Innovation in procurement is key to making school meals healthier and more sustainable. But how can sustainability and health ambitions be translated into concrete tender requirements? The newly relaunched SchoolFood4Change Handbook for Public Procurement of School Meals offers practical guidance for procurers looking to drive change through public food contracts…
(Read this article in Estonian here.) While Estonia’s school food system faces many challenges, a number of the country’s schools have implemented practical solutions and exciting innovations in recent years that have made eating and learning about nutrition at school more exciting, healthier and more sustainable. In October 2025,…
Beyond the food Pyramid Who doesn’t remember the food pyramid from their biology classes? It represented the optimal combination of foods one should eat during the week to maintain a healthy diet: a useful model that has helped many people…
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…
Canteen Day Parties are theme days at schools that revolve around food. The aim is to involve parents and caregivers, teachers, canteen staff, the neighbourhood and the wider community in children's food education. The SchoolFood4Change Canteen Day Guide explains how such a theme day can be organised.
In a world grappling with climate disruption, food insecurity, and rising inequality, the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP) Global Forum 2025 offered a rare dose of optimism – and a blueprint for action. Since its inception at Expo 2015,…
“[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…