UARD participates in an international project on healthy food in kindergartens
06. 04. 2017
The project is implemented under the Erasmus+, Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices - Strategic partnership in the field of education. University of agribusiness and rural development participated in the project together with partners from Germany, Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Czech Republic and the United Kingdom.
The aim of the Strategic Partnership is to develop an e-learning course and interactive online portal “Sustainable food in kindergartens”, offering learning materials and OERs on sustainable food in kindergartens for pedagogues, kindergarten staffs, caterers and kitchen staff. The content of the developed English pilot course will be transfer and adapt it to the seven partner countries.
Special thanks to our hosts at Vienna - Rosemarie Zehetgruber and Karin Kaiblinger from Gutessen Consulting, who organized a very fruitful meeting. German-speaking countries are among the pioneers in the area of marketing organic food and developing sustainability aspects in regarding VET. According to the Agenda two visits were made to the Water Tower in Vienna, with a focus on an ongoing project in the primary schools in Vienna that promotes increasing the amount of tap water drinking per day for each child, and to a large local catering supplier - Goldmenü, which is an example of good practice in respect of social and environmental discussions in relation to food in kindergartens.
On behalf of UARD the meeting was attended by Prof. Mariana Ivanova and Assist. Prof. Ivanka Shopova.
In October UARD will host the next partners ‘meeting.
