As FEAST continues to grow, our mission to create meaningful impact advances through a refined strategy, innovative initiatives, and partnerships that reflect our core values. This second-year highlight report demonstrates our growth and commitment to pushing boundaries, promoting sustainable practices, and inspiring change in the European food system on a larger scale. We invite you to download and explore our achievements, ongoing progress, and expanded initiatives. Join us as we build on our foundation, accelerating toward a future where progress and purpose come together.

This source presents a cross-cultural food pyramid designed to guide children's dietary habits for healthy development. The pyramid encourages a balanced diet rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes, and fish while limiting processed foods, sugary drinks, and saturated fats. It highlights the Mediterranean diet as a model for a nutritious and culturally diverse approach, demonstrating how different regions incorporate their own traditional ingredients within the pyramid's framework.

This milestone references the dataset created to achieve Task 2.2 of FEAST WP2 “Explore adherence to and factors influencing healthy/sustainable dietary choices across Europe”. It involved the design of a cross-sectional EU-survey based on a quantitative questionnaire to collect primary data on dietary patterns; purchasing and consumption behaviours; barriers and facilitators to the adherence to healthier and more sustainable diets; and opinions on food system policies, from adult populations across the Europe. FEAST Milestone – Data collection completed and integrated into the FEAST database (zenodo.org)

The first  ‘Policy Chat’ webinar organised by EuroHealthNet explored how food culture shapes food system policy. The speaker Atsuko Ichijo (Associate Professor, Kingston University, London), Tim Smits (Vice-Dean of Education for the Faculty of Social Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium), and Lorenzo Bairati (Associate Professor of Comparative Private Law, Faculty of Gastronomic Sciences, Italy) gave insights into the often-overlooked influence of food cultures, exploring how traditions evolve through exchange, reflect power dynamics, and even become political tools.
Here, we share the webinar slides – Does manipulation of food culture impact food policy? 

The Business Impact Assessment (BIA) was used on Obesity and BIA Sustainability to conduct a baseline assessment of how businesses affect food environments. Both the BIA-Obesity and the BIA-Sustainability were developed by the International Network for Food and Obesity/NCDs Research, Monitoring and Action Support (INFORMAS) for benchmarking food company policies and practices on population nutrition and sustainability at the national level (Mackay et al., 2022; Sacks et al., 2019). FEAST - Report on BIA-Obesity/Sustainability assessments (zenodo.org)

This report describes how FEAST LLs assess local situations regarding challenges related to vulnerable target groups they have identified, features of the relevant food system mapped through SWOTanalyses, and respective kick-off events that brought together those actors that are necessary to codesign and implement solutionsincluding the voices of those affected by the local burning issue related to food security. FEAST - Report on Living Labs kick-off (zenodo.org)

First update of the DEC plan after 18 project months of monitoring and evaluating the DEC activities.

FEAST - Dissemination Exploitation & Communication Plan (update 1) (zenodo.org)

The download package includes four postcards with our message - What's on your plate? The files are ready-to-print files in a DIN A6 horizontal format. These postcards are ideal for students, researchers, and media and communication experts and can be used for communication activities or in presentations. 

FEAST is not just about accomplishments; it’s about making a meaningful impact. As we marked our 1-year anniversary, its only wise to share this impactful journey with you. This brochure encapsulates FEAST’s initiatives, achievements, and collaborations in the past year. From groundbreaking initiatives at our Living Labs to impactful collaborations, our journey has been nothing short of extraordinary. Download the brochure to explore our first-year highlights, and join us in celebrating a year of achievements and possibilities by spreading the word!

Milestone document M7.1 - Guidance on Stakeholder mapping. A toolbox to tackle frames hindering the transition to healthier and more sustainable food systems. Food systems are extremely complex, and it is too often neglected that topics and concepts involved may not be conceived in the same way by all actors involved. Different stakeholders frame differently even the most fundamental concepts – e.g., sustainability, food security, health, etc. – and these differences may slow down policy implementation and may impede policy formulation. https://www.zenodo.org/record/8272810

This project was presented in a poster the NetworkNature annual meeting 2023 conference in Brussels and also at the CLEVER Cities conference in Hamburg. Social and Therapeutic Gardens developed at IPVC Inclusive School project improved relevant social-emotional, cognitive, and behavioral skills, and thus increase interest in healthy eating and sustainable consumption.

“Good data management and stewardship is not a goal in itself, but rather a pre-condition supporting knowledge discovery and innovation”. The structure of the FEAST DMP follows the structure of the template provided by the EU for Horizon Europe projects. This document is the first version of the FEAST DMP; the DMP will be continuously updated during the course of the project. FEAST - Data Management Plan (zenodo.org)

Efficient and effective Dissemination, Exploitation, and Communication (DEC) will be essential in helping to achieve FEAST’s strategic objectives. The DEC activities will be developed leveraging the full spectrum of knowledge and skills inherent within the FEAST consortium, including partners’ knowledge on cultural differences and norms for European citizens and especially vulnerable groups. FEAST - Dissemination Exploitation & Communication Plan (zenodo.org)

The FEAST one-pager is a poster that summarises the most important facts of the project.
Due to its small format DIN A3, it is easy to produce and can be used with great flexibility even in confined spaces.

The Design Guidelines (DG) manual summarises the components of the FEAST visual identity. 

This zip contains the FEAST logo as png, jpg, and svg files. 

The FEAST map shows the locations of our living labs and associated sites in the respective food regions in Europe.

This infographic gives an overview of FEAST activities at the micro, meso, and macro levels and how to address the stakeholders.

Food systems in Europe are largely unjust and not sustainable. Despite substantial negative consequences for individual health, the environment and public sector health and care services, large multi-national corporations continue to benefit from the way food systems are designed—perpetuating “Lose–Lose–Lose–Win” ... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2022.1039127/full