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September 14, 2026International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

Beyond awareness: co-creating food waste engagement in higher education

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EAElena Fraj AndrésCHCarolina HerrandoLLLaura Lucia‐Palacios

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Overview

Educational intervention demonstrates distinct effects of emotional appeals in university students, indicating that co-creation enhances food waste engagement.

Key Points

  • To evaluate an experiential co-creation project designed to raise student food waste awareness and develop peer-targeted sustainable marketing campaigns.
  • Implemented a project combining baseline diagnostic surveys and hands-on campaign design workshops within an undergraduate marketing program.
  • Assessed student-developed campaign materials using self-report survey instruments alongside neuromarketing eye-tracking tools.
  • Active co-creation transformed initial student perceptions of food waste from a low-priority topic into an engaging and personally relevant issue.
  • Campaign appeals eliciting positive emotions generated the highest visualization rates, superior initial visual engagement, and enhanced shareability.
  • Campaign appeals eliciting negative emotions produced greater message internalization and achieved higher persuasive potential.

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Andrés et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6aa7b3ee0926e14a848b33fbhttps://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe-10-2025-1267
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