Cultivate project

20/08/2026

How many edible plants do you know? 🌿

You can find out through Let's Eat, a free print-and-play card game about discovering edible wild plants, sharing food memories and creating recipes with your neighbours.

The game includes 43 wild edible plant cards, food memory cards and shared cabinet cards.

Watch the tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04tylqIxOqg&list=PLm1gmt7eommjMOXgDjdBwE2LELQw0Hjah&index=1

Let’s Eat is a free print-and-play card game about discovering edib...

18/08/2026

Ever wondered where food gets shared in your city? 🔍 This short tutorial shows how to use the Food Sharing Map to find food sharing initiatives in more than 200 urban areas worldwide.

🔗 Explore the map: https://www.sharingsolutions.eu/food-sharing-map/

13/08/2026

The game 'Common Ground', part of Citizen Engagement Library, focuses on caring for a community garden 🤝🪴

The game invites players to explore teamwork, biodiversity, harvest, climate pressure, soil health, and the everyday challenges of caring for a community garden.

You can watch the tutorial here:

Common Ground is a free print-and-play cooperative board game about...

11/08/2026

Another game part of our Citizen Engagement Library is called 'Grandma is Coming!'. What's that about and how can it help increase social connection in food sharing? 🔍

The game invites children to work together to gather ingredients from a neighbourhood food forest and complete Grandma’s favourite healthy recipe before she reaches the end of the path.

Along the way, players learn about food forests, food sharing, composting, healthy eating, and the idea that food does not only come from the supermarket. 🌱

Watch the tutorial at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m21-g6ug3pU&list=PLm1gmt7eommjMOXgDjdBwE2LELQw0Hjah&index=3

Grandma is Coming! is a free print-and-play cooperative board game ...

06/08/2026

Would you like to know more about the Library of Citizen Engagement? 🔍

It is a resource our partners at Wageningen University & Research developed, gathering practical tools, resources and games designed to improve engagement and social participation in food-sharing activities.

Today we have a look at the game "The Future of Food Sharing", and at how you can play it. Players use Quest Cards, Tool Cards and optional Risk Cards to explore the real-life challenges food-sharing initiatives 🃏

Watch the tutorial to learn how to play 👉

The Future of Food Sharing Game is a free print-and-play collaborat...

03/08/2026

📍 Some urban areas on our map hold hundreds of food sharing initiatives, while others are still empty.

This gap is not always an absence of food sharing: often it is an absence of visibility.

🗺️ The CULTIVATE Food Sharing Map has identified over 8,000 initiatives across more than 200 urban areas: community gardens, shared meals, surplus redistribution, from Barcelona, Utrecht and Milan to smaller cities like Cork.

Watch our short video to see how the Map works, and explore the tool at: https://www.sharingsolutions.eu/food-sharing-map/

If you see missing information, you can write to the team at [email protected] ✉️

30/07/2026

💻 New video tutorial! This time we delve into the Food Sharing Map, an interactive tool developed by researchers at Trinity College Dublin that helps you discover food sharing initiatives across more than 200 cities worldwide.

💡 In a few minutes it shows how to search by city, filter results by activity and mode of sharing, and explore organisations directly on the map, with links to their websites and social channels.

Learn more and watch the tutorial at: https://cultivate-project.eu/news/new-video-tutorial-of-the-compass-tool-unpacked-series-shows-how-to-use-the-food-sharing-map/

Discover how to navigate the Food Sharing Map and connect with food sharing initiatives in your area and beyond

29/07/2026

We are coming to Brussels for our final event!

On 19 November 2026 we will present and celebrate the Food Sharing Compass, our online platform that gathers five complementary tools to help communities, municipalities, researchers and citizens navigate the world of food sharing.

There will be a full day of panel discussions and hands-on workshops led by the people who built and tested the tools, so you can explore how they work in your own context.

Register for the event here: https://cultivate-project.eu/events/helping-food-sharing-thrive-introducing-the-cultivate-food-sharing-compass-platform/

07/07/2026

What does food sharing look like across Europe? 🌍 With our new Food Sharing Map, you can now see it in one place.

The tool brings together over 8,000 food-sharing initiatives from more than 200 urban areas, updated in real time. You can explore who is sharing food, what is being shared, and how, from community gardens and shared meals to food rescue and gift-based exchange.

Whether you are a curious citizen, an organisation, a policymaker or a researcher, learn more and explore it: https://cultivate-project.eu/news/european-project-cultivate-launches-a-new-tool-for-discovering-food-sharing-initiatives-across-hundreds-of-cities/

23/06/2026

How can food sharing initiatives become easier to find, support, and scale? 📊

In the fifth and final episode of the CULTIVATE podcast, we discover the CULTIVATE Food Sharing Compass: a set of tools created to make food sharing more visible, connected, and impactful across Europe.

Listen to the new episode on the ICONS Innovation Strategies Spotify channel and discover how the Food Sharing Compass can support fairer and more sustainable food systems.