The Modern Grandma project aims to reduce food waste in the local community by raising awareness, promoting sustainable food practices and encouraging active participation from young people and local stakeholders. Through its activities, the project seeks to transform food waste from an overlooked issue into a shared community concern and a field of collective action.

A key objective of the project is to build knowledge around the causes, effects and possible solutions related to food waste. This will be achieved through both desk research and community-based research, allowing the team to produce educational content that reflects both broader trends and local realities in Veroia.

Another central objective is to promote dialogue and collaboration among different actors in the local food ecosystem, including households, restaurants, grocery stores, farmers, community organisations and citizens. The roundtable activity is designed to create space for exchange, reflection and the co-development of practical responses to the issue.

The project also aims to foster experiential learning through creative and participatory activities. The cooking competition based on leftover ingredients will encourage participants to explore sustainable cooking in a fun and accessible way, while showing that food waste prevention can be innovative, practical and community-driven.

An additional objective is to create useful and attractive outputs that remain available beyond the duration of the project. These include handbooks, presentations, newsletters, digital dissemination materials and the Modern Grandma Cookbook, which will combine recipes with food waste facts, tips and stories from the community.

Finally, Modern Grandma seeks to strengthen youth empowerment by involving young people in all phases of the project, from planning and research to event organisation, dissemination and evaluation. In this way, the project supports the development of soft skills, digital competences, teamwork, initiative and active citizenship.