Strategy for the implementation of the school scheme in Slovenia for the period of six school years from 2023/2024 to 2028/2029.

The Strategy for the implementation of the school scheme in Slovenia for the period of six school years from 2023/2024 to 2028/2029 is one of the measures to improve children's eating habits and is part of the Resolution on the National Program on Nutrition and Physical Activity for Health 2015-2025.
The purpose of the school scheme measure is to create a support mechanism to help: ensuring a balanced diet for children and adolescents; adequate daily intake of fruit, vegetables and milk and milk products in children and adolescents; raising awareness among children and young people about fruits and vegetables and milk and milk products in connection with agriculture, healthy eating habits, local food chains, organic farming, sustainable production and prevention of food waste and, consequently, nature conservation; informing students and teachers about the processes of food production and processing, especially fruit and vegetables and milk and milk products. In the school scheme, pupils in primary schools and children and young people in institutions for the upbringing and education of children and young people with special needs (pupils) are given an additional portion of fruit and vegetables or milk and milk products free of charge, and they are given them through various accompanying educational activities measures are linked to agriculture, educates about healthy eating habits, local food chains, organic farming, sustainable production and prevention of food waste. The school scheme also includes monitoring and evaluation of the effects of the scheme and informing the public. The strategy is written in accordance with EU legislation, which, among other things, allows the strategy to be changed or supplemented during its six-year period. Regular annual monitoring of the school scheme will show whether this will be necessary. The five-year evaluation of the school scheme will show how successfully we followed the goal of the school scheme - improving the dietary habits of children and adolescents, especially with regard to the inclusion of a greater proportion of vegetables and fruits and milk and milk products in their diet.