Circular FoodShift in the Baltic countries
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Circular FoodShift

PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
3 Climate-neutral societies
objective
3.1 Circular economy
Project type
Implementation
August 2023 - July 2025

Circular FoodShift

The project Circular FoodShift helps authorities in rural and peri-urban municipalities transform food models with less food waste at schools and gastronomy and new businesses upcycling food and food waste.
Project summary

Context
Various regional municipalities across the Baltics have put food and sustainability as a priority in their long term regional strategic plans. However, the lack of experience, competencies, resources and limited capacity at the local and regional municipality level puts barriers and impedes contextualizing food in the field of circular economy, and tackling the food waste and food loss challenges.

Municipalities need collaboration, partnerships, knowledge and understanding about "circular economy for food" program models, implementation methods, tools, evaluation, and policy development.

Solution
A defined and unifying framework to support local and regional authorities working on the circular transition of their food systems. It will highlight strategies in cross-sector collaboration and capacity building models, to significantly reduce the amount of food waste and food loss in their cities and regions.
The project will provide them with concrete instruments and tools for recognising the circular economy for food and its potential for emission reductions, and see collaborative, upstream efforts as a cost-effective solution for tackling multiple challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, employment and poverty.

Challenge
The slow pace of cross-sector collaborations for Circular Food Systems development in Tartu-, Latgale- and Vilnius regions' rural and peri-urban areas. The three regions are all geographically located in the eastern part of the Baltics and have many challenges in common.

Food is strategic and could be a perfect field for testing a new approach towards raw material and waste and for the development of a new context of inquiry, defined as “Circular Economy for Food”. The aim of the project is to build partnership and to solve the challenge of getting local and regional authorities and stakeholders from different sectors to co-develop a joint and holistic vision for the long-term regional circular food system that is both sustainable and mutually beneficial.

Project activities

  1. Methodology for defining capacity building actions and cross-sector cooperation models, and assessing its productivity impact will be developed.
  2. Development of "Setting the table for a Circular FoodShift", a defined framework for municipalities. It will offer sector-specific guidance (entry points of the project) to support the municipalities in identifying practical circular economy interventions in collaboration with stakeholders from schools, businesses, interest groups, academia, civil society, and more.
  3. Training sessions to improve the quality of school food and reduce food waste in school canteens, training and empowering school cooks and urban food enablers on sustainable cooking to put theory into practice.
  4. Introduce circular business models to support SMEs in the HoReCa sector on food waste reduction.
  5. Innovative methods and opportunities for upcycling agri-food.
  6. Dissemination of the results to/within the local municipalities in Tartu-, Latgale- and Vilnius region.
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Budgets

Circular FoodShift
in numbers.
  • 0.50
    Million
    Total
  • 0.40
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.00
    Million
    Norway

Top news

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Data collection for the framework "Setting the table for a Circular FoodShift"

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School Chefs' Masterclass: Using Root Vegetables in School Kitchens
The school kitchen must be at the heart of a school's vision on circular practises

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Up the taste, down the waste!
How food management skills can save food and lead to culinary adventures.

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A quarter of the plate in the trash - what is circular food?
A conversation about what circular food is in purely practical terms, linking it to lifestyle: ...

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Masterclass for school chefs in Latgale
Transnational cooperation with Development Centre of Võru County on food waste prevention in ...

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News from Lithuania: First Dynamic Food Procurement days in Ukmergė
A range of innovative approaches to public procurement.
36 Benefitting organisations 1 Solution(s) plannedfor use / upscale 10 Organisationsin the project

Circular FoodShift
in numbers.

  • 58.37688534999999526.716865143718564
  • 54.723355925.3380012
  • 56.690293823.7853409
  • 56.939306124.0693444
  • 62.795410422.8442015

Project partners

Lead partnerAssociation of Municipalities of Tartu County
  • Town
    Tartu
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Lõuna-Eesti
Total partner budget
139,664.00
Sustainable Gastro
  • Town
    Vilnius
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Vilniaus apskritis
Total partner budget
115,952.00
Latvian Rural Advisory and Training Centre
  • Town
    Ozolnieki
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Zemgale
Total partner budget
58,675.40
Green Liberty
  • Town
    Riga
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Rīga
Total partner budget
58,675.40
Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences
  • Town
    Seinäjoki
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Helsinki-Uusimaa
Total partner budget
116,573.84

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    27
    November
    From Linear to Circular Food: Secret ingredients of food education
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Virtual Meeting
    27. November 2024
    15:00 - 16:30 (EET)
    22
    October
    School chef Masterclass
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Physical Meeting
    22. October 2024
    12:00 - 16:00 (EEST)
    17
    October
    How to Improve School Meals?
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Physical Meeting
    17. October 2024
    10:00 - 16:00 (EEST)
    09
    October
    Digital workshop - "Dynamic Food Procurement"
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Virtual Meeting
    09. October 2024
    10:00 - 13:00 (EEST)
    01
    October
    Digital event - "Dynamic Food Procurement"
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Virtual Meeting
    01. October 2024
    10:30 - 12:30 (EEST)
    06
    July
    From a quarter to a third of the plate goes to waste
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Physical Meeting
    06. July 2024
    19:00 - 20:00 (EEST)
    04
    June
    Circular Business Models in Gastronomy session 4
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Virtual Meeting
    04. June 2024
    15:30 - 17:00 (EEST)
    14-15
    May
    Dynamic Food Procurement Days
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Physical Meeting
    14. - 15. May 2024
    09:00 - 16:30 (EEST)
    14
    May
    Sustainable Food in Kindergarten
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Physical Meeting
    14. May 2024
    16:30 - 19:30 (EEST)
    08
    May
    Circular Business Models in Gastronomy session 3
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Virtual Meeting
    08. May 2024
    15:00 - 16:30 (EEST)
    25
    April
    Circular Business Models in Gastronomy session 2
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Virtual Meeting
    25. April 2024
    15:30 - 16:30 (EEST)
    20
    March
    Circular Business Models in Gastronomy session 1
    Project: Circular FoodShift
    Virtual Meeting
    20. March 2024
    15:00 - 16:30 (EET)

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