At the StratKIT Final Conference on 13 October 2021, the online sustainable public meal toolkit was launched. It supports stakeholders from public procurement and catering with innovative tools to change towards sustainability. In a virtual conference with about 170 participants, experts from food and catering enterprises, the European Commission, the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture, ICLEI and science discussed necessary changes for the new Farm to Fork Strategy as well as practice examples and further results from StratKIT.

Agenda

  • Sustainable public meals in a Farm to Fork perspective – Alexandra Nikolakopoulou (Head of Farm to Fork Strategy Unit at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety; DG Sante)
  • Joint Baltic Sea Region efforts towards sustainable Public Procurement and Catering Services – StratKIT project’s wrap-up – Leena Viitaharju (University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute, Finland)
  • Piloting sustainability transformations across the BSR – Urszula Ala-Karvia (University of Helsinki Ruralia Institute)
  • Green dietary transformation in Social Welfare Home in Rybnik, Poland – Renata Kazimierczak (Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland)
  • School Green Garden as an education tool – Ekaterina Filippova (Herzen University, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
  • Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit – Why and how to use it? (Karen Thorsted Hamann (IFAU Institute for Food Studies & Agro Industrial Development, Denmark) and Regine Berges (agrathaer GmbH)
  • Sustainable School Meal Recommendations – Amalia Ochoa Vidal (ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability)
  • Panel discussion on sustainable food systems and public procurement with:
    • Alexandra Nikolopoulos (Farm to Fork Strategy Unit, DG Sante)
    • Peter Defranceschi (ICLEI, Head of Brussels Office, Global Food Program Coordinator)
    • Jaana Husu-Kallio (Permanent Secretary, Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry)
    • Rita Góralska-Walczak (Warsaw University of Life Sciences)
    • Emil Andersen (PerfectSeason, plant-based product supplier)
    • Aaro Lode (Baltic Restaurants Estonia AS)