The SCALE-it consortium met in Granada from 4 – 6 November 2025 for its first Annual General Meeting. The Estación Experimental del Zaidín, a research institute of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), hosted the event. Participants from partner organisations across Europe gathered to review progress and plan the next steps.
The meeting opened with a welcome from the Deputy Director of the Estación Experimental del Zaidín. An introduction to the SCALE-it project followed, before leaders of Work Packages 1 to 4 presented the latest results and outlined priorities for the coming year. In the afternoon, partners moved into parallel working sessions to prepare joint activities and discuss links between scientific tasks and demonstration trials.
The second day focused on collaboration between Work Packages 5, 6 and 7. The programme included an overview of the consumer survey and discussions on data collection in demonstration trials. Partners also reflected on communication and dissemination activities led by Work Package 8, which ensures that project results reach farmers, advisors, policy-makers and the wider public.
In the afternoon, participants visited the CSIC livestock experimental station, a local organic olive farm and the Conde de Benalúa olive oil mill. These visits highlighted the practical relevance of the project’s research.
On the last day, participants reviewed the outcomes of the previous sessions and identified concrete next steps. A dedicated session on Work Package 7 addressed the exploitation of project results and included an update on the exchange with the sister project BIO2.
The meeting closed with a short General Assembly and, for those who stayed longer, a guided visit through the historic centre of Granada.
About the project
SCALE-it runs for 48 months and is funded under the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme (2021-2027), with co-funding from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). The project is coordinated by FiBL Europe, with scientific leadership from FiBL Switzerland.
- FiBL Europe (FiBL EU)
- FiBL France (FiBL FR)
- The Hungarian Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (ÖMKi)
- Julius Kühn-Institut Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen (JKI)
- Centro Internazionale di Alti Studi Agronomici Mediterranei (IAMB)
- Fondazione Edmund Mach (FEM)
- Università degli Studi di Trento (UNITN)
- SRUC (SRUC)
- International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements European Union Regional Group (IFOAM EU)
- Innovationscenter for Økologisk Landbrug (ICOEL)
- Naturland e.V. (Naturland)
- Öko-Obstbau Norddeutschland (ÖON)
- BioSelena (BioSelena)
- Estonian Organic Farming Foundation (EOFF)
- Trifolio-M GmbH (TM)
- Københavns Universitet (UCPH)
- Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego (SGGW)
- Aarhus Universitet (AU)
- Coventry University (CU)
- Universität Hohenheim (UHOH)
- Universidad de Jaén (UJA)
- Ekolojik Tarım Organizasyonu Derneği (ETO)
- Instytut Ogrodnictwa - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy (InHort)
- Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
- Fundacja Imienia Stanisława Karłowskiego (Juchowo)
- O.P. Ortofrutticola Jonica S.A.C.A.R.L. (OP Jonica)
- Ελληνικό Μεσογειακό Πανεπιστήμιο (HMU)
- SaluVet GmbH (SaluVet)
- Instytut Zootechniki Państwowy Instytut Badawczy (NRIAP)
- Institut Technique de l'Agriculture Biologique (ITAB)
- A Cert Ευρωπαϊκός Οργανισμός Πιστοποίησης Ανώνυμη Εταιρεία (A-CERT)
- Perleuve SRL (Perleuve)
- FiBL Switzerland (FiBL CH)
- SubstainTech (SBT)
- Agroscope (WBF-AGS)
- International Animal Health Products (IAHP)
- Horizon Europe, the European Union's Research and Innovation Programme 2021-2027 under the call HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK02
- SERI - Swiss Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, Switzerland
