Krakow – Poland

Population Group Targeted

Healthy children and adolescents from low SES. 

Low SES

Children
and adolescents
(age : 1-16)

PRESENTATION OF THE AREA AND ITS RELEVANCE

About Krakow…

  • Krakow is the second largest Polish city with a population of 800.000 inhabitants.
  • Nowa Huta district: 18th district of Krakow where 25% of the city population lives, strong working class history, relatively limited access to financial capital and cultural resources.In Poland:
  • Poland has the highest rate of rising childhood overweight and obesity in the EU and needs prevention programmes going beyond individual responsibility.
    – Overweight: children (1-3 years): 10%; early school-age: 30%; adolescents: 22%.
    – Obesity: boys (13%); girls (5%).
  • Poverty in Poland: 4,2% (extreme) 6,5% (statutory) 12% (relative).

MEMBERS

Krakow in Greenery, Kraków Municipal Greenspace Authority (ZZM)

As part of the Municipal Greenery Board in Krakow, the "Kraków in Greenery" team organizes events, workshops, recreational activities and encourages Krakow residents to actively spend time in green areas. We want parks to become, as they once were, centers of social life, gathering and engaging residents, positively influencing the restoration of social bonds between neighbors and others. Krakow in Greenery also facilitates various projects and events related to urban food systems, urban agriculture and food education.

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Krakow Public Kindergarten No. 96

The Kindergarten supports children in motor and musical expression, and develop creativity and sensitivity to beauty. Since the beginning of preschool’s existence, it has been referring to the culture and traditions of the region. It develops and nurtures children's individuality and uniqueness, taking care of their well-being, strengthening their self-esteem and teaching respect for others.

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Department of Nutrition and Drug Research, Institute of Public Health, Jagiellonian University Medical College

Institute of Public Health is conducting scientific research and development, as well as training within the broadly defined area of public health. The focus of its scientific and didactic interests and efforts is on those aspects of health care that fall outside medicine, such as: health care organization, administration and management; health economics; social aspects of health care systems; epidemiology; health promotion; community health; nutrition; management of medicines and medical devices; computerisation and issues related to dissemination of information within health care system.

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Krakow Food Bank

Krakow Food Bank is a charity focused on logistics. It find ways to obtain free food from supermarkets and producers, and then distribute it to food insecure sectors of Krakow region's population.

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Institute of Mother and Child

The Institute of Mother and Child (IMC) is an academic and research institution, with 60 years of tradition and a proven track record in Poland and on the international arena. The IMC was founded in 1951 by the Polish Council of Minister's resolution and has participated in solving health-related and social problems of mothers, children and adolescents since that time.

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Public Elementary School No 105 in Krakow

Public school in Krakow (Nowa Huta district). The integrated approach is applied at school, for more inclusive education. The school is engaged in various projects to enrich its educational, health-related and community-oriented profile.

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Krakow Centre for Climate Education

Krakow Centre for Climate Education is a public institution aimed and increasing sustainability and climate change awareness. It closely cooperates with Krakow municipality and local community, organizing events and workshops for diverse groups of citizens.

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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

Ewa Kopczynska

Associate Professor of Food Sociology​

Barbara Ostafińska-Molik

Postdoc Researcher in Education Science​

Agata Rejowska

Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology

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