The Kharkiv Children Food Living Lab (KCFLL) was established as a platform for cooperation and the co-production of knowledge and solutions through shared local experiences. The core mission of KCFLL was to co-create and disseminate knowledge and innovative approaches to children’s meals. It explored various theoretical and practical aspects of children’s food, addressing issues such as food production and storage, healthy meals for children in schools and families, food safety and biosecurity, festive foods in private and public settings, and urban food systems.
Following the invasion, the Kharkiv lab reoriented its goals toward building food sustainability in Kharkiv under war conditions. The key challenges it aimed to address included maintaining social sustainability during wartime and determining how the Living Lab could continue its operations. In
