"<< Background >>Have you ever thought that the idea “what we eat matters”? ""The way we eat has profound consequences for our own health, but also for the environment and our cultural identity. The food that’s good for us is also good for the environment and the community. Slow Food believes food quality should not be defined only by taste but according to three broad principles: quality food should be good, clean and fair. “Good” food entails food that is healthy, tasty and diverse; “Clean” refers to food produced in an environmentally sustainable way and local, whilst “fair” food refers to food produced in a way that reaps fair earnings for farmers as well as in the fairest way possible towards animal welfare.Therefore, our everyday food choices have an impact on our health, but also on the climate and on the culture. Choosing more vegetables and legumes and reducing consumption of meat and industrial foods can lead to a considerable reduction of CO2 emissions and can save the planet. Along with varying impacts on human health, different foods also have differing impacts on the environment. For example; the production of animal-based foods tends to have higher greenhouse gas emissions than producing plant-based foods—and dairy and red meat (especially beef) stand out for their disproportionate impact. Methane gas, which is stated to be 23 times stronger than carbon dioxide, is considered one of the most important elements of global warming. In the calculation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2017, it was stated that the share of farm animals in methane gas emission was 24%. Considering that a cow emits 100 to 200 liters of methane a day, we can better understand the extent to which red meat consumption is harmful to the environment.Slow Food movement aims to preserve cultural cuisine and in so doing to preserve the food plants and seeds, domestic animals and farming within an Eco region. The slow food movement has become a social and political movement capable of resisting the dehumanizing effects of large-scale, commercial food production and the fast food industry. People who are detached from their lands and forced to migrate cannot preserve their food culture in the new countries they migrate and start to lose. This causes many eating habits to disappear and somehow assimilate over time. The loss of food culture, which is one of the most important parts of folk culture, causes other cultural erosion to begin. In addition, the industrialized society structure eliminates the food culture with fast food, while also eliminating the communication and sharing of people during eating. The decrease in sharing and communication between people naturally harms the cultural interaction.The 3 main objectives of our project are to be aware of the negative effects of our eating and drinking habits on human health, the environment we live in and our existing cultural heritage and to produce solutions to prevent these negativities. For all these reasons, our project is a project that aims to combat environmental and climate change directly, aims to reduce domestic wastes, reduce harmful gases such as methane and carbon dioxide gas in nature, support organic agriculture practices, and want cultures to preserve their eating and drinking traditions and support this.<< Objectives >>Have you ever thought that the idea “what we eat matters”? ""The way we eat has profound consequences for our own health, but also for the environment and our cultural identity. The food that’s good for us is also good for the environment and the community. Therefore, our everyday food choices have an impact on our health, but also on the climate and on the culture.In our project we are going to;In terms of health,•Identify the damages of the Fast Food culture to human health and the environment and search ways to minimize these damages, create awareness in this field, •Clarify the effect of genetically modified foods on human health and the redefinition of alternative nutrition ways in this regard.•Explore the role of nutrition on human health, examine diseases that occur as a result of unhealthy nutrition and search methods of protection from these diseases,•Provide the importance of probiotic nutrition and the introduce foods that strengthen our immune system, and solutions will be put forward for the Slow Food movement's nutritional habits that threaten human health. In addition, it will be ensured that school canteens and cafeterias are organized in accordance with the ""Slow Food"" philosophy and the nutrition menus are updated in accordance with this philosophy.In terms of nature and climate change, •Raise awareness about the environmental hazards of excessive meat consumption and the effects on climate change.•Examine the environmental damage of wild fishing and to find solutions to prevent new environmental problems that will come with the degradation of the aquatic ecosystem.•Investigate the environmental damage of domestic wastes created by fast consumption culture and to seek solutions for the safest disposal of these wastes.•Also, with the Slow Food movement, we are going to search the benefits of on-site production, organic agriculture and balanced nutrition to our planet, practice gardens are going to be designed where students can practice organic agriculture.In terms of culture, •Explore the changing effects of our eating habits on family and society.•Search agricultural migration and the changing cultural structures of immigrants as a result and find solutions to prevent this cultural erosion.•Investigate how the Slow Food movement unites our food and cultural values, to present solutions for the preservation of our cultural food heritage, and create a food book that has sunk into oblivion where students can present examples from their own cultural cuisine.