19 June 2024 – The Vice-rectorate for Education of the UPNA has approved the teaching innovation project entitled Promotion of sustainability competences in primary education from September 2024 to September 2026.

Based on the methodology of the NEMOS project (see NEMOS’s Methodological Handbook in Food Sustainability through Service-learning), this new initiative aims to develop tools that promote sustainability competences and contents that are useful for future primary education teachers.

The development of a Methodological manual for the incorporation of sustainability competences in the Degree of Primary Education will allow the transfer of the NEMOS project’s learning and methodology to primary education teaching degrees at further universities, primary education centres and other organisations related to primary education.

Furthermore, these learnings could serve as a starting point for extending this knowledge to other educational levels, including secondary education.

About the NEMOS Project

The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.

More information at www.nemosproject.com

18 June 2024 – Coordinator of the NEMOS project, Maria J. Cantalejo, from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA) is a member of the Intersectoral Monitoring Committee of ENEAS 2030 (Navarre Strategy for Environmental Education for Sustainability 2030). A stable forum for intersectoral meetings, the Committee aims to promote the participation and coordination of social agents, companies and professionals involved in Environmental Education for Sustainability, representatives of the Government of Navarre in Spain and other Public Administrations related to the Strategy.

The Navarre Strategy for Environmental Education for Sustainability 2030 seeks to define a new framework adapted to the new approaches to environmental education, closely linked to international debates on climate emergency and sustainability, to the new socio-environmental challenges facing us and to the regional, national and international commitments made by the Government of Navarre.

These challenges, which Environmental Education for Sustainability must address, allow us to define it as a key tool in the search for and implementation of solutions that make it possible to reduce impacts and improve our relations with the environment – from the local to the global scale – as well as to advance towards sustainable development in its social, economic and environmental dimensions.

The ENEAS 2030 Intersectoral Monitoring Committee was launched at a meeting on 23 May 2024, where a draft was presented of the first Environmental Education Action Plan for Sustainability 2023-2025.

About the NEMOS Project

The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.

More information at www.nemosproject.com

17 June 2024 – A Networking Activity was presented on 13 June 2024 by some of the partners of the NEMOS Consortium at the University of Helsinki in Finland.

The aim of this Networking Activity was to transfer the lessons learnt in the NEMOS project co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, which are contained in the Methodological handbook in food sustainability through service learning. This is intended to be a practical tool for teachers helping them to provide students with the skills necessary for addressing sustainability within the curricula, to other subject fields and educational levels.

Also, some NEMOS case studies were shown, along with a short project video and the Methodological Handbook (translated into 5 languages) as a quick practical guide for integrating sustainability competences through service learning in a systematic way throughout the degrees. The onsite moderators (Maria J. Cantalejo, the main coordinator of the NEMOS project, and Sami Ghnimi, one of the local partners from ISARA-Lyon) and an online moderator (Maite M. Aldaya from UPNA-Spain) enabled the exchange of ideas and discussion on different implementation options and collaborations for improving the Methodological Handbook in the future. The feedback and implementation interest from the participants were collected through direct inputs and through a Google Form. The impact was measured in terms of the number of participants interested in implementing the Methodological Handbook, the number of different educational fields and levels covered, and, after the Activity, the number of participants implementing in practice the Methodological Handbook.

In the case of ISARA-Lyon, the renewal of the accreditation DD&RS (Sustainable development and social responsibility) is one of its main outcomes in recognition of the improvement achieved thanks to the NEMOS project. ISARA got the renewal of DD&RS accreditation and is progressing in this strategy and moved from level 2 (initiation) (at the beginning of the NEMOS project) to level 3 (conformity) (during the NEMOS project) and still more challenges to be addressed to reach the level 4 (mastering). According to Sami Ghnimi, they are applying now to achieve this level and level 5 (Excellence) in the coming years.

About the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress

Since 2021, the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI) has united global leaders in research, government, civil society, and business to meaningfully advance progress towards sustainability. The SRI Congress has offered an exceptionally inclusive and inspiring global platform for co-creating state-of-the-art solutions and innovations and building a coalition of the willing to achieve a sustainability transformation. In 2024, SRI was organized in collaboration with Sustainability Science Days (SSD), which for over six years has been the largest sustainability science conference in Finland (source: sricongress.org).

About the NEMOS Project

The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.

More information at www.nemosproject.com

24 May 2024 – María J. Cantalejo Díez, Professor at the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) and coordinator of the co-funded Erasmus+ project NEMOS, will give a presentation on How to transfer the sustainability competences through green pedagogies and service-learning at the 12th International Conference on Sustainable Development – ICSD 2024, on 12 September 2024 in Rome, Italy.

In particular, UPNA’s presentation will focus on the final project result of NEMOS, consisting in practical sessions held to train university lecturers who teach in different degrees to effectively integrate sustainability in higher education.

