Category: Synergy

Cities2030 goes to…Degrowth Conference in Zagreb, Croatia

Partners from IVM and Velika Gorica Lab will join forces and organize a panel discussion on ‘Sustainable and just transformations of city-region food systems: The case of Velika Gorica’. More specifically, the session with be joined by Violeta Crnogaj and Blanka Kovač Walaitis from the Development Agency of the City of Velika Gorica – VE-GO-RA, Mario Konić from Inventive Solutions Ltd. and Stella Archontaki from IVM, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Futuro Mediterraneo: a project from Pollica to unite youth, culture, skills, and the Mediterranean Diet

The Paideia Campus in Pollica greeted 2022 by presenting an important project that will guide this 2023: Futuro Mediterraneo.  From the heart of Cilento, 200 students from various Cilento institutions gathered in Agropoli to begin outlining a multidisciplinary strategy to support 360-degree regenerative models of production, consumption, and living, starting with the crucial role of […]

First ever Food Congress held in Iceland

On November 22, 2022, Iceland’s first-ever Food Congress (Matvælaþing in Icelandic) was held in Harpa Conference Hall in Reykjavík. It was hosted by the newly formed Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries and intended to bring together various stakeholders and professions working in food production, processing, and distribution as well as food-related innovation, entrepreneurship, research, […]

Let’s transform the food system TOGETHER – Become part of the solution – Food is not waste

There are a number of reasons to donate leftover food that is still safe to eat. One of the most important reasons is to help people who are in need, but you should definitely add economic savings and a positive ecological aspect, since large amounts of surplus food that end up as waste have a negative impact on the environment.

[Conference] Donating food – practice and obstacles – Agency VE-GO-RA

In order to increase the public’s awareness of the importance of this issue, and following the opening of the first social self-service in our city, we are organizing a conference where we gathered competent institutions and associations active in this area.

Velika Gorica LAB – Conference “I know what I eat – The perspective of domestic food production”

The start of November for Croatian partners in the CITIES2030 project was reserved for the conference “I know what I eat – The perspective of domestic food production”. The conference was organized by Croatian member of the European Parliament Ladislav Ilčić through two-panel discussions.

Scientific Synergies with the Symposium of Agricultural Economics and Rural Anthropology

Food for Iași Living Lab also has an essential research component. The results of research undertaken in Iași county and published as the first scientific paper written in the Cities2030 project by Food for Iasi Living Lab were presented within the Symposium of Agricultural Economics and Rural Anthropology.

Systems Thinking Synergies. Systemic approaches for identifying and analyzing issues of urban food systems in the Cities2030 project

Systems Thinking methodology, employed for interacting with stakeholders and developed within the Cities2030 project, was presented at the Symposium of Agricultural Economics and Rural Anthropology, organized in Iași city (Romania), on the 18th of November, 2022. 

Velika Gorica LAB at the “Gastro Turopolja” event

Velika Gorica LAB was participating in GASTRO TUROPOLJA event which is the biggest food event in the area bringing producers, consumers, institutions and schools together.

An all-female delegation for Cities2030 at TerraMadre in Turin

More than 12 cities and other supporting partner organizations across 4 #food2030familyprojects met on Turin for a productive knowledge sharing workshop in the “Feed the cities” dedicated area in TerraMadre.