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 [...]
The Embassy of Italy in South Africa hosted a workshop in Cape Town on Monday, November 20, to explore the regulation and enforcement of GIs and discuss the benefits of geographical indications (GI) in South Africa and the EU. Professor Filippo Arfini from Parma University gave an overview of the Strength2Food project and the GIs [...]
In a TV Pink interview, BSN's Ratko Bojović discussed the Strength2Food Project and its aim of improving school meals in Serbia. The interview began by looking at the food poisoning outbreak in several Belgrade schools before shifting to Strength2Food and how it aims to improve meals in Serbia's primary schools. Ratko described how the teams [...]
The Public Procurement Summit “Making School Food Better” was organised by UNED and took place in Edinburgh, UK, alongside the 2nd Interim project meeting of Strength2Food, October 18-20, 2017. The summit brought together around 50 delegates from all parts of the school food system, ranging from procurement officers, catering managers, wholesalers and producers, to educators, [...]
