The Serbian Ministry of Finance is currently drafting a new public-sector procurement law. Colleagues at the Centre for Procurement Management in Belgrade organised a three-day conference workshop, from the 26th to the 28th of March at the mountain resort of Zlatibor in southwest Serbia to present and discuss the latest draft of the new law [...]
Authors: H. Ferrer-Pérez and J.M. Gil
March 2018
Authors: Hartmann, M.; Yeh, C.-H.; Amilien, V.; Čeliković, Z.; Csillag, P.; Filipović, J.; Giraud, G.; Gorton, M.; Menozzi, D.; Quarrie, S.; Roos, G.; Saidi, M.; Tocco, B.; Török, Á.; Veneziani, M.
March 2018
After learning about the abundance of whiting at the North Shields Fish Quay in UK, Harissa Kitchen, a sister company to the social enterprise Food Nation, has included whiting croquettes on their menu, making use of a normally exported fish to show that locally landed seafood can make an appearance on any menu. Click here to [...]
Authors: D. Curzi, C. Falco, V. Raimondi, A. Olper
February 2018
Authors: V. Raimondi, C. Falco, D. Curzi, A. Olper
February 2018
After a series of school visits and background research, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development selected 30 Serbian primary schools for Strength2Food’s school meals pilot scheme. The schools are spread throughout Serbia, in Belgrade City, Novi Sad, Mionica, Bajina Basta, Loznica Arile and Ivanjica. Each school has been asked to provide a coordinator [...]
A word from the coordinator, Prof Matthew Gorton Welcome to the first issue of Strength2Food e-newsletter, bringing the latest updates from our project. These past 22 months have seen many exciting developments and fruitful collaborations. One of the main tangible results is the development of a methodological framework and indicators for evaluating the economic, social [...]
Strength2Food held its first hybrid forum in Serbia on Monday, November 27 to discuss how to improve the quality of children’s meals in primary schools. The event was held in Serbia's Petnica Science Centre, an independently-funded organisation providing research opportunities for primary and secondary school children from both Serbia and the rest of Europe. The [...]
Roberto Bassi and Ilaria Rossi from Academia Barilla (part of Strength2Food partner BARILLA), visited several primary schools in Serbia from November 20-22 as part of the school meals pilot scheme of WP9.1. In total, the representatives visited nine schools in Belgrade, Novi Sad and Mionica, a rural town south of Belgrade. The objectives of the [...]
