Bauhaus Bites
Birmingham City Council is part of the prestigious Bauhaus Bites programme, a 3-year, 2024 to 2027, EU-funded Horizon Europe initiative that’s reimagining food as a tool for urban renewal and social connection.
Birmingham is leading innovative work that celebrates our city’s rich cultural diversity, empowers communities, and promotes sustainable living.
Learn more about the EU Bauhaus Bites programme and the partners we are working alongside.
The programme
Rooted in the values of the New European Bauhaus, beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive, Bauhaus Bites is all about co-creation.
The programme will focus on East Birmingham, where partners will collaborate to build healthier, greener, and more connected food environments.
From mapping community assets like growing spaces and kitchens, to launching a fund for grassroots projects to strengthen local spaces and celebrate cultural heritage - every step will be shaped by communities and organisations in East Birmingham.
Together, the partnership will:
- develop a culturally diverse crop database
- explore land use strategies that support nature-based solutions
- create a food system literacy framework
- co-produce creative food education through the arts.
Our shared goal is to make East Birmingham’s food system inclusive, resilient, and rooted in community pride. Birmingham’s innovations will be captured in the Bauhaus Bites Playbook, a toolkit of tested methods and practical guidance for other cities across Europe.
Bauhaus Bites is more than a food programme, it’s about transforming places, empowering people, and building a legacy of wellbeing.
Download the Bauhaus Bites action plan 2024 to 2027
Further information
To learn more about the programme, or if you are an organisation working in East Birmingham and would like to get involved, please contact the team at FoodSystemPH@birmingham.gov.uk and sign up for updates.
Page last updated: 20 January 2026
