RE-TASTY

Maria Neocleous Maliotou: As the coordinator and manager of this citizen science food project, I am involved in all parts of its implementation. With a background in first Food Science and later on in Education for the Environment and Sustainable Development, this project allows me to combine my backgrounds in order to inspire and engage students in healthy and sustainable school food systems. I enjoy researching and creating new knowledge and I am enthusiastic in passing this also to students and future scientists. I believe that students, as the future generation of this planet, should be given the opportunity and the voice to get involved in topics such as health and sustainability in eating. Through researching their own school food system, they can propose actions and be themselves producers of knowledge and agents of change.

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Valentina C. Tassone: As advisor of this citizen science food project, I will be contributing to its development and implementation. I work as Assistant Professor in sustainability education at Wageningen University. My work focuses on exploring participatory educational design and deep pedagogies that support processes of transformation of people and practices, that empower learners to re-think their relationship with the (natural) world and to engage responsibly with socio-ecological sustainability challenges as for example food challenges.

 

​​Ester Klein Hesselink: For me, human health and planetary health are two very important values. That is why I had started a bachelor in Nutrition and Health at the Wageningen University. Soon I concluded that ‘Humans can only be healthy when the Earth is Healthy’. With this quote I continued a master in Forest and Nature Conservation, specified in ecology and management. In my second year, I discovered that true nature-human relationships are far gone in society and I decided to bring this back in (secondary) education through my current organisation the Parliament of all Earth Beings. The RE-TASTY project is for me a perfect project to bring human-food relationships in educational institutes back in their natural status. Therefore, I assist with pleasure in execution of this project.​​