This Monday, Vic Borrill (Brighton & Hove Food Partnership) and Katrin Bohn (University of Brighton) welcomed visitors from Letchworth Garden City to the City of Brighton & Hove. As part of the Horizon2020 innovation action project EdiCitNet, the Letchworth team came to study community food projects in Brighton many of whom linked to the city’s charity / social enterprise Brighton & Hove Food Partnership. We also engaged in our first joint work meetings on how to masterplan for a better integrated food system provision in Letchworth which is the overall aim of our cooperation funded through Horizon2020. With great interest did the hosts hear, for example, that, whilst many garden city principles were successfully applied in Letchworth since its founding as the world’s first garden city, the food system aspect is the one principle that ‘never quite worked’.

The Letchworth Garden City team was led by Kevin Jones, trustee of the Letchworth Garden City Heritage Foundation, and initiated by Dr. Susan Parham, associate professor at the University of Herfordshire and urban food expert. It also included representatives of local food initiatives such as the Best Before Cafe Letchworth and Transition Town Letchworth.

The projects and organisations visited showed the spatial and social potential of engaging local communities in shaping their relationship to food and included the Community Kitchen, run by Brighton&Hove Food Partnership, the Bevy Pub, Great Britain’s first community-run pub, Community Orchards established by the Brighton Permaculture Trust, the Preston Park Demo Garden, run by Brighton&Hove Food Partnership, and the former Edible Campus at the Grand Parade site of the University of Brighton.

Article submitted by

Katrin Bohn
EdiCitNet consortium member
University of Brighton
Great Britain

https://bhfood.org.uk/

 The Science Feast was organized by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research – Directorate General of Scientific Research in partnership with the Tunis Science City (CST) on October 30 and 31, 2019. The feast of science aims to raise awareness among the general public about scientific culture, the valorization of research of the scientific community, the stimulation in young people of their curiosity for science and their interest in scientific careers, the discovery of jobs resulting from research, knowledge sharing and exchanges between researchers and citizens in a festive atmosphere.

The EdiCitNet project was presented during the Tunisian Science Feast at a plenary Conference. Prof Latifa Bousselmi explained the framework of the EdiCitNet project, the partnership and the overall objective of this project. She also presented the planned actions and the expected impacts of the project. Different concepts of some Tunisian “edible city” case studies were also discussed with the audience.

During the TESI days co-organized by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MESRS), the General Directorate Research Technology and Development of the European Commission (DGRTD) and the Delegation of the European Union in Tunisia (DUE) to make the state-of-the-art of the Tunisian-European cooperation on Research and Innovation (R&I), REACT presented in the exhibition area the EdiCitNet project (poster) to the visitors and exchanged with them about the EdiCitNet concepts and their potential application in Tunisia. The exhibition was organised at the City of Science of Tunis.

For further information about the event you can visit this site.

Author:  Latifa Bousselmi, President of REACT

Organisation: La Recherche en Action, REACT

Email: association.react.tn@gmail.com