How to Create a Sharing Platter: Food, Social Innovation and Collaboration across Europe
Organised in the framework of Unusual Suspects Festival the event brings together URBACT networks that will explore the role of food in stimulating innovation and collaboration.
2014 is definitely the food year for URBACT! With 4 on-going networks working on such topics as markets, sustainable food in urban communities, the role of gastronomy in building attractive cities or school dinners as a driver for positive local food strategies, there are many things we have to share on this topic.
Organized within the Unusual Suspects Festival, the URBACT event will draw on the experience from Diet for a Green Planet and Sustainable Food networks and will also benefit from the participation of Bilbao, a city that explored how to use gastronomy as a change driver in the Basque Country. The event will explore the role of food in stimulating innovation and collaboration, by sharing stories from the Netherlands, Sweden and the Basque Country, illustrating how food is connecting partners and stimulating cross sector working.
The Unusual Suspects Festival is a four-day festival organized in London that will blend international expertise and innovation with local thinking and practice from across the UK and feature a collection of interlinked events that will draw out the ways in which collaboration and social innovation can work in sync and ask how this can help address some of the most difficult issues we face in society today. The Festival will take place in London during September 2-5, 2014 and is curated by the Social Innovation Exchange, Collaborate and The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
The URBACT event will take place on the 5th of September. More information about the event here.
If you can’t make it to London, don’t forget about our Workshop on Food-related initiatives for sustainable local development during Open Days, In Brussels.