Name
As Bean
website
country
Belgium
Goal
As Bean is an ASBL created by a group of young bioengineers and cooks determined to support fairer and more ecological food systems. Since 2019, we have been developing various projects with the aim of facilitating a food transition in the student world. In particular, we opened our La Turbean canteen , which is experimenting with a sustainable and affordable food offer on university campuses.We also organize conferences, workshops, and we create outreach tools to better understand food-related issues.
Main Topic
Sustainable food: from "farm to fork"; a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
All Topics
Sustainable food: from "farm to fork": a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system
Scale
- City and peri-urban
Actors
- Social enterprise (i.e. for-profit company, but has primary objective to achieve social and/or ecological benefits)
Main Activity
Developing and/or producing goods;
Activities
- Providing knowledge transfer / advisory / education services
- (Re-)selling goods and/or facilitating good exchanges
- Developing and/or producing goods
Source
This initiative was provided by the SGD consortium.
This initiative is self-reported and not identified by the SHARED GREEN DEAL Consortium
CONTACT
For further details please contact co-leads Dr Chris Foulds (chris.foulds@aru.ac.uk) and Dr Rosie Robison (rosie.robison@aru.ac.uk).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 101036640. The sole responsibility for the content of this website lies with the SHARED GREEN DEAL HAS project and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the European Union.