Sustainable Development Goals

Abstract/Objectives

The content describes a project led by Li Tianjian from Tsinghua University Regional Innovation Center that aims to establish a large food and farming education regional support system. The initiative includes projects focused on food and farming education within the region, aiming to connect various stakeholders such as university communities, startups, NGOs, and social enterprises. The goal is to design a service system that adds value for both consumers and producers by integrating food education into daily life and leisure, fostering understanding of regional agricultural practices and food safety policies. The project innovates by consolidating cross-sector resources to create a regional support system, establishing a research and development center, and promoting regional accreditation mechanisms to enhance food and farming education. Through various activities and initiatives, the project seeks to promote sustainable agricultural practices and food education in the region.

Results/Contributions

This project is led by Li Tianjian, acting director of the Tsinghua University Regional Innovation Center. In response to the development needs of food and farming education, our school has planned and implemented two major projects, "Large Hsinchu Food and Farm Education Regional Support System Project" and "Food and Farm Education Base and Support Network." Both projects focus on the region, connecting university communities, startups, NGOs, social enterprises, cultural and ecological workers, etc., to collaboratively design a service system that creates value for consumers and producers. Through practices such as "food education literacy, local production and consumption, experiential economy, and food and farm maps," we integrate food and farming education into consumers' "daily diet" and "lifestyle leisure," developing a lifestyle that connects land, community, and cultural history, gradually guiding consumers to understand and actively participate in regional agricultural and food safety policies. Our school's food and farming project has the following characteristics and innovations: 1. For the first time, the concept of regionality consolidates cross-sector resources, creating a regional support system for food and farming education, particularly deepening into cultural and ethnic levels, with important reference value for future regional food and farming education across the country. 2. Establish a regional research and development center to integrate existing and future food and farming education resources, teaching materials, and agriculture-related food and farming education information integration platform teaching resources in Greater Hsinchu, and develop food and farming teaching cases and activity plans with regional characteristics. 3. Establish the "Greater Hsinchu Regional Friendly Accreditation Mechanism," which includes "food" and "venues" to encourage the relevant "food" and "venue" entities to undergo accreditation (certification). 4. Take the lead in promoting food and farming education demonstration bases, market schools, etc., horizontally integrating food and farming resources within the region, also through resource integration, creating accessibility to the circular economy of upstream, midstream, and downstream in the base, shortening food and farming miles, and deepening food and farming education.

Keywords

Regional Support System for Food and Agricultural Education in Greater Hsinchu

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