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From village to city!

With the “from village to city” activity within the project Cities2030 the Municipality of Murska Sobota wants to restore the city’s soul and revive the

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Pitch event – Taste Day

Vejle Municipality / Culinary Institute by Vejle Erhverv host TASTE DAY as part of a broader effort to promote understanding of taste and nutrition in

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Experiment: Bokashi – Food waste bio composting

The Lahti Living Lab’s experiment at Cities2030  is “Bokashi – Food waste bio composting”. Its objective is to explore bio-composting food waste from the table to the fields to enhance inhabitants’ positive carbon handprint, self-sufficiency, and resilience.

The amount of food waste in Finland is staggering with a total of 360 million kilos of food being thrown away every year. Households’ proportion of the wasted food is 107 – 137 million kg (33%).   In the urban setting, food waste is approximately 50 kg annually per person.

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Eat differently…

The Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences and the ttz Bremerhaven invite you to a varied program in the THP house of the university (Theodor-Heuss-Platz 1 in Bremerhaven) as part of the European Sustainability Week.

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Pitch Event: Local Cooking

On August 29, 2022, Vejle Municipality (P10) /Culinary Institute by Vejle Erhverv, proudly hosted the “Local Cooking” competition. This culinary contest was specifically designed for

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Team Agrotopia from Inagro took part in the international conference for horticulture in Angers

The International Horticultural Congress (IHC) gathers every four years experts and stakeholders in the fields related to horticulture. This year the scientific program was structured in 25 symposia over 5 days complemented with workshops and site visits at the city of Angers. Team Agrotopia from Inagro took part in the international conference for horticulture in Angers (IHC2022), sharing our own experiences on professional urban farming and the potential of the living lab approach in food system transformation.

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Iasul in bucate

It is over the Fair of Iași in Traditional, Organic, and Mountain Dishes (9-10th of July 2022,  Parcul Expoziției of Iași)

We would like to give special thanks to the consumers who attended the fair in an impressive number, at least 7,000 persons. Their trust in local producers contributed to a very cordial atmosphere of the fair overall. At the same time, special thanks go to the participant producers for their seriousness and high quality of the products as these have contributed to the fair’s success.

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The Fair of Iași in Traditional, Organic, and Mountain Dishes (9-10th of July 2022,  Parcul Expoziției of Iași)

On the 9th and 10th of July, between 10 a.m and 9 p.m., the Fair of the Producers from the North-East Region of Romania will be held under the brand name Iași in Traditional, Organic, and Mountain Dishes. The fair is organized by Iași City Hall, Romanian Academy-Iași Branch, and Iași County Agricultural Directorate and held in the Main Alley of Parcul Expoziției ((aka Exhibition Park), in Iași City. 

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Meeting with local producers in Food for Iasi Living Lab. June 10, 2022

We met with local producers in Iași County to identify the problems they face in the agri-food chain. The meeting was attended mainly by producers of animal products, but also vegetable growers. In the first part, the Cities2030 project and the innovative Food for Iasi Living Lab hub were presented. During the meeting, issues were identified, especially regarding: market access, access to financing, support of local authorities.

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EU Horizon2020 projekt Cities2030 VE GO RA INVENTIVNA RJESENJA

VE-GO-RA and Inventivna rješenja Ltd at the 1st transnational meeting of the Cities2030 project and the Agri-Food event in Belgium

As part of the EU Horizon2020 project Cities2030, the Development Agency VE-GO-RA and INVENTIVNA RJESENJA d.o.o. participated in the first transnational meeting of 41 European partners and the Agri-Food event in Roeselare, Belgium. The partners discussed the future activities and current challenges of the project with regard to the complexity of the project activities and related goals, i.e. creating prerequisites for further development of the project.

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Day 3 in Roeselare for Cities2030 partners

Day 3 in Roeselare for #Cities2030 partners.
A jump into the future of #agrifood visiting the giant rooftop greenhouse of #Agrotopia, the largest public building in Europe for urban food production. In parallel, another group coordinated by Hogeschool VIVES partner in #cities2030 has been implementing a workshop on #foodprocessing and health to close in the best way a 3 day of full immersion in the urban food system.

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General Assembly for Cities2030 Project. 1st of June 2022

Today, partners of the project Cities2030 meet in Roeselare, Belgium, within the first in-presence General Assembly (GA), to discuss the main achievements of the project. The GA also provides excellent conditions to discuss the next steps forward, and finetune the many activities of the project developing in parallel

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Iași in Traditional, Organic, and Mountain Dishes

Today, the 30th of May 2022, within Food for Iași Living Lab, there was a working meeting organized by Iași County Directorate for Agriculture, Iași Cityhall, and the Romanian academy, Iași Branch. The primary result of the meeting was organizing the event known as Iași in Traditional, Organic, and Mountain Dishes in the Exhibition Park of Iași, during the 8 and 10th of July, 2022. 

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Policies and strategies for the development of the food system in the city of Iași

Yesterday, on the 24th of May 2022, it was organized the workshop Policies and Strategies of Developing the Food System in Iași. The event was organized within the Food for Iași Living Lab hub by the Iași Cityhall and Romanian Academy, Iași Branch. The meeting focused on discussions with the representatives of the public institutions from Iași food system and also tried to identify some issues from the perspective of the public authority. The identified views will be on the agenda of future meetings with other actors and agents of the urban food system.

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