Driving Circular Food Solutions in Schools: Learning from the FoodLoops Experience

If you are working in or connected to a municipality, the catering sector, education/training, or the farming/agriculture field, you are warmly invited to participate in this event!

📌 Please register by 18 April 2025:
Event Registration Link

🧭 Purpose of the Workshop

Join us to:

• Gain valuable insights from real success stories
• Discover how circular food initiatives are being implemented in schools, based on the hands-on experiences of the FoodLoops project
• Learn from other initiatives working to reduce food waste, such as Making the School Community Food-Wise
• Engage in dynamic discussions on how to co-create local cooperation models for circular #biowastemanagement in schools across the BSR region
• Connect with like-minded stakeholders to reduce food waste and enhance resource efficiency

📚 Workshop Structure

🔹 Opening Presentations:

• Manual on Local Cooperation for Circular Bio-Waste
  Ahmad Hafiz (Project Manager, CSCP)
• Circular Bio-Waste in Schools – The FoodLoops Experience in Finland
  Ulla Santi & Anne Holopainen (Savonia University of Applied Sciences)
• The FoodLoops Experience in Poland
  Aleksandra Kulik (Municipality of Gdańsk)
• The FoodLoops Experience in Lithuania
  Zita Ceponyte (Lithuanian Consumer Institute)
• Making the School Community Food-Wise
  Kaidi Randpold (Project Manager)
• Gut Einern – Educating Schools in the Circular Food System
  Dominik Stingl (Gut Einern e.V)

🔹 Interactive Session:

• Group Discussion – Building and continuing cooperation on circular bio-waste in the BSR and beyond (moderated)

🔹 Closing:

• Wrap-Up & Closing Remarks
  Harri Auvinen (R&D Manager, Bio and Circular Economy Research Unit – Savonia University of Applied Sciences)

🌍 Why Attend?

This workshop builds on the success of our Replication Workshop on 21 March 2025, where over 30 participants from across Europe—including Finland, Lithuania, Germany, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Spain, and the UK—came together to exchange knowledge and begin planning local action.

You will:

• Learn a step-by-step approach to initiating cooperation on circular bio-waste based on the FoodLoops project
• Participate in interactive sessions to tackle challenges and co-design circular food system solutions
• Develop small-scale collaborative project ideas and outline action plans for implementation

The FoodLoops project supports this mission through:

• Pilot actions
• A manual for local cooperation
• Replication of approaches across countries
• Cross-border networking and knowledge exchange

🔗 Join us and be part of the movement for circular food systems in the Baltic Sea Region – and beyond!