Food for Future - Sustainable Nutrition in School Canteens

Our diet contributes to 30% of global greenhouse emissions and thus to anthropogenic climate change. For transformations towards sustainable development in the sense of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the local level of action and the food system are therefore a key starting point. Out-of-home catering, i.e. food in public institutions such as universities, schools, kindergartens and hospitals, is a central factor in contributing to a nutritional transition, i.e. the establishment of sustainable food systems.

In the "Food for Future" project, students go to school in teams in Baden-Württemberg to learn more about sustainability in school canteens. They visit school kitchens and learn about the everyday challenges of managing a canteen. In short interviews, they ask pupils, teachers, kitchen staff and parents involved about their views and wishes with regard to school meals: What is important to them when it comes to school meals? What role do sustainability aspects play in school meals? Which forms of pupil participation make sense? At the end, the students develop recommendations for action for the sustainable design of school lunches.

The inter- and transdisciplinary project will take place from winter semester 2023 to summer semester 2024.

Five students from different degree programmes and nine schools in Baden-Württemberg are participating.

Final Report

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