12 AND 13 MAY, BRUSSELS French and English partners are celebrating the end of their joint project, whose objective is to promote sustainable local food. Interpretation French / English Venue: East Poland House Avenue de Tervueren 48 1040 Brussels, Belgium Tuesday 12 May Economic development and local food Closure conference of the DEAL project 2pm Welcome – tea and coffee 2.30 Welcome speech 2.45pm Towards a new balance between a global food system and local food systems by Henri Rouillé D’Orfeuil 3.15pm Let's share the benefits of 3 years of co-operation ! Round table 1: How to give an impetus to a local food strategy ? Questions and answers on the following themes: - Local food as a tourism development tool - Buying local to support local agriculture - Local food as an economic, environmental and social development tool at city-scale. Contributors : New Forest District Council (GB), Terre de Lien Normandie (F), Plymouth City Council and the Soil Association (GB). 12 and 13 MAY, BRUSSELS Round table 2 : How to match offer and demand ? Questions and answers on the following themes: - Digital tools to help offer and demand meet : introduction and comparison of two tools : Agrilocal and The Matrix - Logistics platforms - Initiatives to organise direct contact between consumer and producer, ie. « meet the buyer », farm visits, etc. Contributors : Départements des Côtes d'Armor et du Calvados (F), Communauté Urbaine d'Alençon (F), New Forest District Council (GB). Round table 3 : How to raise the awareness about local produce and develop the market ? Questions and answers on the following themes: - Training of kitchen professionals (collective catering, businesses,etc). - Education and awareness raising to the general public Contributors : Départements des Côtes d'Armor, d'Ille et Vilaine et du Calvados (F), Communauté Urbaine d'Alençon (F), New Forest District Council (GB), Chambre des Métiers et de l'Artisanat des Côtes d'Armor (F), Plymouth Council(GB). 4.45pm How can the EU support the development of local food systems ? Recommendations from the DEAL partnership 5.30pm Buffet offered by the DEAL partnership to the participants DEAL partners will present the results of the project in an informal manner during the buffet. 7pm End Mardi 12 mai Développer l'économie par l'alimentation locale Conférence de clôture du projet européen DEAL 14.00 Accueil – thé et café 14.30 Mot d'accueil 12 and 13 MAY, BRUSSELS Venue : East Poland House Avenue de Tervueren 48 1040 Brussels, Belgium Discussions will be held in English Wednesday 13 May Co-operation in Europe on local food issues Technical meeting on EU co-operation project development The objective of the meeting is to present and discuss partnership project ideas on topics related to local food. The meeting is open to anyone in Europe who would like to get involved in a co-operation project on this topic. 9am Welcome 9.30 Introduction of the working session 9.45 Participants choose their workshops Suggested themes: - Food and tourism - Food and access to all to healthy and local food - Food and logistics - Food and education / communication / training - Food and agriculture In order to facilitate the organisation of the workshops, participants are asked to choose their preferred themes when they register. Project promoters can also submit project ideas to the organisers in advance, a project factsheet is available. 12.15 12.30 12.45 End End of the workshops Conclusions and perspectives Registration here Contact : Anne Rouault, Project manager Rouaultanne@cg22 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------What's in the DEAL ? DEAL is an English-French project funded by the EU through the cross-border programme “Interreg IVA France (Channel) – England”. The DEAL partnership is made up of 11 partners involved in promoting sustainable local food. DEAL partners implement local pilot actions to produce, sell, buy and eat local to foster the sustainable economic development of our communities.