<< Implementation >>There will be 5 LTTA’s in the project; also there will be 3 outcomes and 1 multiplier event in the project. The main factor underlying the project is to conduct researches on the effects of our eating and drinking habits and our food consumption on human health, our environment and our cultural heritage, to raise awareness in the working groups of the project partners and to prevent negativities that threaten both our health, our environment and our cultural heritage with the slow food culture or to produce concrete outputs by working solution-oriented against these negativities.In this context, a partnership formed by 4 NGO 2 high schools and a university is working to ensure the human health, protection of the environment and cultural heritage of all these participating groups. These studies, which are mostly carried out by the participating groups locally or nationally, will be carried to an international dimension with the project, and the results to be achieved with this project will reach more people and become widespread. Due to the nature of the project, we will be able to look at all these issues that we will deal with in a scientific and social perspective and act in a solution-oriented manner.With the workshops that will be held in the high schools, which are our project partners, the incredible effect of healthy nutrition on the human body will be better understood by the students, and the effect of nutrition on success will be demonstrated concretely with the survey studies to be conducted. The nutrition menus planned to be put into practice at the end of the project in these schools will provide a healthier diet for students and teachers together with their families. In addition, thanks to the experiences that students studying in these schools will gain from the project results, not only the effects of nutritional habits and food consumption on human health in their future lives; They will also better understand their impact on our environment and cultural heritage. The point is, the organic farming gardens that we will put into practice in these schools will enable students to gain first-hand experience of growing their own vegetables and fruits and will enable these students to grow their own food materials even in their own living spaces in the future.NGOs, another pillar of our partnership, will enable them to more easily explain the vital importance of food consumption and production on our planet to the local people in their work areas. Awareness will be raised on issues such as the harm of GMO foods to human health and the environment, the negative effects of wild irrigation and improper farming practices on our planet, the damage caused by excessive red meat consumption, how wild fishery destroys the ecosystem in our seas, open-air meetings to be held, exemplary good agriculture scientific reports to be prepared will contribute to NGOs reaching larger masses.Likewise, with the addressing of social and social problems such as cultural change caused by industrialization and increasing migration, and the disappearance of our eating and drinking traditions, the instinct of protecting their own cultural heritage will be re-established in the social environment and families of all participants. The traditional dishes that will emerge as a result of the project, our cultural dishes that are about to disappear and the traditions of the migrating societies with the intense immigration will turn into an intellectual output and become the wealth of the European Union.Finally, our partner university will have access to opportunities such as observing the social and daily effects of academic studies on nutrition and human health, obtaining data and conducting new research. Again, with this project, the way for new scientific studies will be paved and the fields of study of related faculties will expand.<< Results >>During the project and after the finalization of the project, an awareness of the positive and negative effects of food consumption and eating habits will be created among the target audience of all participants (students, teachers, local people, academicians and local authorities). The negative effects of the fast food culture that emerges in industrial societies on human health, the environment and our cultural heritage, on the groups in the target audience of the project, will allow these individuals or groups to reconsider their eating habits, to become a conscious consumer in food consumption, They will contribute to their participation in production processes (cultivation gardens, small agricultural enterprises, organic farming practices), consume foods that can protect their own health, and take care to protect our eating habits that are part of cultural heritage.If we look at it from a more specific window;• Awareness will be created in our participants about the harmful effects of fast food culture on human health and the environment. Workshops, field visits will be held and good practices will be examined in order to minimize this damage.• Healthy nutrition menus will be created and implemented in the partner schools that contain solutions for the nutritional habits that threaten human health and the environment of the Slow Food movement (Nutrition menus will also be prepared as a mobile application and made available globally).• In the regions where the project will be implemented, especially small producers dealing with organic agriculture will be supported by NGOs (with advertisements and promotional brochures) and local people will be encouraged to buy from these producers.• A report that will raise awareness about GMO products will be prepared by the Food Institute, which is our project partner, and this report will be shared with the local people by our stakeholders in the project, sent to the educational institutions in the regions where the project is implemented and forwarded to the European Union Commission.• A public opinion will be created that will enable the local and central authorities of the participating countries and the relevant institutions of the European Union to conduct an inventory study that will enable consumers to be informed about the growing conditions, packaging processes and logistics of the food products purchased (by launching campaigns on social media)• We will engage in educational activities against GMO products, industrialized agriculture and wild irrigation in the society we live in (Cinema and documentary film shows, printing posters and brochures, creating news in local and national press, organizing outdoor meetings, opening stands at central points, presentations to students in schools. make)• In order to protect our cultural heritage, which is in danger of extinction as our eating habits change, a cookbook containing traditional food recipes will be published in the European Union, and there will be a section in this book also includes traditional dishes, if any, food music and table settings of immigrant groups living in the European Union. • A "" Digital Photo Book"" will be created in order to explain the negative effects of our eating and drinking habits on our environment in the fastest way possible, to reach large masses and to raise awareness, and to deliver informative videos and animations on YouTube with the QR code application.• Immigrants who are affected by immigration caused by industrialization will be supported through NGOs in order to keep their cultural heritage alive, and a meal organization will be organized in each participating country where the immigrants living in that region can promote their local food and traditional table habits during LTTA activities."