- From 3 to 5 October II Healthy and Sustainable School Nutrition. The International Conference organized by the Association of Fathers and Mothers of Students of the Basque Country (EHIGE) is being held in Bilbao. These days are called joy. It will be able to learn exemplary experiences, both at national and international level, promoted by public institutions, projects carried out by producers and achieved by the educational community.
Healthy eating and education will be addressed from different areas in the days. On the one hand, they will make known some of the experiences of interest promoted by public institutions. Some of the projects to be presented are:
The City Hall of Vitoria-Gasteiz manages five children's schools with organic, sustainable, fresh and seasonal food, and during the days it will explain how they got started and the difficulties encountered along the way.
The public catering manager of the Italian Sesto Fiorentino will explain how they have gone from being a kilometric food company to being a public company that offers their schools local organic food.
The City of Valencia has a consultative and participatory body in the sector, called the Food Council of Valencia, whose objective is to promote a more sustainable, healthy and fair local agri-food system. The conference will explain the legislative proposals being made by the Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs and the Generalitat Valenciana to regulate the advertising and marketing of bad food.
Challenges and difficulties for local producers in supplying school meals
The local primary sector is key to ensuring healthy school meals. The Ereindajan project in Debagoiena will be announced in this area.
The experience of the Navarro Council of Organic Agricultural Production, which has managed to include in 12,000 school menus of 50 educational centers in Navarra "TOP 5" (ecological, local, fresh, seasonal and primary sector), will also be analyzed.
These days will also discuss the importance of public procurement to promote a sustainable and fair primary sector.
The educational community as an agent
According to the organizers, "the educational community should be an element of pressure to achieve a healthy diet for the students". As an example, they will present two stable experiences that manage the public school dining room with local organic products: Laukariz (Mungia) and Orduña.
The Murumendi School of Beasain will announce the project it has launched together with the Biziola cooperative.
And the public school San Juan de la Peña de Jaca will also make known its experience: it manages its dining room directly.
with local and seasonal food.