FOSTER Mutual Learning Network
FOSTER Mutual Learning Network
FOSTER’s vision is to build a foundation supporting the emergence of a new Knowledge and Innovation (K&I) governance structure for Europe’s food system. In service of this vision, FOSTER will gain insight into how knowledge and innovation systems can be adapted, made more inclusive and better governed to transform Europe’s food system outcomes for health, enterprise and the environment. This will be done by capitalising on existing knowledge and skills across the food system and enable multiple actors to connect, understand, and learn from each other.
By co-developing new insights, methods and tools to assess and manage the full systemic complexity of food systems, the community of people in the FOSTER Mutual Learning Network will be able to better understand the multiple food system drivers, their dynamics and the issues and opportunities (e.g. through citizen science) that relate to them.
Led by project partner at University of Oxford, the FOSTER Mutual Learning Network is based on learnings from projects that include the Interdisciplinary Food Systems Teaching and Learning (IFSTAL) programme and Foresight4Food and themes such as co-learning and reflective monitoring.
Within the FOSTER Mutual Learning Network four Summer School will be organised in Wageningen (2023), Barcelona (2024), Sopron (2025) and Stuttgart (2026).
For details see events.
