Fashion Week Spring 2018 is organized in collaboration with CeKaDe (Center for the Culture of Dialogue) and Food Network, and its central theme is food. Researchers, politicians, business representatives, philosophers, architects and activists will – for the first time in Croatia – have chance to thoroughly discuss the developing a food network with the future possibility of universal access to food. The focus are the problem of food waste and the issue of upgrading the system of food donations, as well as reinventions and innovative solutions to food production in the urban environment. The program is developed in close collaboration with the “Food and Community” project, financed by European Social Fund and Office for Cooperation with NGOs of the Government of Republic of Croatia, which connects research on University of Rijeka with the efforts to establish the food network in Croatia.
Organizers of Fashion Week Spring 2018 – Food: Policy & Innovation are Rijeka2020 – European Capital of Culture, CeKaDe, Food Network and Center for Advanced Studies South East Europe.
Fashion Week is the seasonal showcase of Sweet&Salt flagship, which is part of the Rijeka – European Capital of Culture 2020 project, presenting the themes, concepts, works, plans and cooperative developments connected to the understanding and designing the future city through the context of Rijeka and the S&S territory.
Food: Policy & Innovation
Date and Venue: June 8 – 9, 2018
DeltaLab, Delta 5 (Ivex building), Rijeka
Day 1
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Opening Ceremony
Snježana Prijić-Samaržija, Rector of the University of Rijeka
9:15-9:45 Food and Community – Presentation of the Project
Participants: Ana Bobinac, Project manager
Nenad Vretenar, Faculty of Economics, University of Rijeka
Nebojša Zelič, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-12:00 Food Policies: European Futures
Participants: Tomislav Tolušić, Minister of Agriculture and vice president of the Government of Republic of Croatia
Biljana Borzan, European Parliament Rapporteur on Food Waste
Mladen Iličković, Journalist, HRT (Croatian National Television)
Dražen Šimleša, ZMAG (Green network of activist groups)
Moderator: Zoran Grozdanov
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Donor Perspectives
Participants: Ivana Džakula, Director of Business Support Sector, Konzum
Kristina Klarić Rubčić, Head of Corporate Communications, Dukat
Vladimir Margeta, President of the Association of Croatian family farms
Marina Tomić, The Croatian Institute for Corporate Social Responsibility
Moderator: Vjekoslav Đaić
14:00-14:15 Break
14:15-16:30 How Much Food is Being Wasted?
Participants: Marija Batinić, Ministry of Agriculture, Directorate of Food and Phytosanitary Policy
Branka Ilakovac, Centre for the Prevention of Food Waste
Urša Zgojznik, Ecologists without Borders, Slovenia
Ana Marija Cuglin
Moderator: Ana Bobinac
Day 2
8:00-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:30 Innovation Fair with Coffee
Participants: Sanja Bijonda, President of Humanitarian Organization Portal dobrote
Food Not Bombs,
Food Network Croatia
Moderator: Marko Košak
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:45 The Most Innovative Solution
Food Cloud, Ireland
COO Emma Walsh
11:45-12:00 Break
12:00-14:00 Food: Reinvention
Participants: Damian Sobol Turina – Rijeka Port Areas & Innovative Urban Food Production
Ante Toni Debelić, Growcity
Ida Križaj Leko – Food in the City
14:00 Lunch
