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Good Food Life: Creating A Sustainable Future

Funder: European CommissionProject code: 2020-1-LI01-KA229-000189
Funded under: ERASMUS+ | Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices | School Exchange Partnerships Funder Contribution: 115,392 EUR

Good Food Life: Creating A Sustainable Future

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"""Good Food Life: Creating A Sustainable Future"" is an original and timely project in education for sustainable development, which centers on issues of food production, eating habits and green living. For a long time schools have been teaching about a healthy diet focussing on the good and bad effects of certain food ingredients on the human body. Since a few years, however, there has been a rising awareness that our food consumption is closely linked to ecological problems. The harm done is manifold: Overfishing, deforestation, soil degradation, destruction of habitats, issues of animal cruelties, controversies over food waste and plastic packaging, and - last but not least - the frightening effect of global warming. So the question for today is: Can we feed a future population of 10 billion people a healthy diet within planetary boundaries? In 2019 the EAT-Lancet Commission of Food, Planet and Health (which is made of 37 world-leading scientists from across the globe) has come up with a clear answer to this question: Yes, such a diet is possible! Followed by a caveat: But we need to change our eating habits, to re-think our food production and to avoid food waste. We think that schools are a good place to start this planetary food revolution and we are convinced that through this common project we can bring lasting change to our schools for the better.We - that is four schools: formatio Privatschule (Liechtenstein), IGS-Rockenhausen (Germany), Tundalsskolan (Sweden) and IES Poeta Julián Andúgar (Spain) - have already worked successfully together in the KA229-project ""Don't Worry? Be Happy!"" from 2018 till 2020. Since our pupils have profited a lot from this past exchange programme, we want to conduct a follow-up project which gives some of our pupils (who are 11 to 16 years old) the opportunity to visit another European country. Whereas the past project dealt with cultural variations of happiness and important life skills for a good life, the topic of our new project is different, yet similar: It is about food and how it relates to good and sustainable living.Whereas sustainable living is often associated with sacrifices and inconveniences (e.g. taking the bus instead of the car), the topic of food is especially well suited to teach the idea that a green lifestyle offers hedonic pleasures that make it very attractive as an alternative form of better living. Through our learning teaching training activities we want to create a range of such joyful experiences. We want to do hands-on projects like gardening, bee-keeping, berry picking in the woods or cooking classes. The sensory quality of this kind of work - digging the earth, harvesting your own food, preparing it yourself, etc. - will help the students to re-connect with their natural environment and to get a deeper appreciation for the products of the earth. Then, the high regard for good food finds expression in mindful eating and acts of conviviality. Unlike other pressing issues of our time (like immigration, populism, etc.) eating habits can be influenced by making the right choices on a daily basis. So by engaging with specific food issues and critically reflecting on their own consumer behaviour, young people can learn how to have a positive impact in this world - and feel good about it. The pupils can also experience their personal self-efficacy by proposing a possible improvement for a specific ecological problem at school (e.g. for replacing PET bottles in the cafeteria). So the school setting is ideal to train political empowerment with a visible and lasting impact. Finally the problem of food packaging will be tackled in up-cycling projects that turn waste into small beautiful gifts or new useful objects.It is our pedagogical aim to involve our students in diverse activities in order to educate their whole person - by engaging the mind, their heart and the hand. Some activities are very much about the mind since they foster key competences like critical thinking (e.g. analysing one's ecological footprint), good judgment (e.g. re-considering one's eating habits) or creativity (e.g. in coming up with a solution for a problem); other activities are intimately connected with the heart and train skills like kindness (e.g. for animal welfare) or social intelligence (e.g. in collaborating with students from another country); again other activities ask for concrete action (""the hand"") and demand character strengths like teamwork (e.g. in gardening) or enthusiasm (e.g. for civic engagement). In short, in this project we support and reinforce the development of a number of vital life skills, which train a round character and promote civic mindedness.To sum up, our project ""Good Food Life"" is about sustainable food production, smarter consumption and a better life. We believe that we can not only create a higher awareness in our students for these big issues but also transform our schools into more eco-friendly institutions in the mid/long term."

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