Expected Impact & Targets

Deep, Long-Term Societal Change

SchoolMedDiet is designed to improve dietary habits and health outcomes among children and adolescents — helping to address rising childhood obesity and diet-related non-communicable diseases across the Mediterranean — while reviving traditional food knowledge and cultural identity through hands-on, intergenerational school activities.

Expected Impact

Our Headline Targets

+20%
Diet Adherence

Increase in Mediterranean Diet adherence among students across the four countries

1,000+
Users

Deployment of the AI Food Assistant and VR modules to over 1,000 students and educators

-20%
Food Waste

Reduction of food waste per school by 20%

+30%
Seasonal & Local

Increased use of seasonal and local products by 30%

x5
Policy Outputs

Four national policy briefs plus one cross-Mediterranean roadmap, co-created with public authorities

A Digital Toolkit

A comprehensive Toolkit to support replication and upscaling

A Knowledge Hub

A Mediterranean Living Lab Knowledge Hub for transnational knowledge exchange

Policy Alignment

Aligned With Europe’s Green & Health Agenda

The project contributes to the EU Farm to Fork Strategy, the European Green Deal and the Common Agricultural Policy, and advances the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2 (Zero Hunger), 3 (Good Health and Well-being) and 12 (Responsible Consumption and Production).

Meet the people behind the project

Discover the consortium of universities, research institutes and local organisations from Greece, Malta, Morocco and Tunisia working together to bring the Mediterranean Diet back to schools.

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