
Youth Mission at a glance
These educational resource packs have been created to help teachers build knowledge around food and food careers and improving children's soft skills needed for the future.

Food Mission and Food Careers educational resource packs
Capitalising on previous assets developed by EIT-Food partners (Food Science class, Eat Health to Keep Healthy, WeValueFood, EIT Food school network, MasterChef Junior, Games of food, Annual Food Agenda, Salvacomidas, FutureKitchen, CKIC Human capital, etc.) EIT Food invited educational experts to create coherent ready-to-use resource packs with and for teachers, available in multiple European languages. The two resource packs (downloadable, easy-to-use teachers’ handbooks and online supplementary materials) are developed for younger students from 9-14 (Food Mission) and teenagers from 15-18 (Food Careers). Aditionally, we organize Career Days, to raise awareness of the significance of food in modern life, and to demonstrate their relevance to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
2022
Both educational resource packs offer:
Freely accessible online materials in multiple languages
3 thematic modules including ready-to use, detailed lesson plans
Additional resources to be used in the lesson plans (videos, quizzes and others)
Accompanied by train the teachers’ workshops (in the piloting phase)
A challenge-based approach supporting teachers and students to explore the local food ecosystem and its opportunities
Supported skills:
Group work
Creativity
Interviewing
Research
Presentational skills
Brainstorming
Visioning
Critical thinking
The most important learning outcomes:
Systems thinking: Broadening thinking to identify aspects within food systems and understand its complexity and interrelations.
Systems mapping: Explore the variety of jobs within the food systems.
Sustainable lifestyle: Understanding sustainability, from farm to fork to disposal.
Healthy eating behaviour: Identify the characteristics of healthy eating patterns.