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