Learning objectives

Learning objectives AESOP4Food seminar

AESOP4food online seminar supports: • A broader and general understanding of the contemporary challenges and existing strategies of sustainable food planning and food systems transformation.

Acquiring core competencies for sustainable food planning: systems thinking, values thinking, anticipatory and strategic competence and collaboration

• Awareness of main contemporary challenges to sustainable food systems, its multiple dimensions (social, environmental, economic and spatial) and setting (cultural, local and regional) in the context of spatial planning • Critical reflection on personal values, competences, and especially the role of the planner in a pluralistic society (expert vs facilitator) in developing a more resilient food system • General understanding of concepts such as City-Region food systems, theory of change, transition thinking and prototyping • Analysing a part of a food system or a specific food initiative • Engaging local community through participatory problem-solving techniques • Mapping and evaluating the power structures and the role of main stakeholders in the food system • Exploring the techniques of collaborative challenges and goal setting • Developing a joint vision and strategy based on suitable methods and tools for prototyping and transformative action