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Food is much more than nutrition

Understanding of food, our cultural heritage, habits and activities around the food can help to address societal challenges, build communities, foster participation and learning.

The best first step to learning about the ways how food can be used to facilitate activities within social impact field, is taking a look at the ones who already do this. In a set of online interviews you can meet the initiators and practitioners that work with food in their activities on daily basis.

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NetFork is a network of international organizations and individuals that are interested in exploring the power of food for solving challenges of society – reduce isolation and social exclusion, address environmental issues and help people to learn and connect to each other.

This website serves as a starting ground for displaying and promoting working approaches and methods of organisations around the Europe in which food is the central element – a rich catalyst for social bonds,a versatile tangible tool, as well as the topic of ever pressing matters. Food is much more than many think of it, and our mission is to reveal its full potential.

A research was conducted in 27 EU countries to see what approaches use food within the facilitation process to bring social impact. As a result, we have created a thorough report on the existing trends and gathered more than 70 examples of used facilitation tools and methods.

There is so much to learn about the variety of aspects of how food could be used to bring social change! In a row of articles and case studies we highlight some of these aspects to provide a deeper understanding about this rich and multifaceted medium.

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This website was prepared within NetFork for Impact project No.2021-2-LV02-KA210-YOU-000050601. The views expressed here are the sole responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Commission.