On Tuesday 25 June, the Green Plate Forum 2024 event took place at the BOKU University in Vienna, attended by representatives of the Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences. The event focused on sustainable eating and environmental protection through unique culinary practices and recipes from different cultures.
This activity was implemented within the project "Networking through student cooperation on case study challenges (NET-COOP)" funded by a grant from the Euroleague for Life Sciences (Faculty of Tropical AgriSciences (czu.cz)), in which three partner universities (ČZU in Prague, SLU from Sweden and BOKU from Austria) cooperate.
This event was part of a student initiative organized by students from BOKU in cooperation with students from the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague and SLU in Sweden, and was conceived as a final joint meeting of students who participated in the development of joint case studies during the summer semester and shared their knowledge from different perspectives according to the focus of their respective study programmes and subjects.
Participants at the meeting discussed Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG2), which focuses on eradicating hunger, ensuring food security, improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture.
Students prepared a tasting menu where each country was represented by one dish and shared recipes. The focus was on the sustainability of the production of the selected dishes and on the sustainable consumption aspects. The event introduced sustainable approaches to preparing food from different continents. In particular, recipes from Turkey, Iran, Ethiopia, Colombia and Germany were presented.
The Green Plate Forum 2.0 was aimed at sharing the latest scientific knowledge with the wider scientific and development-oriented public, including practitioners, policy representatives and stakeholders. The event provided a space for students to meet and share their views and experiences during thematic discussions. Project coordinators from FTZ Petra Chaloupková and Olga Leuner together with 9 students from FTZ participated in the implementation of the event and used their knowledge gained from the Project Monitoring and Evaluation course for the case studies.
