Better meals for Europe’s children:
Pathways to serving healthier, tastier, more sustainable food in schools WATCH THE DISCUSSIONREAD THE EVENT REPORT
24 March 2022

10:00 - 13:00 CET

online
Public food procurement can help address today’s most pertinent challenges to health and well-being: from obesity to the climate crisis.
Schools are important places to leverage the multiple health, environmental and social benefits of serving better food.
This online event will bring together a wide range of actors to discuss the different aspects of moving towards healthy, sustainable school meals, and what implications for policy and practice this can have.
Welcome Remarks & Setting the Scene

Milka Sokolović
Director General, EPHA

Manuel Franco
University of Alcalá & SchoolFood4Change project
What’s cooking in Europe? Spotlight on promising initiatives in cities and schools

Elena Salazar
Eating Better Alliance

Lidón Martrat Sanfeliu
Barcelona City Council

Andrea Magarini
City of Milan
What are nutritionally healthy and sustainable meals for schoolchildren?

Perrine Nadaud
French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (Anses)

Marianne Sabinsky
Danish Veterinary and Food Administration

Patricia Colombo
Karolinska Institutet

Agneta Hörnell
Umeå University & European Federation of the Associations of Dietitians (EFAD)
How to accelerate the uptake of healthy, sustainable meals in European schools?

Clare Farrand
WHO Europe

Elin Sandström
Swedish Food Agency & European Public Health Nutrition Alliance (EPHNA)

Mojca Blenkuš
National Institute of Public Health, Slovenia & Joint Action Best Remap

Wim Debeuckelaere
European Commission, Farm to Fork Unit

Marie-Cecile Rouillon
European Commission, Coordinator on the Rights of the Child
Discussion moderated by:

Nikolai Pushkarev
EPHA
Contact
Nikolai Pushkarev
Policy Coordinator for Food Systems & NCD Prevention
nikolai.pushkarev@epha.org