Building inclusive, climate-resilient cities - HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-COMMUNITIES-04

Building Collective Capacity for Sustainable Urban Food Systems

This project aims to empower communities to co-create and implement sustainable, inclusive food systems in urban settings. By fostering community leadership and integrating systems thinking, capacity building, and intersectional perspectives, it strives to transform local food systems in alignment with the European Green Deal, as well as the Farm to Fork and Biodiversity Strategies.

Through participatory education and hands-on co-creation, we facilitate cross-sector collaboration to address interconnected challenges across food, health, climate, and social systems. The project supports the development of innovative urban governance models that promote sustainable practices, local resilience, and food sovereignty.

Rooted in systems thinking and the Inner Development Goals (IDGs), this initiative enhances leadership capacity to navigate the complexities of urban food system transformation. It empowers emerging leaders—particularly youth, women, and underrepresented communities—to co-lead sustainable food practices through collective learning, dialogue, and action in community gardens, living labs, and co-creation spaces.

By fostering capacity building and multistakeholder dialogues, the project ensures that solutions are inclusive, locally relevant, and empower all participants to take an active role in building climate-resilient, food-secure urban communities.