EBS hosted a kick-off meeting of the project "A Nordic-Baltic Framework for Sustainable Food Systems"

The Ruralia Institute, University of Helsinki, leads the project, with each partner playing a crucial role. Finland is represented by the University of Helsinki and Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), Denmark by the University of Copenhagen and Kost Studio, Sweden by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Norway by Oslo Metropolitan University, OsloMet, the Faroe Islands by the University of the Faroe Islands, and Estonia by the Estonian Business School.

The network and the project are set to achieve significant goals, including strengthening the Nordic region’s position in agricultural and food research within Europe, promoting a Nordic food culture, fortifying the Nordic-Baltic food systems, and facilitating the green transition towards more sustainable food systems.

One of the main aims and outcomes of the project is to provide a better understanding of Nordic-Baltic food systems, including the multitude of actors involved and the identification of critical points within systems for a just and inclusive green transition. This is done by mapping and collecting data in a transdisciplinary way and building the methodological and theoretical bases for a novel database on Nordic-Baltic sustainable food systems (NB-SFSD). The framework of the database will help to identify existing gaps in terms of data and indicators on the Nordic sustainable food system.