On May Day 2024, the new TGT creative space opened its doors from 5 – 7 p.m. Derived from the word “together”, TGT creative space invites people of Pori to fill it with short-term innovative ideas, be it exhibitions, projects, installations – anything they can...
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Exlploring the past: austerity-era potato recipes from 1940s Finland
Recipes were gathered from Finnish old cookbooks and household magazines. Recipes are compiled in a 24-page booklet, “Pelastajana pottu. Pula-ajan perunaruokaohjeita.”.Potato was an important raw material in Finland in the 1940s because of its high-yielding,...
Call for Visual Design Service proposals for the CCC Project
The "Creative Circular Cities" (CCC) project team is looking for a design service provider to develop visual elements and a graphic guidebook for the project. In this EU Interreg Baltic Sea Region (BSR) project six demo cities - Aarhus (DK), Kiel (DE), Gdynia (PL),...
FOODLOOPS BUILDS COMMON VISION OF PROJECT DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES DURING THE MEETING IN KUOPIO 12—13 JUNE 2024
FoodLoops project team in Finland, the Savonia UAS Bio and circular economy staff welcomed partners from the Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP) in Germany, Municipality of Gdansk in Poland and Lithuanian Consumer Institute to summery Kuopio on...
Heritage potato days in the Kupittaa Allotment Garden and the Kuralan Kylämäki open-air museum: a celebration of tradition and taste
On May 9th, the MainPotRe project's Finnish partners, Luonnonvarakeskus and Kupittaa Allotment Garden, hosted a heritage potato-themed afternoon in Turku. The event attracted around 280 visitors and included potato information, presentations of potato recipes from...
City of Kiel empowering children through cultural learning
The Bilder-Segelparade is a part of the Kiel’s Culture And Resilience action plan as a Cultural Pearl 2024 and aims to empower children through cultural learning. It aims to involve the children more closely in a creative project through their participation and to...
Cake for Ideas
During the semester, the staff at Aarhus University Library engaged with the students at Aarhus University in Herning by offering them a simple trade; cake for ideas. Utilizing ground plans and 3D-printed furniture models the students were encouraged to draw, build,...
Sustainable supply structures – made in Sweden
On June 18, Södertälje municipality welcomed a group of international researchers from the CO-SFSC project (Co-Creation of Sustainable Food Supply Chains) to learn about the municipality’s long history working with integrated food planning. Co-SFSC coordinates...
E-bio entrepreneur – new concept of future business
Bioeconomy is already well-known term in the context of EU policy and majority of EU countries have national strategies how to foster the bioeconomy in their countries. One important common challenge is how to merge bioeconomy development with the digital...
Preserving Heritage Potatoes: Highlights from the Virgin Potato Festival in Turku, Finland and Turun Sanomat’s Coverage of the Mainpotre Project
Veli-Matti Rokka and Maarit Heinonen from LUKE (Luonnonvarakeskus) were giving speeches about potatoes, their history, cultivation, our project, international relationships, and food security in front of the audience. There were thousands of visitors there. The story...