Innovative Strategies for Public Catering: the Expansion of the Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit
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PROGRAMME 2021-2027
priority
1 Innovative societies
objective
1.2 Responsive public services
Project type
Small Project
Implementation
October 2022 - March 2024

StratKIT+

The project StratKIT+ guides public authorities, catering providers and others on sustainable procurement for schools, daycare, hospitals and other public institutions.
Project summary

There are many institutional, economic, social, and psychological barriers when it comes to implementing high-quality criteria into the public procurement and catering services. StratKIT+ project addresses these challenges by providing new additions to the previously developed Public Meal Toolkit, which helps implementing healthy and sustainable food into the public sector within the Baltic Sea Region while providing a community platform for the stakeholders.

Public meal organisations need support, guidance, and networks in incorporating environmental targets and strategies to their main task of serving nutritionally adequate meals. Addition to this, stakeholders need more support and tools to tackle different crisis situations that affect the public kitchens. The new Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit+ will provide even more practical examples and support for sustainable public meals with good accessibility for everyone in Baltic Sea Region and beyond.

Public meal stakeholders lack multiple resources (e.g. time, knowledge, funding, support) in the sustainable development of public meals. With the toolkit BSR public meal actors can cooperate by sharing knowledge and ideas related to different public meal solutions through practical pilot testing organised by the StratKIT+ project partners. These pilots have been successful way to share knowledge with stakeholders for example through organic farm visits, cooking trainings and workshops.

Practical testing and implementation of the toolkit helps the BSR public meal actors to commit to the sustainability goals that are challenging to reach with the limited resources. Through the StratKIT+ project public meal stakeholders can tackle challenges related to legal regulations, social challenges and crisis situations and become local pioneers in providing sustainable public meals. Addressing it all, StratKIT+ will contribute with a variety of ways to increased sustainability of public meals in BSR and beyond.

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Budgets

StratKIT+
in numbers.
  • 0.50
    Million
    Total
  • 0.40
    Million
    Erdf
  • 0.00
    Million
    Norway

Top news

News

Insights from the StratKIT+ Final Conference on 7.2.2024
Nearly 90 participants joined the StratKIT+ Final Conference to hear about the Expanded Sustainable ...

Pilot

Practical testing of the tool “Lectures on benefits of organic food” by Södertälje Municipality, Sweden
The tool “Lectures on benefits of organic food” aims to promote the benefits and improve the ...

Overview

What we've achieved so far
Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit now available in 10 languages!

The Toolkit (www.sustainable-public-meal.eu) was translated into three new languages and is now available in all official languages spoken in the countries surrounding the Baltic Sea: Swedish, Finnish, Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Russian, Polish, German, Danish and in English. The Toolkit was created during InterregBSR project StratKIT (2019 – 2021, #088) and is being now further developed under StratKIT+ project of the same programme. Having new partners from Latvia, Lithuania and Sweden allowed the geographical expansion of the Toolkit. Hence, the public procurers, catering professionals and citizens of these countries now have an easy access to all the tools, and they can start transforming their public procurement and catering services towards sustainability. Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit
80 Benefitting organisations 2 Solution(s) plannedfor use / upscale 25 Organisationsin the project

StratKIT+
in numbers.

  • 62.789373922.8206754
  • 59.451931924.7176649
  • 57.707232611.9670171
  • 52.5158828514.112973822994086
  • 55.88404212.469355
  • 50.259898719.0215852
  • 50.095579318.5419933
  • 59.08386115000000417.49085301467332
  • 56.947784924.1064512
  • 52.233717221.071432235636493
  • 54.232911823.520564
  • 57.8479954526.994490282308846
  • 50.84655734.351697
  • 59.435147824.77303058847621
Lead partnerUniversity of Helsinki
  • Town
    Seinäjoki
  • Region
  • Country
    Finland
  • Region
    Etelä-Pohjanmaa
Total partner budget
90,720.00
Stockholm Environment Institute Tallinn Centre
  • Town
    Tallinn
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
34,916.00
University of Gothenburg
  • Town
    Gothenburg
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Västra Götalands län
Total partner budget
36,096.14
agrathaer
  • Town
    Müncheberg
  • Region
  • Country
    Germany
  • Region
    Märkisch-Oderland
Total partner budget
43,680.00
IFAU Institute for Food Studies and Agroindustrial Development
  • Town
    Horsholm
  • Region
  • Country
    Denmark
  • Region
    Nordsjælland
Total partner budget
28,044.02
Medical University of Silesia
  • Town
    Katowice
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Katowicki
Total partner budget
21,521.19
Municipality of Rybnik
  • Town
    Rybnik
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Rybnicki
Total partner budget
28,794.53
Municipality of Södertälje
  • Town
    Södertälje
  • Region
  • Country
    Sweden
  • Region
    Stockholms län
Total partner budget
43,883.10
Riga City Council
  • Town
    Riga
  • Region
  • Country
    Latvia
  • Region
    Rīga
Total partner budget
43,680.00
Warsaw Municipality
  • Town
    Warszawa
  • Region
  • Country
    Poland
  • Region
    Miasto Warszawa
Total partner budget
21,521.19
Lazdijai district municipality administration
  • Town
    Lazdijai
  • Region
  • Country
    Lithuania
  • Region
    Alytaus apskritis
Total partner budget
40,040.00
Development Centre of Võru County
  • Town
    Võru
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Lõuna-Eesti
Total partner budget
26,390.00
Central Denmark EU-Office
  • Town
    Brussels
  • Region
  • Country
    Denmark
  • Region
    Østjylland
Total partner budget
18,378.36
Baltic restaurants Estonia
  • Town
    Tallinn
  • Region
  • Country
    Estonia
  • Region
    Põhja-Eesti
Total partner budget
22,330.00

