Blog: Celebrating the #WorldFoodDay
The theme that the World Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) had given to World Food Day this year 2021 was “Our actions are our future”. And so it is, like everything in life, each step and each action we undertake determines our future....
Blog: Exploitation – One of the key activities in FUSILLI
The exploitation of results is an activity whose importance is sometimes underestimated. As Steinbeis Europa Zentrum, we are responsible for all exploitation activities, that is, all innovation management- elated tasks within FUSILLI. With this blog...
Blog: 38 kilos/inhabitant avoidable food waste in Oslo
Oslo’s recent household waste analysis shows 38 kilos avoidable food waste per inhabitant/year The City of Oslo has a recycling system where residual waste, food waste (green bags) and plastic packaging (blue bags) are disposed of in the same container. The waste...
Blog: Opening of Fællesskabet – A Community Fridge 4 All
Fællesskabet Kolding - Free fridge Kolding are community fridges based in Kolding with free surplus food open for anyone 24/7. The fridges are the third of their kind in Denmark and are inspired and supported by FællesSkabet Aarhus and Copenhagen. The fridges are...
Nilüfer: Balconies will turn into mini gardens in Nilüfer
Nilüfer Municipality, one of the twelve FUSILLI Living Labs, has continued its free seedling distribution campaign launched in 2020 with the slogan "Seedlings from Us, Products from You" in order to encourage the public to cultivate balconies, terraces and roofs,...
Blog: 6th Seed Exchange Festival in Nilüfer
As Nilüfer Municipality, we declared 2021 as the Year of Food and with the FUSILLI project that will last for four years, we have now started to transform our urban food system. With the 6th Seed Exchange Festival, we are taking baby steps for the FUSILLI project...
What do city dwellers eat in 2030? Where does food come from? (Tampere Press Release)
Global food production has a significant impact on the atmosphere and ecological carrying capacity. The City of Tampere, Tampere University of Applied Sciences, Ahlman and Ekokumppanit received over a million euros of EU funding for the Fostering the Urban Food...
FUSILLI newsletter out now
The first issue of the official FUSILLI newsletter is out now. Are you signed up yet? Sign up here. The first issue covers topics like the famous "meatball gate" in Oslo, Norway as well as the opening of the Sustainability House in Kolding, Denmark. Other...
Blog: How to successfully disseminate and communicate FUSILLI
Communication is a word that most everybody has some sort of association with, e.g. spreading the word, informing, talking about a product. With dissemination, it’s a bit different – at least that was my impression when I first heard the word during a job...
“Meatball Gate” in Oslo
Our FUSILLI city Oslo recently experienced a national media storm about the meatballs in their local nursing homes: the central kitchen, which delivers dinner to all 26 public nursing homes in Oslo, decided to add 20 % beans to their traditional meatball recipe...
