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The Horizon Europe Project Foster Food System is all about integrating heterogenous perspectives on knowledge and innovation in the European Research Area, meaning that universities and research centers closely collaborate with non-academic initiatives such as citizen initiatives, innovation advisors and advocacy groups. In FOSTER, we call these initiatives “Change Driven Initiatives”, or in short – CDIs! Recently, project coordinator DIL Deutsches Institut für Lebensmitteltechnik e. V. had the pleasure to host a workshop led by our partners from Fraunhofer ISI, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Cuhls, Ariane Voglhuber-Slavinsky and Miquel Banchs-Piqué. This workshop was all about the potential design, structure, and key

In FOSTER, we aim to share science-based information about food systems with the public. For that, we established our FOSTER Platform, the place for communication, learning and foresight results. The FOSTER digital Platform was updated with the links from the Horizon Scanning activities – the links were rechecked, and some new links were added.The FOSTER context scenarios are also available on the platform. Meanwhile, we prepared our repository of other EU projects, where you can get some useful information about food-related projects and get links to these projects. We would also like to know your questions about food systems and

At the University of Hohenheim’s Agricultural University Day, our FOSTER project partners Uli Ostarhild from the Food Policy Council Stuttgart and Prof. Verena Seufert from the University of Hohenheim, had the opportunity to discuss the question ‘Working the fields together – how can practice and science research together at eye level?’. The discussion took place in a fishbowl format and included several ‘tandems’, i.e. project partners from both science and practice, showcasing examples of transdisciplinary research projects in an agri-food system context. The FOSTER team provided an example from the civil society perspective, while other examples came from transdisciplinary projects focusing on production and

On October 9th and 10th 2024, FOSTER had a two-day event, comprising a Project Meeting and a Joint Workshop of FOSTER consortium and FOSTER science-policy expert panel. The event was held in Brussels, Belgium at the Representation of the State of Lower Saxony to the European Union. Project Meeting 2024 On October 9th, project members – including academic partners, Change Driven Initiatives (CDIs) and the Chair of the FOSTER Expert Panel, Janet Dwyer (University of Gloucestershire) – came together to reflect on FOSTER’s progress over the past two years. The main theme was exploring FOSTER’s contributions to transforming the food