With the publication of to the 2026 Social Package including the EU Anti-Poverty Strategy and Child Guarantee, the Healthy Wave consortium welcomes these initiatives. Taken together, these initiatives demonstrate an increasing recognition that child poverty and social exclusion cannot be addressed through fragmented or short-term measures. Instead, they require integrated support systems, coordinated governance, prevention-focused policies, and sustained investment in child

The Healthy Wave project together with the leading network of Eurocities have the pleasure to invite you to a one day event entitled "How to improve the school food environment and equal opportunities for children?" that will take place in the WTC Rotterdam building in Rotterdam on the 5th of November 2026. ​ Implementoring Healthy Meal for all (HealthyWave) aims to contribute to the implementation of the European Child Guarantee to ensure effective and free access to at leas

The Healthy Wave Toolkit is a hands‑on resource designed to help cities and their partners create healthier, more sustainable school meal systems. It brings together evidence, tools, and real‑world lessons to support actors who want to shift from fragmented initiatives to a coordinated, system‑wide approach. At its core, the toolkit helps stakeholders understand how school food environments function, where leverage points for change exist, and which interventions can generate

Introduction What factors contribute or counteract the success of providing healthy school lunches for children in Europe? Are these factors related to each other and if so, how do they interact? These were all questions that came up in our Healthy Wave project. Researchers from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, completed a study to answer these questions, with the help from our consortium partners, who all brought invaluable experience and expertise .

On March 12th, 2026, classrooms, canteens, and kitchens across Europe came alive for International School Meals Day - a global moment to recognize the role that school meals play in children’s lives, far beyond what ends up on the plate. For the Implementoring Healthy Meal for all (HealthyWave) project, the day was a chance to put our shared mission into practice:ensuring every child has access to at least one healthy, sustainable, and inclusive meal each school day, in line

In order to ensure up-to-date and consistent knowledge on the role of sweeteners in children’s nutrition, from November 2025 to January 2026 the Riga Municipality organised five seminars attended by nurses from 76 municipal schools and pre-school educational institutions in Riga. The seminar topic – “Sweeteners in Children’s Diet” – was aimed at developing an in-depth understanding of the role of sugar and sweeteners in children’s nutrition, their impact on health, as well as

Exactly one year after we were welcomed to Almada by our Portuguese partners, it was time for us at GAL Someș-Nadăș to return the favour....

On 7 May 2025, the Education, Culture and Sport Department of Riga Local Government hosted a partner meeting of the Erasmus+ project...

In a time where public health challenges are becoming more and more complex, Healthy Waves stands as an locally initiated attempt of...

Based on the criteria of the Whole School Food Approach (WSFA) Why are we looking for good practices? The European Healthy Wave project...

Romania September 4-6, 2024 Representatives from Cluj-Napoca (mentor city) and Riga (mentee city) met for the study visit in...

Obs Delfshaven Participates in the Healthy Wave Project. The primary school from Rotterdam has been assigned Milan as a mentor city. As...

A Collaborative Study Visit Between Gothenburg and Varna In early November 2024, Gothenburg, Sweden, and Varna, Bulgaria, came...

The whole Healthy Wave consortium gathered in Göteborgs stad for the mid-term meeting of the project on Wednesday 26th March. After the...

In Europe, children in various countries already receive a healthy lunch at school and this is also regulated nationally. In the...

The Whole School Food Approach (WSFA) is a method for developing a healthy and sustainable food culture in and around schools. The goal...

Where to start? That was my first thought when I started to write this editorial, let’s make it personal is my idea. At the start, and...

Since December 2023, the City of Rotterdam, Erasmus MC, and a the local primary school, OBS Delfshaven, have been part of the European...

As part of the ERASMUS+ - Healthy Wav project, a study visit to the Anselmo de Andrade Cluster, in Almada, Portugal, took place between...

January, often a quiet month, was anything but an eventful in Cluj-Napoca this year. On January 22-23, 2024, at the beautiful...