Six top topics of the program

Food Place Making

What Role can Food Play in Place-making in Oldham? 

Anna da Silva - Northern Roots

An update on the progress of the Northern Roots project, and proposals for the role food can play in the project as it develops.  

Oosterwold: Largest Urban Farming Project in the World 

Jan-Albert Blaauw - Almere Oosterwold

In Oosterwold it is mandatory to use half of your property for urban farming. A future total of  15.000 households makes an unbelievable opportunity for sustainable, short chain food production. How do we take charge of this challenge….  

Food community and ecosystem building

Good of Maramures Labelling System

Mihaela Lite - Maramures County Council

Good of Maramures Labelling System is an initiative inspired by best practices of our project partners and is part of Maramures Action Plan 

Flevofood Association – actionplan FC4EU

Bauke van der Veen - Vereniging FlevoFood

What has Flevofood learned and developed in 4 years FC4EU? We share our learnings on cooperation, using a shared B2B platform for sales, a changed governance structure and sharing knowledge.  

Supporting Food Entrepreneurs

Setting up short food chain business 

Femke Mosch - Horizon Flevoland

Setting up short food chain business, by start thinking from consumer perspective 

Supporting Food Entrepreneurs 

Hilary Centeleghe, Marc Appleton - Business Growth Hub Manchester

An overview of the transfer of good practice supporting food entrepreneurs from Greater Manchester (UK) to the Province of Flevoland (NL) 

Food Education

Educating for Food System Transition in Almere and Flevoland

Esther Veen, Henk Renting - Aeres hogeschool

Authority, Business, Consumer

Rada Dinkova - University of Food Technologies - Plovdiv

Food Research

Design and Planning Sustainable Food Packaging Systems

Riccardo Accorsi - University of Bologna

Food Communication Board

Rada Dinkova - University of Food Technologies - Plovdiv

Food Policy

Harmonization of regional structural funds: the experience in the Emilia-Romagna Region

Mario Montenario - Emilia-Romagna Region

Food policy Evolution in Greater Manchester

Adrian Morley - Manchester Metropolitan University