Side Event World FoodSummit, May 3-4, 2022; Copenhagen

Background: Scientific and digital insight is key to reaching 2030 climate goals and the Food, Agricultural and Nature metabolism of the planet represents one of the biggest climate challenges to us all. We need engagement and understanding. Not only among researchers but among citizens. And it all starts at young age – at school. Young people are key to our common future. They need to inspire us with the deep innovation and change that the planet needs. Youth is the period in life where dreams start and adolescence and school is where leadership, creativity, entrepreneurial mindsets and worklife possibilities are created.

Aim: to obtain knowledge and skills in a new practice based food systems education and food literacy training for young people at school. An approach that is founded on Problem Based Learning and achievement of 21^st century skills and computational thinking abilities among pupils.

Learning format: The course provides theoretical and conceptual understanding and insight into how school and primary education can play a role in sustainable food systems transformation

The course includes a day around the conceptual foundations and a full day of hands-on experience with engaged and experienced science teachers and their classes. Teachers and pupils that have all worked with engineering and building of installations, mock-ups, innovations and workshops related to food, science and the digital. We draw on the rich tradition of the SESAM[1]and SELEA[2]and the Young Minds Foodlab (YouMiLa.dk) concepts and programs. 

Learning outcome: You will walk away with a good theoretical and conceptual insight into the potentials of the young peoples food mobilization and into how Project Based Learning, building &construction makerspaces and digital experimentation can be used for the purpose of food systems literacy training among young people.

Organisers: University of Copenhagen, Dept of Geosciences and Natural Resource Mana­gement, UCPH-Science, School services in cooperation with Lund University as part of the SELEA21 International Network Program.

Credits: The course is worth 2.5 ECTS and the diploma is issued by UCPH-Science PhD School

Venue: University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science. Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK 1871- Frederiksberg. 

Registration: https://ign.ku.dk/english/sesam21/. Registration fee: 145 € (food & materials)

How to get there: From the airport get on the Yellow M2 Metro line towards Vanløse and get off at Forum. Travel time around 17 minutes. From there: 5minutes of walking.

PROGRAM
DAY 1: Opening session:

Venue:
UCPH Science Outreach (Skoletjenesten)
 Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C

Opening session – a young peoples engagement in food

9:00 – 9:15: Opening, Tour de table, Practicalities, Bent Egberg Mikkelsen, Professor, course coordinator

9:15 – 9:40. Green Not Grey – how the Future Food project attracts more young people for a career in the food system, Marie-Louise Boisen Lendal co-founder and Director Think Tank Frej

9:40 –10:00 Our Food, Our Food System - strategies and implementation for the EIT Youth Food Mission –  Vivien Bodereau, EIT Food Youth Mission

10:00 – 10:20. The Young Peoples climate mobilization – a new transformative power in society? Insights from Project Planning with Youth. Natalie Marie Gulsrud, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management

Break

10:40 – 11:00 Effective food education- a whole school approach: Melissa Vargas Araya, Technical advisor in nutrition guidelines and standards, FAO Headquarters Rome

11:00 – 11.20 Food systems for beginners - Why young people should learn about systems approach at school, Deniz Koca, Assist. Professor, Lund University, Centre for Environmental and Climate Science (CEC) and chair of LU Food Faculty

11: 45 Lunch

Case studies from schools

12:45 – 13:05 The Young Minds Foodlab experience as a short cut to Science Literacy – first insights from Horizon SESAM program. Bent Egberg Mikkelsen

13:05 – 13:30 Empowering young people for food systems transformation the Brazilian Way – insights from SELEA21. Alessandra Peireira, Professor, School of Nutrition, UniRio, Rio de Janeiro

Break

13:50 – 14:50 Matchmaking & group assignment

Innovation & computational thinking at school

14:50 – 15:10 The UFO’s in your fridge, Using Computational Thinking to explore food waste and climate with 7th grade students. Daniel Spikol, Center for Digital Education and Department of Computer Science, UCPH

15:10 – 15:30 Pupils as future innovators – bridging the gap between school and society with hands on learning. Torben Ingerslev Roug, Teacher and coordinator of UCPH Science Outreach

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15:30 Social cooking at the KU Food Lab and in UCPH Science Outreach Lab. With a Plant Food Based touch, Supervision and instruction: Emilie Viktoria Skriver, master student Dairy Science & Technology, UCPH  

17:30 Social dinner at the KU Food Lab and in UCPH Science Outreach Lab.

