We are excited to introduce The Kitchen Adventure app. One of the teams of FOODITY innovators we selected in our Open Call #1, aimed at enhancing innovative data-driven solutions for food and nutrition respectful of users’ personal data sovereignty. Their goal is to encourage behaviour change and improve healthy and sustainable nutrition through a groundbreaking digital app.
The Kitchen Adventure app empowers citizens to make healthier food choices and create more sustainable systems. It is made up of two organisations: Mayavi 3.0 Kft – Climate Smart Elephant and Stichting International Parents Alliance, in which five diverse and multidisciplinary professionals are involved: Viktoria Soós, Géza Soós, and László Jaczenkó, from Climate Smart Elephant and Luca Janka Laszlo and Eszter Salamon from Stichting IPA (Parents International).
We have spoken with two of its founders, Viktoria Soós and Géza Soós from Climate Smart Elephant, to delve into their inspiring journey, exploring the vision behind their innovation and the impact it’s poised to make in creating healthier, more sustainable food systems.
"Our solution incorporates new technologies, like AI, but respecting data privacy, so we try to keep a very secure and usable product. With the help of FOODITY, we will be able to make a really good solution."
"We are relying on professional chefs as partners to put together selected and tasty recipes, and teach the necessary skills to be able to cook in a healthy manner. See you in the kitchen!"
The organisations behind The Kitchen Adventure app
Mayavi 3.0 Kft – Climate Smart Elephant (CSE)
CSE is a sustainability communication and education agency based in Hungary that has been working on sustainability topics for more than eight years, with international organizations such as Climate-KIC, LIFE, URBACT and EIT Food and is currently leading the communications for the EIT Food’s FoodEducators program.
CSE focuses on social innovation and community-based behavior change interventions around food, involving online plant-based cooking interventions and plant-based career days. It has run behavior change research and several teachers trainings revolving around systems innovation, sustainability and food education.
Through these initiatives CSE can rely on a strong ecosystem of food actors, including plant-based chefs, food policy analysts, food educators (teachers and school heads) and plant-based restaurant managers.
Besides the sustainability arena, CSE has 15+ years of experience in business and software development, including a comprehensive online integrated CMS/CRM/Autoresponder service.
Stichting International Parents Alliance
Stichting IPA (Parents International) is an independent research, training and advocacy organization based in the Netherlands. It’s mission is supporting parents around the world to become game-changers by helping their children to grow up happy and healthy 21st century citizens.
The foundation is working with experienced parents’ representatives (active and formal) and professionals, including teachers, social workers, researchers, psychologists, teacher trainers, economists, students, policy makers, youth workers, etc. who are interested in supporting parents, in a global parents’ alliance that works for the best interest and well-being of children all over the world.
IPA has members from 27 European countries, including national Parents’ Associations, Organisations working with parents and individuals.
The Kitchen Adventure app team is now part of our 12-month €2 million Pilot Development Programme and is receiving funding and support (expert mentoring, group coaching, and training on relevant technical, business, and legal issues) to develop their solution.
Stay tuned for the next stories of our FOODITY innovators and, if you are interested in joining our journey towards improving food systems, apply to our Open Call #2 by 10 July 2024!