Project

Project idea

StratKIT aims at making public procurement and catering services more sustainable in the Baltic Sea Region. Therefore, it

identifies solutions to the challenges;
develops and tests regional strategies;
inspires and motivates procurers and caterers to use their opportunities.

Project funding and Partners

In the project on Innovative Strategies for Public Catering: Sustainability Toolkit across Baltic Sea Region (StratKIT) 13 project partners and 10 associated organisations from administrations, catering services, research and consulting work on these aims. Project coordinator is the University of Helsinki.

The follow-up project StratKIT+ includes 14 project partners and 11 associated organisations. Remaining partners from StratKit are the University of Helsinki (coordinator), Stockholm Environment Institute Tallin Center, agrathaer GmbH, IFAU Institute for Food Studies & Agro industrial Development and City of Ribnik. New project partners are the University of Gothenburg, Södertälje municipality cont., Riga City Council, Centre for Public Communication of the City of Warsaw, Lazdijai district municipality adminitration (Lithuania), Development Centre of Voru County (Estonia) and Baltic Restaurants Estonia AS.

Project partners from StratKIT:

The follow-up project StratKIT+ is funded through the Interreg-BSR programm of the EU.

Total Budget: 499,994,53 euros

Project Duration: 1/10/22 - 31/03/24

StratKIT was funded through the Interreg-BSR program of the EU with additional funding by the Russian Federation.

Total Budget: 2,046,588.25 euros

Project Duration: 1/1/2019 – 31/12/2021

Project approach

StratKIT initiates the construction of sustainability pathways across the Baltic Sea Region Public Procurement & Catering Services by:

Mapping the current situation and collecting both the challenges and the best practices; thereby a big picture emerges about the ongoing developments.
Showing how strategic progress can be made towards increased sustainability. These models include international knowledge and mainly base on innovative approaches by BSR professionals, be they public administrators, procurers or caterers.
Bringing together the professionals so that they can network and become animated about sustainable developments on the sector.
Tuning the results into the BSR Sustainability Toolkit, which will be an easy-to-follow and bottom-up guidance for sector’s professionalsto speed up local applications for sustainability.

These achievements will harmonize progress, bring BSR countries closer each other, have a positive impact on societal appreciation of public services and give a strong message in the market to boost the availability of sustainable goods and services, and among customers in BSR to ask for them.

Outputs and materials

StratKIT main outputs are a network of stakeholders at national and BSR level; a best practices living repository, and direct access to the interactive Sustainability Toolkit.

Downloads

Principles and recommendations

Tools

StratKIT online conference - 24.11.2020

Sustainability in Public Procurement and Catering Services: Challenges and solutions for rethinking organics, GPP and food waste

Conference agenda pdf

Conference videos

Introduction video
Session 1: Introducing Organic Food to Public Institutions video
Session 2: Green Public Procurement and Sustainable Diet video
Session 3. Food Waste: how to measure and reduce video
Final conclusions: video

Final StratKIT conference - 13.10.2021

Sustainable Public Meals in the Baltic Sea Region and beyond

Presentations (pdf):

Conference platform with poster exhibition: link (available until 11.11.2021)