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What is the problem/issue you are trying to address?

Food condition of elderly inhabitants of Cadzand village, loneliness, whish of touristic entrepreneurs to provide services year round.

Pilot aim

What is it and how did you arrive at it?

Improve the quality of food consumed by the elderly in Cadzand village while at the same time providing local businesses with new opportunity’s, to also help to overcome the strong seasonal variations that restaurants have to grapple with and using the regional strategy food Zeeland as a food region.

Stakeholders on your pilot

People and organisations represented, number of stakeholder meetings and total number of people at each stakeholder meeting.

Interviewing a lot of stakeholders separately: inhabitants, entrepreneurs, tourists (logbook).

We invest in contacts with the village council of Cadzand and the local social club for elderly people (by several conversation and by visiting local activities and events for local elderly like an event social music event for specific elderly people of Cadzand on 1 September 2017
We took part in several regional and provincial meetings about health and tourism (Contacta, DVR Kick off etcera).
We organized a meeting with inhabitants of Cadzand and Retranchement about living active and independent longer.
On Provincial level Impuls participates in a core group concerning healthy province Zeeland. The participation strengthens the support for the project SAIL and imbedding in local structures and existing projects.
We dispersed a questionnaire to elderly inhabitants from the age 55+ to gather data about the current situation on movements/ sports/ activities/ nutrition/ wellbeing and their social network
In July 2017 GGD Zeeland and Impuls interviewed several tourists of Cadzand-Bad and asked them about their wishes in relation to current products and services and their wishes for the future.
Organisation lunch for elderly inhabitants on 20 September 2017 talking about three issues: nutrition, movement & sport, Loneliness & wellbeing (11 inhabitants).

Organisation stakeholders meeting on 24 October 2017, collecting ideas for the pilots based on the collected needs of inhabitants, tourists and second residents (33 participants).
To get more insight in the developments within the food sector on regional and cross border we visited a couple of organizations specialized within Food sector:

- Community garden in Groede where local people/restaurant owners can buy a subscription to harvest their fresh vegetables.
- Belgium university which has a research group on the topic elderly and nutrition.
- Entrepreneur in Cadzand-Bad who has an idea for a mobile food kiosk in combination with a dune garden.
- Food estate agent of the province.
- Municipality officials of the community of Sluis about the opportunities of the Food region Sluis.

Pilot beneficiaries

Who will benefit from this pilot? What is the goal that you are trying to achieve with this pilot?

Local elderly inhabitants of Cadzand village.
Lonely elderly inhabitants of Cadzand village.
Local entrepreneurs (Cadzand village/Cadzand-Bad)
Elderly second residents and visitors (Cadzand)

The goal is to develop new business or service models that contribute to active and healthy ageing as well as the local economy

Ideas generated

What ideas were generated from your stakeholder meetings?

We collected a list of 16 clusters of ideas during the stakeholders meeting. Below you find a summery of the clusters. Ideas Food Chain Cadzand.

1. Organisation of small events/ happenings (f.e. food festival or picknick)

2. Realisation connecting ‘Experience’-path between Cadzand village and Cadzand-Bad

3. Using the dune-garden with local vegetables and herbs

4. Fresh food market with local products

5. Health tourism

6. Mobile Food/drink kiosk

7. Eat (and Cook) together

8. Shopping for daily living in relation to mobility

9. Social agent to connect people

10. Socialisation by movement

11. Lecture on local wisdom for young and elderly people

12. Using the opportunities of the village house Cadzand

13. Increasing digital skills of elderly people

14. Linking elderly people to young ones

15. Linking elderly people to tourists/ visitors

16. Deploy elderly people in the touristic sector for staff shortage

Values for selection

Based on the information collected at the stakeholders meetings and other interviews or conversations held in the location, what are important underlying values for your project? Such as valuing the opinions of your users or needing your project to be cost neutral at this stage for some of your partners?

We have a list of values we collected during our interviews and meetings:

Safety (not going out when its dark outside)
Social Safety
Independence (doing what you want)
Social network
Meet people and be together (eating together)
Cosiness (being together and doing things together)
Freedom (planning your own daily activities)
[ Be active (mainly for the younger < 70 years)]

Creativity
Traditional/ conservative (little readiness to change)
Sobriety
Difficulty asking for help
Livibility dorp Cadzand (hardly any services and facilities available to meet eachother)
Fellow humanity (looking after each other)
Involvement
Connection with your roots

Acceptability

How did the project team, other organisations and your participants react to the project idea? What is the level of involvement/commitment from each group at this stage? Evidence could include: participant observation at initial project meetings and the reflections of the project group.

Demand

What is the demand for your project? How do you know this, what information did you use to help you?

Implementation/Practicality/Organisational/Financial Feasibility

How feasible does your project look to your team at this stage in terms of practicality, and financial feasibility?

Additional assets and resources

Do you need any additional assets or resources including expertise to help you deliver your project?

Adaptation

Have you made any changes to your original plans, why did you make the change and what information did you base your new plans on? For instance any changes you made to the context, format, timing, setting or population at this stage?

Integration

Do you think this project will work within the current local setting/structures? What changes need to be made to integrate your new project into existing infrastructure or programs?

Selected ideas for next phase

Based on the areas stated above, which ideas from your meetings have been selected for the phase of design and develop on SAIL?