In 2024, the Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Hannah Arendt Political Studies (LIPHA) received a grant from the National Research Agency (ANR) to fund the DACCORD research project, a collaborative research project between Sorbonne Paris Nord University (USPN) and UPEC.

In a context where the student population is eager to adopt a more sustainable diet but often finds themselves unable to do so due to financial and material constraints, deliberative processes emerge as an innovative solution to create consensus and generate concrete solutions and applications.

Thus, the Deliberation on Food at the University and Co-Construction of a Responsible and Sustainable Offer (DACCORD) project was initiated. This study aims to understand to what extent a deliberative approach based on the model of the Student Citizen Assembly (SCA) allows students and university stakeholders to appropriate the health, societal, and environmental issues of food.

The project will be marked by the organization of the first student citizen convention on food at USPN as well as a series of qualitative and quantitative surveys seeking to understand the impact that participatory mechanisms can have on student practices. These surveys will be conducted respectively by the two research laboratories of USPN and UPEC, which will produce, at the end of this study, a guide of best practices to facilitate the deployment of SCAs on food at universities.