19:30 End of Day

DAY 2: HANDS ON PROJECT & PRACTICE DAY

Venue:
UCPH Science Outreach (Skoletjenesten)
 Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1871 Frederiksberg C 

9:00 – 15:00
Young Mind Foodlab Workshops each 1½ hour. Hosted each by a teacher and a crew of pupils. Each workshop is with an opening presentation, Q&A session followed by a hands on building & construction workshop where you as a participant get the chance to try out the activity your self under the guidance of teachers and pupils. Each group will be tasked with present a Project Idea (PI) – a specific sketch for a learning station to be presented 1 week after the course (20 min timeslot). Students will get feed back from a panel consisting of a teachers, a researcher and an educational planner.

1. Plant Based Food Strategies for pupils – how to teach microcomputers, sensors, computational thinking and food at the same time Lis Zacho, Math teacher at Lindevang School and Coding Pirates coordinator and Torben Ingerslev Roug, teacher and coordinator at UCPH-Science, School Outreach

2. Food Waste or NoWaste. How food waste literacy training with a digital touch can be taken into learning reality in middle school, Kirsten Vestergaard Hansen, Home Economics Teacher & Frederik Hein Rogren, math teacher, The Food Waste Living & Learning Lab at Nærheden school.

3. Build your own classroom Vertical Farming Unit and learn how biosignals and sensors can be used to establish biological self regulation. Mukti Chapagain. Research assistant UCPH-IGN/DI-KU.

Lunch break. After lunch continue in the 3 labs

Group Work. Students course assignment.

14:45 Panel debate: The Dragons Food Den? How mentoring and a whole school approach can facilitate food systems learning. Mads Kibsgaard, Relations Manager at GS1 DK and Emilie Viktoria Skriver, master student Dairy Science & Technology, UCPH. Moderated by Bent Egberg Mikkelsen

15:30 Social cooking at the KU Food Lab and in UCPH Science Outreach Lab. With a circular food economy touch. Supervision and instruction Kirsten Vestergaard Hansen, Home economics teacher and coordinator of the Food Waste Living & Learning Lab at Nærheden school

17:30 Social dinner at the KU Food Lab and in UCPH Science Outreach Lab.

Practical info:

Lunch is provided both days as well as a Social DIY dinner collectively prepared in the UCPH Food Lab. For accommodation any hotel in Downtown Copenhagen or in the area Frederiksberg will do. From the city center you can walk to the venue in less than 15 minutes or you can use the Metro line M2 towards Vanløse and get off at Forum. Travel time around 2 minutes from Nørreport. From Forum the UCPH campus at Thorvaldsensvej 40 (the only modern high rise building in the area)is a short walk. If you come directly form the airport you should take the yellowM2 Metro line towards Vanløse and get off at Forum. Total travel time from airport including the walking is 25 minutes.

[1] SESAM is a part of European Researchers’ Night funded by European Union’s Horizon 2020 research& innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant agreement101036115.  It is developed meticulously at 6 schools by more than 200 kids,15 teachers and 25 mentors from academia and businesses. The SESAM21 program was led by Dept of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at the University of Copenhagen in cooperation with Data Science House; Experimentarium, Snitfladen Consultancy and 6 Danish elementary schools

[2] The SELEA project is part of the International Network Program (INP). The project SENSE & LEARN - New Strategies for 21st century life-, learning- & literacy skills training at School will use Urban Food & Farming strategies as a focal point. The project is anchored at Department of Geosciences and Resource Management at the University of Copenhagen. SELEA is a collaboration with the University UniRio in Brazil, the organization Green Rio 21, Advanced Innovation Centre for Future Education, the University of Learning & Education BNU in Beijing and Innovation Centre Denmark in Shanghai.