The #Stop malbaratar menjar [Stop wasting food] challenge was aimed at raising awareness among children and young people about the importance of reducing or avoiding food waste, as well as to contribute to creating a family awareness that helps to adopt consumption based on the value of food, care and environmental responsibility. The challenge consisted of carrying out a "self-audit" of food waste in the school canteen, intending to make children aware of the amount of food that is thrown away in the school. The children carried out diagnostic actions (separating wasted food into different containers, weighing it and recording data) to raise awareness of the fact that food is a valuable resource that must be managed and consumed with the utmost care. This action is also part of the measures of LAW 3/2020, of 11 March, on the prevention of food losses and food waste. A total of 28 schools and 1120 children took part in the challenge.    

Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations, 1989) recognises the role of the media in disseminating information to children. It establishes the State's obligation to take measures to protect them from information and material injurious to their well-being. In this context, the collective action of this challenge consisted in creating posters with different messages about misleading advertising. In each educational or leisure centre, the children chose a representative image and uploaded it on social media. Together with the gymkhana and the collective action No m'ho empasso! [I don't swallow it!], this activity involved 78 educational centres and 40 educational leisure spaces, with some 18,000 participating children and youngsters.

Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations, 1989) recognises the role of the media in disseminating information to children. It establishes the State's obligation to take measures to protect them from information and material injurious to their well-being. In this context, the Gymkhana #Nom'hompasso [I don't swallow it] took place, aiming at reflecting on food advertising and how it can negatively affect our eating habits. The gymkhana proposed a series of playful tests to encourage critical thinking. Some of them were:

• Ball-swallowing: in this "human ball-swallowing" activity, the children had to collect various messages about misleading advertising and evaluate them.
• Lies to the ground: through a bowling game, the children were tasked with deciphering a hidden message about misleading advertising.
• Label catcher: the traditional "catch the flag" game served to raise children's awareness of the importance of fairer labelling.
• Re-benchmark yourself: the last activity consisted of an evaluation and vote on food consumption and advertising, after having worked on all the material and content of the other activities.

The food system is one of the main causes of the current environmental and social crisis. It is urgent that we change the way we produce, distribute, and consume food. As a result of this problem, the collective challenge #EmComprometo aimed to reflect on the food system and propose possible solutions to change it. This challenge was an invitation to people of all ages to express how they thought they could take action: consuming local products or reducing plastic and disposable packaging, food waste, or the consumption of ultra-processed food or animal protein. The challenge began in November 2022 and is still active. You can take part by visiting the Menja, Actua, Impacta [Eat, Act, Impact] exhibition in El Prat de Llobregat. So far, around 75 people have taken part. And you, do you want to commit yourself?

A children's participation project was carried out in schools and educational leisure spaces, in which children proposed recipes linked to healthy and sustainable food that they liked the most. A total of 400 schools took part. The recipes received were included in a recipe booklet you can consult here. The proposed recipes are easy, seasonal, healthy, sustainable and attractive to children.  

Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (United Nations, 1989) recognises the role of the media in disseminating information to children. It establishes the State's obligation to take measures to protect them from information and material injurious to their well-being. In this context, a two-day activity was held aiming at reflecting on food advertising oriented to children and young people. The participants collected the opinions and claims of children and, as a result, they wrote a manifesto. The document consisted of a section common to all the education centres where regulations on food advertising oriented to children and youngsters were demanded and a specific section in which the participants wrote their contributions.  The activity had visibility in social networks by means of the hashtag #Nomhoempasso. Together with the gymkhana and the reading of the manifesto No m'ho empasso! [I don't swallow it!], this activity involved 78 educational centres and 40 educational leisure spaces, with some 18,000 participating children and youngsters.

To celebrate the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, a collective challenge for families was held on 29 September 2022. It was proposed that they leave a comment on Fundesplai's Instagram account, specifically on a post against food waste. Twenty-one people took part in the challenge, leaving suggestions such as planning meals well, avoiding overbuying, making jams or smoothies with ripe fruit, or freezing food.  

The collective challenge #AixíMenjo [This is how I eat] sought to get children and young people to reflect on the future of the food system and its impact on the planet, as well as on the need to work together for a more sustainable model. Children, young people and families answered various questions about healthy and sustainable food, including "Do you think we can eat better?", "Do you think we should reduce the amount of animal-based food we eat?", "Do you think we will eat more healthily in the future? It was held on 7 May 2022 as part of the Mostra d'Alimentació Cooperativa i Solidària in El Prat de Llobregat and 210 children, young people and families took part.  

This challenge aimed at raising awareness of the impact of the waste we generate through food and at contributing to reducing it in our daily lives by eliminating unnecessary packaging and calling for us to be able to buy and consume food in its natural state. On 25 and 26 March, on the occasion of World Climate Day and climate change mitigation and adaptation, children and young people created denouncing art sculptures with plastic waste that they later exhibited through social networks, with the hashtag #AlNatural, in the school playground and, in the case of educational leisure spaces, in the street. In the previous weeks, children and young people took part in educational and playful activities in which they researched the waste we generate, learned how many years it can take for a piece of plastic to degrade in nature, learned how packaging is made and proposed everyday alternatives to this problem. The sculptures were later recovered and can be seen in the Menja, Actua, Impacta [Eat, Act, Impact] exhibition in El Prat de Llobregat. The challenge involved the participation of about 100 educational leisure spaces and schools and 20,000 children and young people.  

On the occasion of International Children's Rights Day, celebrated on 20 November 2021, Fundesplai proposed the #Dretalimentació20N challenge to schools, educational leisure spaces, families and children. The challenge had different objectives: to get children and young people to reflect on the effect of food on the health of people and the planet; to encourage healthy nutritional habits; to promote the values of respect for nature, care for people and citizen participation; and to raise awareness that all children in the world have the right to food. Children are the driving force for change; for this reason, various awareness-raising activities were carried out throughout the week, culminating in a comprehensive collective action on 20N. Prior awareness-raising activities consisted of debates on the importance of children's rights and celebrating 20N and the creation of a large interactive mural (physical or virtual) on which children and families wrote or drew a commitment to promote healthy and sustainable food. On 19 and 20 November, we organised a decentralised gymkhana in the territories of the Autonomous Community. The gymkhana contained a series of tests, including making a collage about the origin of the ingredients of some recipes, the relay game of simulating the transport of a pineapple, creating food with origami and completing the planetary health pyramid. The gymkhana culminated with a creative representation of a slogan related to healthy and sustainable food made by all participants. The activity was given visibility on social media (through the actions of families and educators). A total of 123 schools and 37 educational leisure spaces participated in the challenge, and 25,360 children and young people were mobilised. We want to thank all the schools and educational leisure spaces participating in this initiative. Thank you for being part of such a powerful educational community!