26 March 2024 – Some of the partners in the NEMOS consortium will be conducting a Networking Activity at the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI 2024) to be held in Helsinki and Espoo (Finland), as well as online, on 10-14 June 2024.
The aim of the Networking Activity will be to transfer the lessons learnt in the NEMOS project – co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union – which are contained in NEMOS’s Methodological handbook in food sustainability through service learning, to other subject fields and educational levels, after piloting them in food-related degrees. The handbook is intended to be a practical tool for teachers, helping them provide students with the skills necessary for addressing sustainability within the curricula.
Translated into 5 languages (English, French, German, Italian and Spanish), the Methodological Handbook is a quick practical guide for integrating sustainability competences through service learning in a systematic way throughout the degrees. At SRI 2024, it will be presented along with some of the NEMOS case studies and a short project video, already available on NEMOS’s website homepage. The onsite moderators (Maria J. Cantalejo, coordinator of the NEMOS project, and Sami Ghnimi, one of the consortium partners from ISARA-Lyon), together with an online moderator (Maite M. Aldaya, from the Public University of Navarre) will enable the exchange of ideas and discussion on different implementation options and collaborations for improving the Methodological Handbook in the future. The feedback and implementation interest from the participants will be collected through direct inputs and through an online form. The impact will be measured in terms of the number of participants interested in implementing the Methodological Handbook, the number of different educational fields and levels covered, and, after the Activity, the number of participants implementing in practice the Methodological Handbook.
The NEMOS project partners: the Public University of Navarre (UPNA, Spain) – the leading institution, the University of Pisa (Italy), Graz University of Technology (Austria), Technological University Dublin (Ireland) and Higher Institute of Agriculture Rhone Alpes I.S.A.R.A. – University of Lyon (France), and their networks are encouraged to participate in the Networking Activity. The International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism (Spain), an EU-wide network, is responsible for the dissemination of the Activity.
About the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress
Since 2021, the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI) has united global leaders in research, government, civil society, and business to meaningfully advance progress towards sustainability. The SRI Congress offers an exceptionally inclusive and inspiring global platform for co-creating state-of-the-art solutions and innovations and building a coalition of the willing to achieve a sustainability transformation. SRI is co-convened by Future Earth and the Belmont Forum with local co-organizers.
SRI has been held in Oceania, Africa, and Latin America, and is now heading to Europe. In 2024, SRI will be organized in collaboration with Sustainability Science Days (SSD), which for over six years has been the largest sustainability science conference in Finland. SSD is a joint collaborative effort between Finland’s two largest universities, the University of Helsinki, and Aalto University (source: sricongress.org).
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
