Tampere’s Urban Food Action Plan

The FUSILLI Project has developed 70 Innovation Actions to transform the food system in the cities. These actions based on the different stages in the food system: governance, production, distribution, consumption, and waste, are implement through Living Lab activities during the project period. This Urban Food Action Plan gives an overview of the city as a Living Lab, the challenges they face and the plan of action that they pursuit.

Read Tampere’s Urban Food Action Plan in brief below

Food is an important part of activities in the city and its nearby areas, with the greater Tampere region of Pirkanmaa housing more than 4400 food producers. Food production can also be seen around the city, with inhabitants enjoying growing food in allotment gardens, garden plots and in their own yards. New urban areas also invest in the development of urban gardening possibilities in their green spaces. The Hatanpää allotment garden, established in 1916, was among the first in Finland.

Main objectives and planned implementations

• Creating methodology and establishing a Living Lab (LL) in Tampere with (but not limited to) the following actions
  • Creating Biointensive raised-bed Garden plot for regenerative urban micro-farming business model
  • Research and innovative LL product & concept development together with students of Tampere University (TAMK), companies and public sector actors.
  • Promos, pop-up -restaurants and participatory workshops are implemented in real life environment and in TAMK Catering Studio
  • Develop concepts of urban micro-farming for citizens, neighbourhoods, NGO’s, public organisations, e.g. schools and kindergartens and produce educational materials and (ICT) tools needed for the concepts
  • Developing a concept of community kitchen in the nursing home Kotipirtti
  • Focusing on distribution through e.g. developing and promoting Pirkanmaa brand
  • Inviting different actors to participate in creating a Living Lab for sustainable food transformation in Tampere
• Policies definition at local level and creating an urban food action plan responsible for peri-urban and rural interlinks.
  • Collection of information on food system projects and policies, local framework development.
  • Integration of food systems vision and roadmap to the Sustainable Tampere 2030 strategy and taking into account other areas such as City Planning to develop a sustainable urban food system
  • Workshops and seminars related to sustainable food systems.
• Coaching and learning exchange. Dissemination of results on national and regional level and through food sector coordination groups.

Links to local FUSILLI pages in Finnish

• FUSILLI  |  Tampereen ammattikorkeakoulu
• Fostering the Urban food System Transformation through Innovative Living Labs Implementation, FUSILLI | Tampereen yliopisto (tuni.fi)
• FUSILLI  |  Tampereen kaupunki – Organisaatio
• FUSILLI-hanke: Overview  |  LinkedIn
• FUSILLI-hanke Tampere  |  Facebook
• Mikroviljelyn monet kasvot haussa FUSILLI-hankkeen living labeissa | ekokkumpanit.fi

• FUSILLI – Urban Farming Project | Puutarha – paja.ahlman.fi