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
