KISMET – Sustainable Food Environments
Picture. Nathan Dumlao.
With Kismet, we change our destiny and transform the current food systems in cities and regions around the Baltic Sea to sustainability.
Kismet provides them with concrete instruments and tools for working better with governance, demand and production sides.
Project Activities and the Solution
The project tackles the challenge that local and regional authorities often lack capacity, require new impulses or need innovative solutions for realising more circular and sustainable food environments. Kismet provides them with concrete instruments and tools for working better with governance, demand and production sides.
The project’s overall solution is the “Enabling Programme for Sustainable Food Environments”, developed by the 13 partner organisations from seven Baltic Sea Region countries. The programme entails a mix of concrete tools for making local food environments more sustainable.
Enabling Programme for Sustainable Food Environments
Kismet pilots the solution in 8 local cases, and South Savo’s pilots will take place in Savonlinna during 2024. After piloting, the Enabling Programme is transferred to further target groups via friendship cities for jointly implementing and rolling out the solution.
At the end of the project, the local food environment of each partner and their friendship city will be better equipped to eventually change consumer behaviour for good, create circular business opportunities and make food chains and production more regional so that societies can make a big step towards climate neutrality.
Work Packages
WP 1 Preparing solutions
1.1 Prepare “participation, governance and integration modules”
1.2 Prepare “guidance for demand-side drivers”
1.3 Prepare a “roadmap for production side drivers”
1.4 Set the stage for the cases in the 8 local innovation partnerships
1.5 Prepare an evaluation concept for the combined “Enabling Programme”
WP 2 Piloting and evaluating solutions
2.1 Pilot the “participation, governance and integration modules”
2.2 Pilot the “guidance for demand-side drivers”
2.3 Pilot the “roadmap for production side drivers”
2.4 Transnational exchange and cross-fertilised learning
2.5 Evaluate and revise the Enabling Programme
WP 3 Transferring solutions
3.1 Organize outreach campaign to include friendhips cities – communicate and exploit results
3.2 Onboarding and introducing friendship cities
3.3 Friendship cities implement the solution supported by transnational activities
3.4 Develop a Durability Master Plan for the Enabling Programme
Pilots in South-Savo
The pilots of the Enabling Programme will take place in Savonlinna during 2024.
Databank – About the South Savo Food Chain
Databank – About the South Savo Food Chain
Implemented in cooperation with the European Cluster Network to Support South Savo Food Companies project. The Databank focuses on the food chain in South Savo and gathers information from primary production to the consumer’s table.
Seasonal pyramid – Kindergarten
Seasonal pyramid – Kindergarten
Seasonal pyramid – Elementary school
Seasonal pyramid – Elementary school
Seasonal pyramid – Secondary school
Seasonal pyramid – Secondary school
Seasonal pyramid – High school
Seasonal pyramid – High school
Seasonal pyramid – Staff cafeteria
Seasonal pyramid – Staff cafeteria
Seasonal pyramid – Eldery residents
Seasonal pyramid – Eldery residents
Events
27.6.2024 Coffee with Kismet#13
20.6.2024 Coffee with Kismet#12
16.5.2024 Coffee with Kismet #11
2.5.2024 Coffee with Kismet #10
25.4.2024 Coffee with Kismet #9
28.3.2024 Coffee with Kismet #8
14.3.2024 Coffee with Kismet #7
29.2.2024 Coffee with Kismet #6
14.2.2024 Savonlinnan Ruoka Forum: Millä Eväillä Tulevaisuuteen?
1.2..2024 Coffee with Kismet #5
25.1.2024 Coffee with Kismet #4
7.12.2023 Coffee with Kismet #3
30.11.2023 Coffee with Kismet #2
26.10.2023 Coffee with Kismet #1
More information
Piia Mikonsaari
Project manager
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences
tel. +358 50 4108 048
piia.mikonsaari@xamk.fi
Jenni Palosaari
RDI Specialist
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences
tel. +358 50 9111 364
jenni.palosaari@xamk.fi