Food'In

The use food as a tool for intercultural exchange and inclusion has proven to be very effective over the years. The idea is gaining popularity in youth work and in other sectors but with the refugee crisis, the use of this medium has been taken to another level. Indeed, all over Europe refuge restaurants, or migrants’ food centres have been created under different forms: directly managed by migrants or run by an NGO or foundation, focused on the kitchen only or including social activities, focused on skill development or used as an entrepreneurship tool, etc.
The success of this medium all over Europe and the success of many of similar initiatives created via crowdfunding platforms shows the clear potential of using food as an entry point for the inclusion of migrants and refugees. On the other hand, despite this spread and the funding successes, the usage of culinary and food as a tool is still untapped. Each of these initiatives are done separately with a low level of communication between them and a lack of methodological base to develop activities.
Therefore, we believe that it will be extremely useful to gather several of these restaurants, centres and education specialists in order to develop methodological and practical tools for improve the impact of their activities.
In addition, our project intends to have two other main impacts:
- Be useful to launch a communication between organisations using food as a medium for inclusion, or willing to do so.
- Promote this form of social entrepreneurship towards youngsters, migrants and professionals