Nutrition). The forum’s central message was…
Copenhagen’s SchoolFood4Change team, consisting of procurement lawyers and food experts, has set ambitious goals for the procurement of food for the municipality’s public institutions and the positive impact of these procurement measures! The city wants to ensure that Copenhagen’s large…
Discover how Speiseräume is transforming school meals in Germany with sustainable, healthy, and delicious options for thousands of children.
The reach and quality of school meals and structured school meal programmes can truly help protect children from low income families from food insecurity, support their development, reduce diet and weight-related health risks in later life, and foster environmentally friendly…
How Youth-led initiatives Are Transforming School Food Environments Across Europe Children and young people are not just the leaders of tomorrow—they are already changemakers today. In the SchoolFood4Change project, schools are proving that when youth are meaningfully involved in shaping…