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project info
Start date: 1 September 2023
End date: 31 December 2025
funding
Fund: European Social Fund Plus (ESF+)
Total budget: 314 169,00 €
EU contribution: 188 501,00 € (60%)
programme
Programming period: 2021-2027
beneficiary
European Commission Topic
European Commission Topic

Prikka circulation 2023-2025

The project's five executor’s, Deaconia University of Applied Sciences, Helsinki Deaconess Foundation, Oulu Deaconess Foundation, the Joint Authority of the Oulu Parishes, the City of Oulu, common goal is to support the involvement and well-being of the most disadvantaged persons in the Prikka circulation project, thus preventing disadvantage and social exclusion. The project's activities reach those who are in the weakest position and enable them to do meaningful and easily accessible work in the logistics of food waste and the distributed food aid. The project's target group consists of the unemployed, people at risk of unemployment and those who are outside the labor market because of their weak labor market position. In addition, low-income people who need food assistance to support their everyday life, are also part of the target group, as well as, the people who do not have their own means to promote and support ones possibilities for participation. The project also reaches people with an immigrant background settling in Finland. Participation in the project enhances and supports individual educational and working life paths. The project brings together the donors of food waste and the operators who distribute food aid into a functioning entity. The project will take place in Oulu and in its neighboring municipalities. The project promotes the goal of reducing food loss and waste, which helps to curb climate change. The project increases communal and participatory food aid and developes innovative solutions for food aid. The centralized collection of food loss and its utilization for food aid creates a platform for different kind of participatory community action with diverse volunteer activities and employment opportunities. By means of the project operation, the food aid is even easier to attain, and various community meals and group activities support the well-being of the target group.

Flag of Finland  Pohjois-Pohjanmaa, Finland