A new recipe for school meals

Purpose and goal

The goal is to design and demonstrate school meals that drive sustainable development. Policylabs with stakeholders will identify policies, regulations, structures and routines that hinders and support such a development today. Prototype schools will be supported to take measures that can then be scaled up nationally and internationally in order to design school meals that drive social, ecological and economic sustainability. A new school meal system can serve as a driver for further transformation of the entire food system.

Expected effects and result

In the short term, the project will create multi-stakeholder engagement and school food concepts with a possibility to scale. A more sustainable school food system can be expected to contribute, for example, to improved health, expanded collaboration in municipality and state, improved social structures, increased biodiversity, reduced climate impact, strengthened local economy, increased civic activities, improved climate adaptation, better educational results, new policies, new forms of food production, improved relations between producers and consumers.

Planned approach and implementation

Given the complexity of the ideas, a particular multidisciplinary design team will be put together to pursue the brief. An open design process, in which the prototype is developed ‘in public’, physically and digitally, will enable coordinated discussion around the ideas embedded in the work. Supporting diagrams should indicate the multiple outcomes produced by these transformed schools, as well as the ‘invisible’ layers of enabling infrastructure, such as governance, code, law, policy and capability.