Regions of Bremen and Bremerhaven demonstrate exemplary progress in ensuring access to nutritious food for all citizens.
In a groundbreaking initiative, the city of Bremen has launched the "Shaping the Nutritional Transition Together" (GEG) project at the Kitchen Forum. Funded by the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture, and Home (BMLEH) with 1.25 million euros, the project aims to promote healthy and sustainable food for all Bremen citizens within the next two years.
Dr. Margareta Büning-Fesel, President of the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Nutrition, emphasised that the GEG model region project embodies commitment, cooperation, and innovative spirit. She symbolically handed over herb plants to promote environmental Senator Kathrin Moosdorf and participants in the model region, reinforcing the project's commitment, cooperation, and innovative spirit.
The GEG project's focus areas include increasing the share of organic food in out-of-home catering, reducing food waste, and strengthening regional value chains. Partners from science, business, politics, and civil society are involved in the project, and concrete participation options were presented during the kick-off event, paving the way for first cooperation initiatives.
The project is linked to the "Action Plan 2025 - Healthy Nutrition in the Catering of the City of Bremen". It is also positioned as a pilot or flagship effort within the broader regional or state-wide nutrition and public health strategies. If Bremen has an official nutrition strategy, GEG likely aligns its action areas with the strategy’s priorities, such as reducing diet-related diseases, improving food security, and promoting sustainability, while adding place-based, participatory innovation.
Typical action areas for such projects would include policies and governance, community engagement, education and awareness, food environment, sustainability, and monitoring and evaluation. The GEG project continues to involve partners from science, business, politics, and civil society, fostering collaboration among diverse stakeholders to ensure a healthy, sustainable, and equitable nutritional transition in Bremen.
Bremen, according to Dr. Margareta Büning-Fesel, can take a pioneering role in a health-promoting, sustainable, and inclusive nutritional transition with this project's support. The Kitchen Forum serves as the hub for sustainable nutrition, providing an ideal platform for the GEG project's initiatives.
- The GEG project, with its focus on increasing organic food in out-of-home catering, reducing food waste, and strengthening regional value chains, encourages healthy-diets and supports sustainable-living within the context of nutrition and public health strategies.
- The Kitchen Forum, serving as the hub for sustainable nutrition, offers a perfect environment for the growth and development of health-and-wellness initiatives, such as promoting healthy-diets and sustainable-living, within the GEG project.
- In the "Shaping the Nutritional Transition Together" (GEG) project, partners from science, business, politics, and civil society collaborate to address challenges related to food-and-drink, lifestyle, home-and-garden, and nutrition, championing a more sustainable and equitable future.
- The GEG model region project, with its emphasis on creative thinking, cooperation, and commitment, encompasses elements of both science and lifestyle, fostering a healthy and sustainable living environment for all Bremen citizens.
