FoodCLIC
Integrated Urban Food Policies – Developing Sectoral Connections, Spatial Linkages, Social Inclusion and Sustainability Co-Benefits to Transform Food Systems in City-Regions
Laufzeit: September 2022 – August 2027
Mittelgeber: European Commission unter HORIZON-CL6-2021-COMMUNITIES
Teilprojektleiter: Prof. Peter H. Feindt
Bearbeitung: Julia Behringer
Projektpartner: Stichting Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Kooridnation), Aarhus Universitet, Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona, Budapest Fovaros Onkormanyzata, Cardiff University, Cariplo Factory SRL, Comune di Capannori, Empresa Municipal de Ambiente de Cascais EM SA, ESSRG non-profit KFT, Ernährungsrat Berlin e.V., European Food Banks Federation, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Fundació Privada Institut de Recerca de la Sida-Caixa, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ICLEI European Secretariat GMBH, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability e.V., Affiliated entity: ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability – Africa, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Municipiul Braşov, Stichting Voedsel Verbindt, Universita di Pisa, Universitatea Transilvania din Braşov, Aarhus Kommune, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici, Association mondiale des grandes métropoles
Fördervolumen: € 11.861.832, davon HU Berlin: € 611.062.
Europe’s urban areas face significant challenges to ensure the availability and consumption of healthy, affordable, safe and sustainably produced food. Such challenges converge within local food environments, but are often neglected by public planners. Promising initiatives taken by municipalities to change the architecture of food choice often fail to become embedded in the wider policy context and to reach deprived and vulnerable groups. Key factors responsible for this are: (1) siloed ways of working and (2) fragmentation of knowledge on facilitators and barriers related to food system transformation. These factors hinder the development and implementation of integrated urban food policies. FOODCLIC will create strong science-policy-practice interfaces across eight European city-regions (45 towns and cities). The backbone of such interfaces will be provided by Food Policy Networks, which will manage real-world experimental Living Labs to build policy-relevant evidence through learning-in-action. Activities will be informed by an innovative conceptual framework (the CLIC), which emphasizes four desired outcomes of food system integration (sustainability co-benefits, spatial linkages, social inclusion and sectoral connectivities). Capacity-building and direct support for intensive multi-stakeholder engagement (including food-deprived and vulnerable groups) will enable policy actors and urban planners across partner city-regions to develop continuously evolving integrated urban food policies and render planning frameworks food-sensitive. Results will be communicated and disseminated amongst others by extending the novel policy practices to another eight city-regions in Europe and Africa, an online Knowledge Hub, a high-level Think Tank and partners’ networks. In these ways, FoodCLIC aims to contribute to urban food environments that make healthy and sustainable food available, affordable and attractive to all citizens.