
StratKIT+
StratKIT+
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. Authorities need more knowledge on food and public meals to prioritize better and send right messages to the food service providers. Addition to this, stakeholders need more support and tools to tackle different crisis situations that affect the public kitchens. There is a variety of actors that offer support but the information provided would benefit from practical examples with good accessibility. This is what will be developed in the new Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit+.
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 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 to add motivation and commitment to the sustainability goals that are challenging to reach with the limited resources. Municipalities and food service providers should also be able to respond quickly to challenges affected by legal regulations, social changes and different crises, while at the same time not being afraid or reluctant to become local pioneers in GPP or vegan public meals. Addressing it all, StratKIT+ will contribute with a variety of ways to increased sustainability of public meals in BSR.
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Overview
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.
Contact: Henrike Perner henrike.perner@agrathaer.de Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit
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- RegionEtelä-Pohjanmaa
- RepresentativeUniversity of Helsinki
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- TownTallinn
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- RegionAlytaus apskritis
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- RegionLõuna-Eesti
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- RegionØstjylland
- RepresentativeCentral Denmark EU-Office
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- CountryEstonia
- RegionPõhja-Eesti
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Project manager, Financial managerLeena ViitaharjuUniversity of Helsinki Ruralia Institute
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Communication managerIida AlasentieUniversity of Helsinki Ruralia Institute
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Partner Meeting in Riga 17-18.04.2023 04/2023 (6 images) Copy direct link






Practical testing and implementation of Sustainable Public Meal Toolkit 04/2023 (4 images) Copy direct link




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Cooperation towards more sustainable public meals in the Baltic Sea RegionA short article introducing the project for academic and general public published in Finnish language (page 9).|0|
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Stakeholders workshop on Sustainable Public Meals Resilient to Crises - Group Discussion SummarySummary of the group discussion related to the Stakeholders workshop on Sustainable Public Meals Resilient to Crises that was organised in Riga, Latvia in 19th of April 2023. In the workshop over 30 participants shared their thoughts about the most relevant challenges that public meal provision is facing at the moment. The groups discussed about disturbances in the supply chain, staff-related issues, resource efficiency and different changes in the production structure.|0|