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"Eat and study", guide for those who want to transform the school dining room

  • Do you worry about feeding the center, what are young people learning and how does that affect the community? Do you want a healthy, educational, close, agroecological dining room and right in school? To this end, they have gathered many tips and guidelines in the guide “Eating and learning, from school”.

The groups that have started the transformation process of the dining room want to transmit their experience to the educational communities that want to act in the same way, for which they have received a series of guidelines, ideas and orientations; the guide has been on the network for two weeks. The guide refers to the context, the regulations, the essential precautions, the possibilities that exist in a center that does not have a kitchen and how to act in case of having a kitchen.

Our dish is our choice

In 2015, the Ensure Platera Aukera initiative started to reflect on school canteens. Sleep based experiences and the desire for future dining rooms to be the ones they wanted were put in place in several centres. Since schools that want to do the same ask for information, everything they have learned has been made available to them, and this is the last step to get on the net.

In order to find another dining model, the groups behind the initiative have stated that the process is still alive: “We intend to enrich this guide with the learning, good practices and resources we get.”

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