Barcelona + Sostenible

• To raise awareness of food waste in school dinners. 
• To find out the ecological footprint of certain foods used in school meals on a daily basis.
• To provide a contextual framework for learning about student participation, responsibility, critical thinking and empowerment.
• To encourage non-teaching staff to get involved in schools’ sustainability projects.
   

Schools that provide school dinners and support staff.

For a few weeks from a certain point during the school year, all participating schools’ canteens will simultaneously carry out a series of actions to find out where the food eaten at these canteens comes from, quantify each week’s food waste (if any), analyse its ecological footprint and carry out a waste prevention campaign in response to the findings. Finally, a general assessment will be carried out towards the end of the school year using all the data collected and compared and the steps taken. Taking part in this micro-network involves a series of stages that start with a question for each day of the week and a fun activity to do over lunch in the canteen to answer it.

• Training for school canteen educators
• An educational guide with suggested activities, strategies and resources for the project
• A conceptual framework of food waste in Barcelona and Catalonia
• Processing of the data compared to determine the school’s food waste-related ecological footprint
• Additional teaching resources on food waste
• Supporting communication materials (a canvas for writing down the answers to the daily questions on the focus foods).

• Participating teachers must attend training sessions.
• Participating schools must have a representative who can be contacted during the project.

You can register for the 2024-2025 training through this form. 

Registrations will remain open until the day before the first training session.