14 September 2022 – Representatives from the NEMOS project partner institutions gathered at their 2nd transnational meeting, hosted by the University of Pisa (UNIPI), on 12-13 September 2022. The aim of the event was to discuss the project’s state of the art and the future steps to be taken by the consortium to embed sustainability skills into their food-related degrees’ curricula through service-learning.
Each partner presented the main activities they already carry out related to sustainability and service-learning for the purpose of sharing good practices. Moreover, they exchanged views on how to define a Food Sustainability Profile (FSP) for students to succeed in their professional future when dealing with sustainability challenges.
Based on the results of ongoing qualitative and quantitative surveys involving students, teachers and stakeholders, the FSP will identify the sustainability competences that students should develop throughout their academic path.
After establishing a roadmap to develop the FSP and the subsequent milestone in the project, the NEMOS Methodological Handbook, the partners planned for the first NEMOS multiplier event to be organised online by IGCAT on 20 October 2022.
During the transnational meeting, the NEMOS partners also had the chance to meet Director of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Department at UNIPI, Marcello Mele, as well as Associate Professor in Agronomy and member of the Sustainable Development Committee at UNIPI, Prof. Daniele Antichi.
About the NEMOS Project
The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.
More information at www.nemosproject.com
