Young Impact Day 2024
Together against food waste: Young Impact Day connects Saanenland schools
Last Friday, the Young Impact Day 2024 brought together 120 pupils from public and private schools in the Saanenland. The focus was on the appreciative handling of food. In interactive workshops, the young people discovered creative and forward-looking ways of eating.
From mealworms to food waste muffins
The diverse learning units gave the participants exciting insights into sustainable nutrition concepts: At Swiss Insects, the students tasted spiced grasshoppers and chocolate-covered mealworms as protein sources of the future with astonishing openness.
In the workshop at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), the young people transformed bread and overripe fruit into delicious muffins and discovered food waste chips.
At Madame Frigo, the participants learned about the successful concept of food-sharing fridges and looked at the background to the issue of food waste.
Finally, Agro-Image provided direct insights into local agriculture. Not only seasonal topics such as the importance of crop rotation, but also the various labels and forms of agriculture were explored in a playful way.
Culinary delights were provided by the earlybeck bakery with a pioneering concept: new, tasty and crispy sourdough bread rolls are made from old bread. The accompanying chocolate sticks made from Fairtrade chocolate impressively demonstrated the potential of complete cocoa bean recycling.
Successful exchange in the fight against food waste
“The Young Impact Day showed how valuable cooperation between private and public schools is,” says project manager Chantal Reichenbach. “The young people got to know different aspects of food production and developed new perspectives on sustainable nutrition through a joint exchange.”
The idea behind Young Impact
Young Impact is a project initiated by Impact Gstaad with the aim of bringing the topic of sustainability closer to the younger generation and better understanding their concerns and problems. As the first cross-institutional project, Young Impact creates a unique meeting platform for pupils from public and private educational institutions. In addition to the public school, the J.F. Kennedy International School and the Institut Le Rosey are also participating in the Young Impact workshops. The project promotes dialog and interaction between students and teachers and enables an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability.