De Gezonde Schoolkantine op de agenda houden: bij scholen én leerlingen. Optimale inzet van tools en betrokkenheid van leerlingen bij De Gezonde Schoolkantine.

The Netherlands Nutrition Center supports schools in implementing the Guidelines for Healthier Canteens (RGK). Previous research shows that this leads to healthier canteens. However, long-term maintenance of a healthier canteen requires flexible and personally tailored support. The objective of this project was to optimize support for the implementation of the RGK through the use of a digital decision aid, which identifies what support a school needs in its specific context to make the school canteen healthier and/or to (better) secure it. Furthermore, we explored how pupils could and would like to be involved in the (sustainable) implementation of the healthy school canteen.
First, we used a questionnaire to find out which stimulating and hindering factors schools experience in maintaining a healthy school canteen. We then conducted in-depth interviews and focus groups with various stakeholders such as school management, caterers, students, healthy school advisors, healthy school coordinators and Advisors Food Environments of the Netherlands Nutrition Center.