There are extremely well-documented reasons why immediate and decisive climate actions are essential to protect our planet. The European Commission has emphasized the importance of consumer behaviour as a key area: “As consumers, citizens have a powerful role to play and personal lifestyle choices can make a real difference.” (European Commission 2018). However, in our globalized food systems, consumers, and especially children are increasingly disconnected from understanding both how and where their food is produced, processed and prepared which can have detrimental effects on our environment (Dyg 2014) (Clausen & Fisker 2017). It is therefore essential to teach, empower and provide young generations with the necessary knowledge and competencies, as they will be the future consumers, whose skills, habits and choices will create and shape a sustainable future.These urgent climate and environmental challenges are what gives Learn4Earth its rationale. With a point of departure in the concept of ‘farm to fork’, Learn4Earth will develop innovative methodologies, approaches and hands-on activities to raise awareness in European Schools about the current climate change challenges and empower and provide pupils with key competencies within the fields of Climate, Environment and Food. Learn4Earth will initiate this innovation by operating from the new innovative learning concept, the Learn4Earth Learning Triangle - The growing, The Lab and The Meal.The overall objectives of Learn4Earth are:•To raise the overall awareness about environmental and climate change challenges for pupils in European schools based on interdisciplinary cooperation between schools, research institutions and practices•To develop key competencies in various sustainability-relevant subjects, i.e. develop green skills, strategies and methodologies, as well as future-oriented curricula that better meet the needs of pupils in everyday life•To support the testing of innovative practices to prepare children to become true factors of change, e.g. save resources, reduce energy use and waste, compensate carbon footprint emissions, opt for sustainable food and mobility choices, etc.•To enhance teachers’ education and continuous professional development by developing innovative interdisciplinary teaching approaches and promote and support competence-oriented teaching and learning within the fields of Climate, Environment and Food•To enable behavioural changes for children and their food preferences, consumption habits and lifestyles through education and trainingLearn4Earth is a transnational strategic partnership between 4 European primary and/or secondary schools, and 5 higher education institutions, organisations and food professional organisation from 5 European Countries. Learn4Earth will be led by Aalborg University, Denmark and will be joined by Arden School (DK), Primary School Franceta Preserna (SL), Fundació Escoles Garbí (E), Washingborough Academy (UK), University of Gastronomic Sciences (I), Health Education Trust (UK), Centre for Health and Development Murska Sobota (SL) and Taste Lab (DK).Based on interdisciplinary cooperation Learn4Earth will produce and assess 9 Learn4Earth Intellectual Outputs. Using Problem-Based Learning (PBL) and an interdisciplinary approach the Intellectual Outputs will develop, implement, test and evaluate a wide range of innovative hands-on activities. The results and experiences will be formulated into Teaching Manuals which will all be collected in the Learn4Earth Handbook. The Learn4Earth Handbook will ensure that the results can be disseminated and exploited by all target groups and stakeholders and thereby securing the overall impact and long-term benefits of the project.Learn4Earth will conduct 6 Learning/Teaching/Training Activities as an essential part of the project structure, giving partners and participating pupils the opportunity to work together, workshop, give feedback, evaluations and develop new innovative material, methods and approaches to be implemented and tested in the Intellectual Outputs. Learn4Earth will facilitate 6 Multiplier Events which will be essential activities to target stakeholders outside the project as well as the general public by promoting the Learn4Earth activities.Through interdisciplinary collaboration, Learn4Earth will develop and create new knowledge alliances to foster innovation in the fields of entrepreneurship, knowledge exchange and interdisciplinary teaching and learning. Learn4Earth will also promote inter-sectoral cooperation, supporting a more effective and innovative approach to education and increasing the innovation potential within the fields of Climate, Environment and Food. Finally, Learn4Earth aims to support and impact Environmental and climate goals by formulating essential recommendations for policymakers, contributing to the European Union’s structures and agendas regarding education in the fields of Climate, Environment and Food.

Learn4Health was created as a response to European policies, addressing challenges regarding health, nutrition and obesity prevention at institutional and individual level. Several European policies have identified the need for new, innovative reforms in relation to food, eating, nutrition and health of young people and in specific focusing on food practices of children and the curricular activities that can address these practices and topics in schools. To address such new and innovative reforms, the Learn4Health has worked with interdisciplinary networks and collaborations to make as much impact as possible, combining practice with scientific research. Learn4Health was created to develop skills, methods, collaborative approaches and to enhance food literacy and meet challenges of health, nutrition and obesity prevention through an interdisciplinary collaborative approach. The objective of Learn4Health is to employ children’s everyday food and health practices as learning and teaching contexts for developing problem-based activities, placing pupils in hands-on authentic food activities in everyday contexts. Further, development and assessment of instruments to meet the integration of food practices across different educational and food contexts and aiming at creating sustainability on food and nutrition reforms efforts by providing key professional development activities for teachers in the process of making them Learn4Health ambassadors.12 organisations have come together to develop, implement and evaluate new and innovative tools, methods and approaches to Hands-on Food Activities (HOFAs) with the goal of improving health and nutrition and prevent obesity for children now and in the long term. Leading the project is Aalborg University from Denmark, with partners from Arden Skole from Denmark, Fundacio per a la Universitat Oberta de Catalunyaand Garbí Pere Vergés from Spain, Centre for Health and Development Murska Sobota and Primary School Franceta Prešerna Črenšovci from Slovenia, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences and Karmelava Balys Buracas Gymnasium from Lithuania, Health Education Trust and Haworth Primary School from the United Kingdom, and Wageningen University & Research and De Hoge Hof from the Netherlands.It is important to mention that the lead and executive manager at AAU is not the same as the original applicant. To enhance the food literacy of children, Learn4Health has successfully developed, implemented and evaluated new and innovative objectives in relation to food, eating, nutrition and health. The activities combine practical and scientific knowledge and experience, placing the children in learning and teaching opportunities in everyday food contexts. This provides the teachers and pupils to work problem-based, providing real everyday food contexts and through co-creation, creating new possibilities, experiences and action competencies as for example farm-to-table approach through new skills, and methods. The pupils have also gained entrepreneurial skills, worked with gardening, kitchens, and other food related contexts, and the methods developed during the project period, have also included possibilities of combining Hands-on Food Activities with other school subjects. The project has successfully developed 8 Hands-on Food Activities. Further, the children have also been working with practitioners in the field of food and food systems, where local food professionals have provided the pupils with insight to i.e. farming. The combination of practice and research within everyday food contexts has proven to increase the food knowledge within the pupils, providing them with action competencies to act and react in a better, more sustainable and healthy way in regards to food and food surroundings now and in the future. To secure the sustainability of the Learn4Health project, all of the Hands-on Food Activities, the results and the assessments are collected in the HOFA Handbook which is publicly available on the project website. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the strengthening of teacher competencies has been an important objective in the Learn4Health project, as teachers has gained key professional competencies and knowledge, through the interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches. The Hands-on Food Activities have provided the pupils with great new knowledge within the theme of food, health and nutrition, but also provided teachers with new learning and teaching skills, methods and approaches, securing the sustainability of the project. Based on the evaluations received, we can conclude that the project had a significant impact on the participants. More than 10.000 people have been reached through the project, 4 scientific conference papers have been published targeting practitioners and the didactical society, and several large-scale dissemination activities were made for the general public.