Building Socially Responsible Institutions Summit

The 'Building Socially Responsible Institutions' Summit was one of four Summits at the EAUC-Scotland Conference 2017. This Summit was chaired by Aiofe Behan from Soil Association Scotland, and consisted of three presentations and a workshop. The Summit was sponsored by the Professional Cost Management Group (PCMG). You can find the resources from the different presentations linked below.

• Social Responsibility and Human Rights - Beyond CSR - Michelle Brown, University of Edinburgh
• How a community garden can benefit students and the wider community - Severine Monvoisin, Edinburgh College
• Example from the private Sector - Interface: Turning Waste into Opportunity - Louise Swift, Interface 

The Summit workshop asked attendees what 'good' food products are, in this case, a 'good carrot' and what the barriers are to getting them into institutions and how to overcome those.

Thoughts and considerations included:

• Eating is a political act
• Culture around eating is important
• A good carrot is organic, local, unprocessed, not judged by its looks, delicious, chemical-free, fairly-priced,  responsibly-grown, consumed - not discarded, seasonal, not over-packaged
• Barriers to always getting 'good carrots': short-term costs, convenience and availability, customers' interest, weather patterns and seasonality, lack of control as many catering facilities are outsourced, difficulties in changing contracts, storage, demand

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EAUC-Scotland held their fourth conference on the 22nd February 2017 at the University of Stirling. Find all resources from the Conference using the tag EAUCS2017, and find out more about the event on the Conference webpages.