🥁🎶Drums beating, bagpipes playing: the Food Trails APM meeting in #Funchal has begun! Dr Helena Leal, Councillor for Education, shared an important achievement: the launch of the local #foodstrategy a sign of local commitment to progress towards a more #sustainablefoodsystem.

Diving into the core of #Day 1⃣ at the Food Trails APM. 🧑‍🏫With the knowledge sharing workshop cities took the🎙mic and shared crucial lessons learned in the implementation of the #livinglabs. #EuFoodCities

🤔What are the key elements for scaling up projects? We asked the Food Trails cities as part of the knowledge sharing workshop on the day 1 of the APM in Funchal. Long-term structural funds, education & bottom-up initiatives emerged as the most significant drivers. #EuFoodCities

📈📊#Monitoring the results of innovative pilot actions is crucial for planning the future of urban #foodsystems.🌱 🔎At the Food Trails APM, 11 cities critically compare the indicators developed to monitor their pilot actions with the #MUFPP indicators. #EuFoodCities

How cities are thinking to financially and strategically support their Living Labs after Food Trails? Insights from the last session of the APM knowledge sharing workshop suggest that one strategy can be combining municipal budget, funded projects, and private partnerships.

🤩Day 1 at Food Trails partners' meeting continues with a field visit to key locations of #Funchal Living Lab! 1st stop: the new🔬Science Center boosting food literacy among youth, raising awareness on biodiversity, nutrition, and food systems sustainability.

✨The field visit continues! Food Trails #Funchal team guides the consortium partners to explore a wonderful👩‍🌾urban community garden, fostering urban food production and enhancing access to healthy food for all.🌱 Food Trails #AnnualPartnerMeeting Year 3 - Day 1⃣

🌾Final stop of the day for Food Trails consortium in #Funchal: a field visit to the research unit of the University of Madeira, #ISOPlexis. Discovering the importance of preserving local seeds for biodiversity and building a future-proof agriculture and food economy.🌱

Day 2⃣ at the Food Trails Annual Partner Meeting in #Funchal💥 🧑‍💻The morning opened with a #foodpolicy knowledge-sharing workshop, with a focus on mapping multi-level #governance relationships within the #foodsystem of each city, which will help to model practices and knowledge

At the beginning of Food Trails, only 3 out of 11 cities had food policies. As we enter the project last year, significant successes are already there: by 2024 all cities will have implemented food policies, paving the way for the next steps towards more sustainable food systems

Working on a multilevel governance mapping grid to visually represent the complexity of the food ecosystems. Food Trails cities will identify: ✅key food policy actions and public services ✅administrative competences allocated across different levels & their interactions.

🤩Exciting challenge ahead for Food Trails partner cities as we kick off knowledge-sharing activities with 28 Cascading Cities. Coming up study visits, webinars, and workshops. Stay tuned for insights!💪 #EuFoodCities 🔘Food Trails #AnnualPartnerMeeting - Year 3🔘

Day 3⃣ at the Food Trails annual partner meeting focus on the📣dissemination and exploitation of the project's results. Eurocities APRE Food Policy Milano

💗Thanks to all who joined @Food_trails Year 3⃣ Annual Meeting! Grateful for the fantastic exchanges among #cities, #researchers, & #partners. ✨Special thanks to #Funchal team for warm welcome, organisation, fantastic buffets, & musical surprises that made us feel at home🎉

In Milan this week working on an exciting new project … watch this space! 👀

Day 1️⃣ of the #cascade visit to Comune di Milano 🇮🇹 Métropole Aix-Marseille-Provence Metropolitano de Lisboa VilledeRennes and rennesmetropole learnt more about the Milan’s #food #policy and visited #cascina #cuccagna, an #urban #farmstead converted into a space dedicated to social activities 🪴 #EUFoodCities

🤩The Food Trails Mid-Year4 #PartnersMeeting – the last one! – just kicked off in #Warsaw. A crucial meeting to coordinate efforts & build the project’s legacy. 💪Let’s work together to support the city-led #EU #FoodSystems transformation! #EuFoodCities #EuFood2030 Milan Urban Food Policy Pact

🤔How can pilot actions influence local food policies? 📍Food Trails cities shared their experiences on this topic at the Partner Meeting in🧜‍♀️Warszawa. ✨What's your take on it? Share your thoughts! 🎤 #EuFoodCities #EuFood2030

Excited to hear Natalia Boitot Warszawa presenting the #FoodLab ➡️created as part of Food Trails ➡️focused on co-designing innovations ➡️adopting a human-centered design & #systemic working method ➡️developed with SWPS University Eurocities WGFood & Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Regional Forum #EU