Call for experts – food policy

Seeking food experts!

Are you a practitioner with direct experience on implementing policy and projects related to food at local level?
Are you a lawyer focusing on procurement, a behavioural specialist, a marketing expert or a dietician, an urban planner, or a data expert with a keen interest on food challenges in European cities?
Then we are looking for you!

Food Trails is an EU-funded project that aims to translate the Milan Urban Food Policy pact‘s shared vision and commitment into integrated, measurable, long-term progress towards sustainable food systems in Europe. At the heart of the project lies the co-designing and co-implementation of pilot actions in 11 European city regions with the aim to develop innovative and integrated urban food policies.

The Food Trails consortium is now looking for external remunerated experts, ideally, practitioners directly involved in urban food projects and policies or related topics (citizens’ engagement, marketing etc.), to be involved in the project’s knowledge-sharing activities.

Such a programme represents a unique opportunity to work with cities and their local stakeholders to shift urban food systems toward healthy, fair, sustainable standards.

Possibilities for experts to be involved are twofold:

  1. Support partner cities by being involved in the Food Trails peer-to-peer learning programme (ca 8 full days of work), including travel
  1. Provision of technical training and targeted support through online knowledge-sharing workshops (ca 4 full days of work)

Eurocities, on behalf of the project, is looking for experts with diverse and complementary competencies and experiences to meet the partners’ learning needs, among others:

  • Awareness raising and citizens’ engagement
  • Behavioural science
  • Nudging and marketing
  • Urban food system assessment and the mapping of the urban food activities
  • Food policy and strategy, and food policy council development.
  • Food dignity and access, and ensuring vulnerable groups’ inclusion in policy making
  • Public procurement           Supply chains logistics and length
  • Healthy diets and nutrition, including nutrition education
  • Food waste and circularity
  • Urban and peri-urban agriculture
  • Innovation
  • Climate change mitigation and adaptation and biodiversity protection
  • Land tenure

Are you interested?

You can read the full call for interest here.

To propose yourself as a candidate, please send your CV and a short Motivation Letter explaining how your participation would support the goals of the Food Trails Project (max 1 page) before 20 June 2022 to the following email address:  info@food-trails.eu

Please specify your topics of expertise, interest in one of both activities and your financial retribution expectations for one (1) workday, VAT excluded.

Any question? Contact us at info@food-trails.eu