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...
Opening of the Sustainability House in Kolding
On 7 May, our Living Lab city Kolding, Denmark celebrated the grand opening of their "Sustainability House", which is located in the middle of Kolding city centre at Jernbanegade 3. Grand Opening In the afternoon, the Mayor of Kolding came and “cut the tape”...
Start of FUSSILI work on Living Lab development
By May 2021, the team responsible for the development of the 12 FUSILLI Living Labs(Work Package 1) has submitted two deliverables to the European Commission: D1.1. "Living Labs for Urban Food System Transformation - an inventory report" and D1.2. "Guidelines for...