Albin Keuc & Katja SrešEcologists without Borders

23. September 2014

Problem and solution

National platform

Pilot audits

Web portal

Communication campaign

o Households

o Schools and kindergardens

National event – conference

„For Slovenia without food waste!“

Main parts of the project

Member of the EU FUSIONS platform

Member of the working group on food surplus at the Ministry of agriculture and environment

Initiative Save Food, FAO, UN, WRAP – following their activities

Invitation to the key players in Slovenia prepared with the draft declaration of the platform

National platform

Current situation

Web survey:•39 structured questions•Total surveyed 2143•Adequate 933

Pilot audits in schools (5) in kindergardens(1):•Interview•Audit•ProposalsPilot audits in households: •Weekly auditing the food wasted in the household•Recording observations

Sneak preview into the web survey results

Web site, fair and exchange, seeding ideas

Public presentations until 20. September 2014

We presented our project at the national waste conference „Economic and Responsible!“, Zelemenjava (street event for exchange of vegetables and seeds, great network), Znanstival (science fair), where we delivered the „Soup of surprise“, made of parts usually discarded, testing recognition of vegetables by tasting … and communicating with people (young families, older people)

Communication campaign October 15th – December 5th

Goals:•Reducing the amount of food waste by 30 % by June 2015 in participating households•40 media articles by June 2015•500 new Facebook fans by June 2015•200 group members in our Facebook group Volk sit, koza cela•500 tweets under our hashtag

Households focus - Generating practical peoples stories for mediaCollecting recipies and ‚tips & tricks‘: October 6thStart of the campaign: October 15thDiary start – 1st part: November 3rdMain event on Nature-health fair: November 13th – November 16thRevealing the tools and diary start – 2nd part: November 14thEnd of monitorig: November 28thResults: December 5th

January-March 2015 – Focusing on schools and kindergardens

Communication campaign October 15th – June 2015

Channels:•Selected media coverage •Ambassador•Facebook page & group•Twitter & YouTube•Web page•Fair Nature-health•Monthly newsletter

Strengthening the organisation

Internal organisation – internal management

Broadening the volunteer base

New project ideas:Grandmother knows (with Slovene Federation of Pensioners’ Associations and others)intergenerational cooperation, social inclusion, knowledge transfer… and many more

CAREFOR 3R(with Ostfoldforskning, MTT, Fraunhofer Institut, TUD, TUB, SOTON et al.) - submitted to EU Horizon 2020 on September 16crossing fingers now

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