Co-creating healthier and more sustainable food habits with local communities
Living Labs are participatory spaces where pregnant women, families, professionals, policy makers and local communities work together to design solutions that support healthier and more sustainable Mediterranean eating habits during pregnancy and early parenting.
PANACEA is setting up three regional Living Labs, one in each intervention country for pregnant women, families, health professionals, community actors and food system stakeholders.
- Spanish Living Lab
- Italian Living Lab
- Egyptian Living Lab
Why Living Labs?
Healthy and sustainable eating is not only an individual choice. It is also shaped by access to food, time, family routines, cooking skills, local traditions, prices, available support and community environments.
For this reason, PANACEA project uses Living Labs to listen to the people who are directly involved in family nutrition and local food systems.
The aim is to co-design actions that respond to real-life needs and help families adopt Mediterranean dietary habits in a realistic and sustainable way.
Through this collaborative process, PANACEA will ensure that its intervention is practical, inclusive, culturally relevant and easier to apply in everyday life.
- Understand the real needs
- Main barriers families face when trying to eat healthy
- Local resources and opportunities available in each region
- Types of tools and activities that families find most useful
- Ways to connect families with local and sustainable food options
- How to adapt the project tools and activities to different cultural and social contexts
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