The International Conference on Sustainable Development is organized by the European Center of Sustainable Development in collaboration with the Canadian Institute of Technology – CIT. ICSD 2024 is inspired by the critical challenge of human, environmental, and economic sustainability concerning the present and future generations in a global-scale context.

The Conference theme will be Creating a unified foundation for the Sustainable Development: research, practice and education, aimed at emphasising the strong foundation that is provided by using research to inform our everyday practices, policies, and analytical approaches.

The 2024 edition will once again provide a forum for sharing ideas, presenting research findings, and discussing professional issues that are relevant to Sustainability Science. This ambition will proceed in a multidisciplinary way across various fields and perspectives, through which we can address the fundamental and related questions of Sustainable Development.

This interdisciplinary forum welcomes scholars, teachers, and practitioners from any professional discipline who share an interest in—and concern for— sustainability in a holistic perspective, where environmental, cultural, economic and social concerns intersect.

About the NEMOS Project

The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.

More information at www.nemosproject.com

24 May 2024 – Coordinator of the NEMOS project, María J. Cantalejo Díez will participate in the 22nd World Congress of Food Science and Technology – IUFoST presenting Examples of Food Industries With Zero Waste: Revalorisation of Whey By-products in line with Embedding Sustainability Through Service-Learning. Michael Murkovic, NEMOS local partner from TU Graz, will also attend the congress that will be held in Rimini, Italy, from 8 to 12 of September 2024.

Under the motto The Future of food is now: Development, Functionality & Sustainability, the congress programme will include industry-based workshops, distinguished plenary and keynote

speakers, industry led concurrent sessions, applied research presentations and a plethora of networking opportunities since it is expected to attract more than 2,500 delegates from America, Europe, Asia-Pacific and worldwide. The congress aims to outline the new challenges that the sector will face and for this reason the multi- and interdisciplinary meeting of all the scientific communities, that too often operate isolated from each other, will be welcome.

About the NEMOS Project

The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.

More information at www.nemosproject.com

23 May 2024 – The NEMOS consortium has recently released a new video to present the project NEMOS – A new educational model for acquisition of sustainability competences through service-learning, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union.

The video, that explains the different phases of the NEMOS project and its results, will be presented at the Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI 2024) to be held in Helsinki and Espoo (Finland), as well as online, on 10-14 June 2024.

Specifically, some of the partners in the NEMOS consortium will be conducting a Networking Activity to transfer the lessons learnt throughout the project,

which are contained in NEMOS’s Methodological handbook in food sustainability through service learning. Attending partners will be Maria J. Cantalejo, coordinator of the NEMOS project, and Maite M. Aldaya, from the Public University of Navarre (UPNA), as well as Sami Ghnimi, from ISARA-Lyon.

About the NEMOS Project

The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.

More information at www.nemosproject.com

28 March 2024 – The NEMOS consortium has officially launched its Methodological Handbook in Food Sustainability through Service-learning. The result of a two-year collaborative process within the Erasmus+ co-funded project NEMOS – A new educational model for acquisition of sustainability competences through service-learning, the Handbook aims to take a step forward in the transition towards education for sustainability, through practical and innovative educational approaches and interventions.

By pooling the knowledge and experience of the five higher education institutions involved in the project – the Public University of Navarre (Spain); Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria);

Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); with the support of the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism (IGCAT – Spain) – NEMOS’s Handbook proposes possible ways of implementing new educational models to effectively acquire sustainability competences through service-learning in food-based degrees.

Each institution had a different educational food-based programme and started from a different baseline in terms of experience and practice in implementing sustainability through service-learning. As the main outcome of their joint work, the NEMOS’s Methodological Handbook aims to bring together the key lessons learned, and the recommendations gathered throughout the process, hoping to facilitate decision-making for teachers and higher-level educational institutions that want to start or continue integrating and promoting sustainability competences in the curricula and classroom daily practice.

The Methodological Handbook, will soon be available in the rest of the languages of the consortium (French, German, Italian and Spanish) to serve as a reference for further institutions to implement the methodology developed by NEMOS and adapt it to their specific contexts.

Download the Methodological Handbook in Food Sustainability through Service-learning

About the NEMOS Project

The NEMOS project acknowledges sustainability as an increasingly crucial skill for graduate and post-graduate students to tackle important global challenges such as climate change, food waste and the loss of biodiversity in their professional future. Therefore, the project aims to define a new educational model to integrate sustainability competences in the curricula of food-related degrees by means of service learning.

Co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, the NEMOS project is led by the Public University of Navarra and includes the following consortium partners: Technological University Dublin (Ireland); Technological University Graz (Austria); Rhône-Alpes Higher Institute of Agriculture (France); University of Pisa (Italy); and IGCAT.

More information at www.nemosproject.com