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The General Directorate of Integration, Strategic Planning and Economic Development, at Municipality of Tirana, organized the "Living Labs", under the "Food Trails" project.
The project aims to enable cities to develop and implement sustainable, healthy and inclusive food policies. Each partner city runs a pilot project, a "Living Laboratory", a space for work, dialogue and collaboration to foster innovation, connecting key local actors who create and collect ideas that will lead to changing urban food policies.
The project has its origins in the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact (MUFPP), an international agreement of mayors. The project translates the Pact's commitments into concrete progress towards more flexible, secure, fair and diverse urban food systems in Europe.
In order to obtain the opinions of all actors in the drafting of this policy, as well as for the improvement of local and central policies, the Municipality of Tirana also developed a Life Laboratory, in which the opinions of all interested parties on food were obtained, starting from production and to food waste management.
Living Labs aim to co-design and co-implement integrated policies and actions related to food in line with the EU Farm to Fork Strategy and EU-FOOD2030 Policy priorities: nutrition, climate, circular economy and innovation .
Food Trails facilitates collaboration between cities and researchers to encourage knowledge sharing, replication and scaling of best practices.
Ms. Adela Krajka, Head of European Integration and Foreign Projects, at Municipality of Tirana, presented the achievements of the project and made a summary of the objectives and expectations of the cooperation for all the participants in the event. She emphasized that in the framework of the Project, the Food Policy on the City of Tirana will be drawn up, which will be based on two main pillars; in improving healthy nutrition for all layers of the population and in reducing food waste.
Ms. Ida Borelli, project expert, made a presentation of the EU FOOD 2030 Agenda, the main goals of the project and the ways to achieve them.
Ms. Leida Matja, project expert, carried out two phases of the Laboratory. The first phase was about the contribution that all interest groups through "Brainstorming" techniques and group work had to contribute to the design of food policies for the City of Tirana and the second part was explained to the participants the importance of their contribution on signing the Cooperation Agreement between the Municipality of Tirana and the Institutions that constitute the parties of interest for joint actions in relation to:
1. Promotion of healthy food,
2. Reduction of food waste.
The participants were familiarized with all the points of the Agreement and a period of one week was left for its signing.
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