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News

Events

19
March
National Training session in Denmark
Project: StratKIT+
Virtual Meeting
19. March 2024
10:00 - 11:30 (CET)
20
March
National Training session in Estonia
Project: StratKIT+
Physical Meeting
20. March 2024
00:00 - 23:59 (EEST)
25
March
National Training session in Finland
Project: StratKIT+
Virtual Meeting
25. March 2024
13:00 - 14:30 (EET)
    15
    March
    National Training session in Lithuania
    Project: StratKIT+
    Physical Meeting
    15. March 2024
    00:00 - 23:59 (BST)
    14
    March
    National Training session in Germany
    Project: StratKIT+
    Physical Meeting
    14. March 2024
    10:30 - 15:30 (CET)
    13
    March
    National Training session in Poland
    Project: StratKIT+
    Physical Meeting
    13. March 2024
    10:00 - 12:30 (BST)
    06
    March
    National Training session in Latvia
    Project: StratKIT+
    Physical Meeting
    06. March 2024
    00:00 - 23:59 (BST)
    05
    March
    National Training session in Sweden
    Project: StratKIT+
    Virtual Meeting
    05. March 2024
    14:00 - 15:30 (CET)
    07
    February
    StratKIT+ Final Conference
    Project: StratKIT+
    Virtual Meeting
    07. February 2024
    09:30 - 12:00 (CET)
    12
    October
    National Stakeholder Workshop in Latvia
    Project: StratKIT+
    Virtual Meeting
    12. October 2023
    (BST)
    19
    September
    National Stakeholder Workshop in Denmark
    Project: StratKIT+
    Virtual Meeting
    19. September 2023
    (BST)
    15
    September
    National Stakeholder Workshop in Poland
    Project: StratKIT+
    Virtual Meeting
    15. September 2023
    (BST)
    15
    September
    National Stakeholder Workshop in Lithuania
    Project: StratKIT+
    Virtual Meeting
    15. September 2023
    (BST)
    08
    September
    National Stakeholder Workshop in Sweden
    Project: StratKIT+
    Virtual Meeting
    08. September 2023
    (BST)
    07
    September
    National Stakeholder Workshop in Estonia
    Project: StratKIT+
    Virtual Meeting
    07. September 2023
    (BST)
    31
    August
    National Stakeholder Workshop in Germany
    Project: StratKIT+
    Virtual Meeting
    31. August 2023
    (BST)
    29
    August
    National Stakeholder Workshop in Finland
    Project: StratKIT+
    Virtual Meeting
    29. August 2023
    09:30 - 11:00 (EEST)
    19-28
    June
    Training for cooks in Latvia
    Project: StratKIT+
    Physical Meeting
    19. - 28. June 2023
    - (CET)
    01
    June
    Local Farmers Day
    Project: StratKIT+
    Physical Meeting
    01. June 2023
    15:00 - 18:00 (EEST)
    19
    April
    Stakeholders' workshop on Sustainable Public Meals Resilient to Crises
    Project: StratKIT+
    Physical Meeting
    19. April 2023
    28-01
    February-March
    BSR Farm-to-school co-creation days
    Project: StratKIT+
    Physical Meeting
    28. February 2023 - 01. March 2023

      Images

      Videos

      Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit implementation: Campaign to drink tap water
      Video 1 of 4
      Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit implementation: Organizing social kitchens
      Video 2 of 4
      Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit implementation: Sustainable diet training for public institutions
      Video 3 of 4
      Prevention of food waste in Rybnik
      Video 4 of 4

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      Pilots

      Outputs

      Publications