The project consortium’s first opportunity to meet face to face will occur from the 26th to 28th April 2023, in Bari (Italy), where CIHEAM-IAMB will host almost over 50 participants.

The 3 day meeting will allow the project partners to thoroughly go through the developed deliverables and reports and also to discuss, prepare and organize the upcoming activities and outputs by:

• sharing a common understanding of what are agro-ecological practices, agro-ecological practices combinations and NATAE main scientific challenges according to existing knowledge production on agro-ecology performance and multiple benefits
• precise what promising agro-ecological practices and combinations are already identified at Living Lab scale and how, and their state of adoption and constraints
• sharing and validating  the integrated data collection protocol for farm surveys
• establishing a timeline for Living Labs  activities according to main tasks, milestones and deliverables
• reviewing and validating a common methodology for enabling socio-economic and local governance dynamics around AE, AEP and combinations and AE transition
• reviewing main next activities and meetings
• clarifying main administrative and financial issues and above all, reporting and contracting during the project