Funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3, Theme 10.
Funded under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.3, Theme 10.
Dietmeter app
Coordinator
The mapping of educational needs on a healthy and sustainable diet will be carried out through a collaborative process engaging all relevant stakeholders: students (aged 0-10) and families, community groups, teachers, auxiliary staff. Training needs for a sustainable and culturally responsive diet will be identified by connecting two trends: increased socio-cultural diversity in school population and increased efforts to improve quality of school meals. The task aims to: a) explore food education activities currently implemented in schools; b) analyse strengths & weaknesses as perceived by stakeholders; c) co-create culturally responsive food education practices tailored to the identified needs.
Report on the mapping of educational needs related to a healthy and sustainable diet including food use optimization (i.e., food waste reduction) (M14)
Training toolkit for supporting early childhood and school personnel in implementing culturally responsive and sustainable food education programmes based on actual school community needs (M24)
Food is one of the main levers to optimize human health and environmental sustainability on Earth. So an important challenge facing humanity is to provide the population with healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Unfortunately, today 828 million people still don't have sufficient food, while an even greater number consumes low-quality diets or consumes too much food. Unhealthy diets are today a greater danger in terms of morbidity and mortality than alcohol, tobacco, and road accidents use combined.
The picture just outlined is further aggravated, both in terms of human health and environmental sustainability by food waste. Indeed, the UN Food System Summit 2021 emphasized the multiple impacts of food waste in terms of environmental impacts. Additionally, EUROSTAT estimated that in 2020, approximately 127 kg of food waste was generated per inhabitant in the EU, making a total of almost 57 million tons across all the member states.
So modern societies are dealing with an unsustainable food system, in which unhealthy diets and food waste play a fundamental role.
During the three years of the project, and based on the experience gained in the creation of Wastemeter App, a new tool will be created, the Dietmeter App.
This tool will make it possible to monitor (in grams) everyone's daily diet through a food diary and how much this diet deviates from a standard Mediterranean diet (Mediterranean adequacy index).
Furthermore, the weight of foods reported in the diary will be transformed into economic (Euro) and environmental impacts (water footprint and carbon footprint). Based on the results obtained, informative and educational content will be provided in the form of short videos, in-depth information sheets and educational quizzes which aim to change incorrect eating habits and behaviors.
Through the App it will be possible to interact with other users by creating clusters (Clan): friends, family, school/university class, company, public administrations, etc. comparing one's own behaviors, which are translated into scores, because what is proposed will be a challenge to win all together.
The App Dietmeter seek to provide the users with knowledge and tools for monitoring their eating habits and lifestyles, and understand the related economic and environmental impacts that are generated. The App Dietmeter aims to generate common and shared knowledge, to guide individual actions to healthy and sustainable diets.
Overall the App Dietmeter will:
