Contact
Rakel Halldórsdóttir
Specialist
rakel@matis.is
It is now time to start an interesting project at Matís, in collaboration with and funded by Matarauður Íslands at the Ministry of Industry and Innovation. The project aims to strengthen the knowledge and awareness of Icelandic children about local, Icelandic primary production and the importance of its maintenance and development.
The project is an implementation of the idea of a cooking project for school children, in line with the sustainability goals / global goals of the United Nations and the need for a general change of mindset regarding consumption, maintenance and the structure of primary production. The project aims to raise the awareness and interest of Icelandic children in better utilization of food products (reduction of food waste), utilization of local Icelandic products in cooking, wealth of ideas and innovation in cooking from traditional Icelandic ingredients.
The special Icelandic food traditions and origins of food have become unclear to children in many places, as children today have become accustomed to the food coming in packaging from stores. This applies to larger and smaller communities, where access to the primary production of the local community is generally deficient and consumption based on the utilization of natural products from wildlife is declining compared to previous generations.
Partners in addition to Matarauður Íslands are Sveinn Kjartansson, chef, Hinrik Carl Ellertsson, chef, and three primary schools in Skagafjörður as well as Norðlingaskóli in Reykjavík.