Amuse: culinary world festival

Amuse is Hasselt’s international solidarity’s celebratory moment: many citizens from Hasselt are active for or in the South! We must propagate what is going well in the world because development cooperation is also a positive story. The Hasselt 4th pillar organizations and NGO&#39;s have the opportunity to introduce themselves to the general public by selling snacks at democratic prices. Their sales profit goes entirely to their project in the South. This way we also try to create some commitment with the inhabitants of our city.<br />
We have linked the event to the SDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals. This is the connection between the various projects, the fair trade story and our choice to make Amuse as sustainable as possible. One of the eyecatchers of the event was the colourful SDG-wall which also made the SDGs visible across the entire site. We want to present Amuse as a coherent and consistent SDG-minded project. It is important that the visitors can easily comprehend this coherence. We also used the SDGs in our communication about the event.<br />
All charities present have a project for/in the South that can be linked to 1 or more SDGs. This was made visible at their sales stand. Furthermore, the seating areas for the visitors were furnished with SDG seats, there were large SDG posters and people could sign up as an &#39;SDG follower&#39;. In short, the SDGs were very visible and easily accessible on Amuse. This was a first introduction to the SDGs for many of the thousands of visitors. In this way we have made the theme known to a wider audience.<br />
The Hasselt city council wants to help shape the 17 development goals set by the UN in the Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 from the local policy level, and signed the commitment statement &#39;Global Goals, Local Focus&#39; on 19/05/2016. This action fits within all 17 objectives.