Catalonia – Spain

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Population Group Targeted

Adults from work life to retirement and elderly from all SES. 

Adults
and elderly
(age: 40-85)

All SES

PRESENTATION OF THE AREA AND ITS RELEVANCE

About Catalonia…

  • Region with an important identity component within the Spanish State 
  • Within the geographical sphere of the Mediterranean Diet but has its own cuisine and intangible cultural heritage. 
    • One of the greatest agricultural productive Spanish pole. 
    • Densely populated (main city Barcelona) and highly industrialised territory 
    • 19,2% population over 65 years old 

MEMBERS

Fundesplai  

Education and social action NGO dedicated to the promotion of coexistence and sustainability. They provide 50,000 school meals daily and promote healthy and sustainable food through training, resources, educational programs, EU projects, and the exhibition EAT, ACT, IMPACT.

Adeac

NGO, created in 1984, responsible for the international programs Blue Flag, Green Key and Eco-schools in Spain. They promote supportive civic-environmental attitudes and behaviours, support citizens in the search for solutions to environmental problems and promote the implementation of concrete actions at the local level.

Soulblim

Soulblim is a company of organic and local producers that offers fresh products, including own productions and premium food selections from producers and processors who share the same philosophy. They are specialized in the distribution of food for professionals, restaurants, and shops.

Alicante university

Assistant Professor at the University of Alicante who collaborates with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). Her main lines of research are related to Public Health, Community Nutrition and Food Education, and more specifically on Food Environments.

ASPCAT

Contribute to protecting and promoting health, preventing disease and reducing health inequalities in the population, monitoring and anticipating risks, in collaboration with all agents of the public health network, the health system and the community.

Triptolemos

Private foundation that contributes to proper, sustainable, affordable and trustworthy food and to the dignification of the sector, in accordance with proven knowledge, science, and technology. Its members include 26 universities, companies, consumers, and food banks, among others.

L’Era

L’Era is an association that promotes and disseminates ecological agricultural production, agroecology, and all systems that help the agricultural sector advance towards greater global sustainability, encompassing environmental, social, and economic aspects.

Consum

Consum has 874 supermarkets, both its own and franchised. The Cooperative is the first food distribution company to obtain the « Reduzco » seal from the Ministry for Ecological Transition and has reduced its carbon footprint by 86% since 2015. It also has more than 4 million member-customers and 19,337 employees.

Blanquerna university

Graduate in Pharmacy, master’s degree in nutrition and food quality and PhD.
Associate Professor at the Blanquerna Faculty of Health Sciences – Ramon Llull University,
Coordinator of the Nutrition and Health Council of Ametller Origen, and
Member of the Board of the Catalan Association of Food Sciences ACCA, of the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC).

Gemma Navarro

Head of Dietetics and Nutrition at the ‘Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau’, a highly complex centre that, with six centuries of existence, is the oldest hospital institution in Spain. Its activities are mainly centred in Barcelona and are spread throughout Catalonia, as well as having a notable impact on the rest of Spain and an important international projection.

Nadia San Onofre

Postdoctoral researcher specialised in food and public health. Currently member of BALMIS research group of the University of Alicante, with participation in the project « Implementation of a Human Milk Bank in the Hospital Belén de Trujillo » of the University of Valencia.

Fruits del Secà 

Fruits del Secà was born in 2013 with the aim of making agriculture more respectful of the environment and of marketing products obtained through short circuits. They cultivate, process and sell dry fruits, pulses, cereals and flax, which we then process to be able to sell. They also have a stone mill which allows them to transform the cereal into flour and thus be able to reach small forges that work with local products.

GRoW

The GRoW (FCSBlanquerna – Universitat Ramon Llull) develops research, training and knowledge transfer actions around health promotion and disease prevention and treatment from an interdisciplinary and participatory perspective, in order to contribute to improving the health and well-being of the population.

IrsiCaixa

The Living Lab for Health’s mission is to facilitate multi-stakeholder innovation networks to solve complex and persistent health challenges and increase collective impact through methodologies of system innovation. It addresses prevention and health promotion challenges (e.g. healthy and sustainable diets, affective and sexual health, mental health and COVID-19 prevention), as well as prevention, diagnostic, and therapeutic challenges around diseases that have co-morbidities or require consideration of a wide range of factors (e.g. Long COVID or the development of immunotherapies). The Lab has the support of the « la Caixa » Foundation and projects funded by the European Commission.

CONTACT US

F. Xavier Medina

Director of the UNESCO Chair on “Food Culture and development”

Leader of FoodLab

Alicia Aguilar

Researcher at FoodLab 

Anna Bach

Researcher at FoodLab 

Laura Esquius

Researcher at FoodLab 

Guadalupe Moreno

Project manager

Iris Blázquez

Plan’EAT Technician, PhD Researcher at Foodlab

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