22 March 2024 – The Erasmus+ co-funded project NEMOS – A new educational model for acquisition of sustainability competences through service-learning has received the endorsement of Fispmed ONLUS (International Federation for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Poverty in the Mediterranean-Black Sea). A letter of support was sent by President Roberto Russo, who is also the Coordinator of Fispmed’s Euro Mediterranean Black Sea Observatory.
The letter expresses the international network’s “enthusiastic support for the NEMOS project and its innovative approach to integrating sustainable competencies into food-related degree curricula through service learning.
“The objectives outlined by NEMOS, including establishing a food sustainability profile, creating the methodological handbook, and defining a new educational model, perfectly align with the core objectives of our organization, which focuses on sustainable development and on food security issues in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region. We also share the importance of addressing sustainability challenges in higher education.
“Fispmed ONLUS is excited to see the positive impact that NEMOS will have on shaping the future of education and empowering the next generation of leaders in sustainable development. We look forward to following the progress of the NEMOS project and exploring opportunities for collaboration in the future.”
About Fispmed ONLUS and the Euro Mediterranean Black Sea Observatory
The International Federation for Sustainable Development and the Fight against Poverty in the Mediterranean-Black Sea (Fispmed) was founded in 2004 and, to date, has 229 partners in 39 different countries in the Euro-Mediterranean and Black Sea areas, which territorially and by statute represent over 1.8 million citizens of the same area.
Fispmed gives priority to environmental issues and those linked to sustainable development, in line with numerous international documents. It works through actions aimed at strengthening the contribution of the civil society that it represents, giving it the possibility of expressing its own reflections on the community and international policies in which it is directly involved (source: fispmed.org).
The Euro Mediterranean and Black Sea Observatory, born in 2007 as a working tool of Fispmed, aims to encourage the implementation of projects intended to strengthen Italy’s action at a national and international level for greater and better information, education and participation in the field of environmental protection, to develop information and participation in environmental policies and in support of local sustainable economic development actions (source: observatorymedblacksea.net).
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
