Edible Cities is a 36-month Erasmus+ project that transforms vacant urban spaces into opportunities for green jobs and youth engagement, empowering young people—especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds—to shape sustainable urban food systems and access green careers.
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Edible Cities is a 36-month Erasmus+ project that focuses on transforming vacant urban spaces into opportunities for green jobs and youth engagement. The project aims to develop coaching techniques for youth leaders, increase the attractiveness of edible city jobs and youth-led green entrepreneurship, and expand opportunities in the urban green economy, especially for disadvantaged young people. It also seeks to give youth a stronger voice in shaping policies and practices related to edible cities and social inclusion.
The project is implemented by a consortium of eight partner organisations from Germany, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Austria, Belgium, Spain, and Denmark, working in the fields of youth participation, education, sustainability, and urban development. It aligns with key European frameworks such as the New European Bauhaus (NEB), GreenComp, and LifeComp. Together, the partners deliver key activities including the development of a youth leader competency model, a MOOC-based training programme, youth-led policy recommendations, and a dissemination campaign reaching a broad audience across Europe.
Through training, testing, and community-building activities, Edible Cities empowers young people to co-create sustainable urban food systems, gain recognised competences, and access pathways into green careers, while contributing to more sustainable and inclusive urban environments.
Every project we take on is an opportunity to expand our circle—bringing in new collaborators, exchanging ideas, and learning from the experiences and expertise of others. These partnerships are essential to our work and help us keep growing, questioning, and creating with fresh perspectives. We value collaboration not just for the outcome, but for the process: sharing knowledge, building trust, and working together toward common goals. Below, you can meet the people and organizations we’ve partnered with on this project. Feel free to explore their work—we’re proud to be in such great company.
Film and video artist, researcher, writer. Subjects of interest include community activation, social inclusion, sustainability, hyper-capitalism, individuality and precaritization, totalitarian systems of thought (cults), and coercive thought reform. My methodology includes ethnographic research, reflection, categorization of common patterns and the creation of what I call “poetic moments of visual exploration through fiction.”
Emily is currently pursuing her master’s in architecture in Vienna, Austria. In addition to her studies, she is especially interested in literature, philosophy and the visual arts and is looking for ways to combine these interests with her own work.
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