urbact: sustainable food in urban communities
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FOCUS ON:
GROWING: fruits and vegetables in the city
DELIVERING: food stuff in sustainable way
ENJOYING: better food and improved diets
MISSION
Carbon intensity
Resources efficiency
“Make the urban food system more sustainable”
Benefits in terms of:
The project will focus on:Delivering
GrowingEnjoying
WHO WILL BENEFIT?
Partners and participants: new ideas of tackling sustainable food
Stakeholders: greater visibility and change of behaviour and lifestyle choices
Other cities: benefits from the shared experiences
“SHARE IDEAS AND EXPERIENCES AND FIND PARTNERS
FOR COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS”
FOOD SYSTEM STAKEHOLDERS
International and national policymakers
Farmers
Families
Citizen organizations
Industry sector
Food affects and concerns all kinds of organizations:
WHAT BUDGET IS ALLOCATED TO URBACT
PROJECTS
URBACT projects have two phases and a total budget that finances its activities: meetings, conferences, publications,
communication, etc..
TOTAL ELIGIBLE BUDGET: € 67.8 M
National contributions: paid by the Member and Partner States based on their population in proportion to the total European population (ex-ante contribution)
Local contributions: cities and regions contribute to URBACT’s projects proportionally to their involvement in the programme.
TOTAL ELIGIBLE BUDGET: € 67.8 M
Priority axe 1: cities, engines of growth and jobs
Priority axe 2: attractive and cohesive cities
Priority axe 3: technical assistance
The budget allocated to axes 1 and 2 finances URBACT projects operations, as well as the activities linked to expertise, capitalization and communication
ACTIVITIES
AT CITY LEVEL: local support group with stakeholders to draw up local action plans for sustainable food in each partner city
AT NETWORK LEVEL: exchange with network partners through workshops and conferences to produce joint outputs and feed local action plans
AT URBACT PROGRAM LEVEL: exchange and learn with partners from other URBACT networks using seminars, annual conferences, summer universities..
ACROSS EUROPE: exchange and share knowledge about urban sustainable food strategies with cities and other interested parties through a newsletter, conferences, online publications..
TRANSNATIONAL EXCHANGES
Delivering: Amersfoort, Netherlands/22-25 April 2013
Enjoying: Goteburg, Sweden/28-30 May 2013
Growing: Oslo, Norway/10-12 September 2013
1° SETS OF WORKSHOPS
In February 2014 Brussels, Belgium hosted the interim conference
addressing all 3 themes and their interim reports
Growing: Messina, Italy/25-27 March 2014
Delivering: Lyon, France/4-6 June 2014
Enjoying: Vaslui, Romania/17-19 September 2014
In March 2015 Athens, Greece will host the interim conference
addressing all 3 themes and their interim reports
2° SETS OF WORKSHOPS
OTHER ACTIVITIES RELATED:
APRIL 2014: Operational Programme for the implementation of the ERDF for 2014-2020 period (Sustainable food is one of the 5 priority sectors)
JUNE 2014: Local Action Plan for Amersfoort, Netherlands
RESULTS:
Thematic
Report
GROWING(January 2014)
Thematic
Report
DELIVERING(November 2013)
Thematic
Report
ENJOYING(January 2014)
GROWING ENJOYING DELIVERING
GOVERNANCE /SYNERGIES AND LOCAL
SYSTEM
What is the role of public administration to support sustainable
growing?
How can a city increase demand for
sustainable food?
How can we link promising food
delivering practice, make synergies and
create a vision of coherent local food
system?
SOCIAL INCLUSION/
JOBS AND ECONOMICS
FOR GROWING
How to involve various population groups in
sustainable food production and which
impact on local economy?
How can purchasing of food be made more
sustainable and affordable?
How can we transform promising food practice
into sustainable business and reach a
large share of the population?
CO2 AND RESOURCE
EFFICIENCY
What innovative techniques for growing
food in density population areas?
How to develop low-carbon and resource efficiency urban food
system?
How can we improve promising food practice to reduce emissions and
impact on resources?
WEBSITES USED
http://www.sustainable-everyday-project.net/urbact-sustainable-food/
http://urbact.eu/en/projects/low-carbon-urban-environments/sustainable-food-in-urban-communities/homepage/