FEAST aims to catalyze Europe's just transition to a "Win-Win-Win" food system that yields great benefits for people, the planet, and the public and private sectors.

Through HORIZON-CL6-2021-FARM2FORK-01-15, we aim to transform European food systems to overcome the current "lose-lose-win" model, where large food companies "win" at the expense of the environment, health, and the public sector. FEAST seeks to advance by using existing best practices and developing new solutions in collaboration with food system stakeholders, including vulnerable groups, to facilitate a transition to healthier and more sustainable food behavior at all levels and sectors of the food system.

What role does Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna play in this project?

Within FEAST, the "Management and Healthcare Laboratory" is responsible for leading Work Package 2 (WP2) "Mapping and Monitoring Dietary Patterns", with the objective of investigating the dietary habits of European populations through a large-scale cross sectional survey. The survey will explore purchasing and consumption behaviors, perceived barriers and factors limiting and promoting healthy and sustainable eating, respectively, as well as public opinion on a range of actions that could be implemented in terms of policy to act on food systems. The survey will be disseminated in 27 European countries, reaching about 27,000 respondents. Analysis on the data collected will be led by the School's Management and Healthcare Laboratory and carried out by several academic partners in the FEAST consortium, such as: Sciensano (Belgium), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium), Institut de recherche pour le développement (France), Institut national de la recherche agronomique (France), University College Cork (Ireland), Università di Scienze Gastronomiche di Pollenzo (Italy), Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo (Portugal), Forschungsinstitut für biologischen Landbau (Switzerland). The Results will inform the activities of the project's other WPs in developing and promoting interventions and policies that can improve access to healthy and sustainable food throughout Europe.

In addition to the activities just described, the School's Management and Healthcare Laboratory also participates in the activities of WP4 “Co-developed community-based solutions”, providing methodological and scientific support to the Italian Living Lab led by the Azienda Sanitaria Toscana Nord-Ovest (ASL-TNO) regarding the design of measurement tools, development and analysis of data collected as part of a survey aimed at fostering a healthy and conscious approach toward food and nutrition in middle and high school students. The results of this second study will be discussed with the students themselves to identify factors that contribute, positively and negatively, to healthy and sustainable eating. Interventions aimed at promoting healthier and more conscious lifestyles will follow.

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