Francesca Volpe One main goal or achievement is that the action plan or the food policy has been included in one of the axes of the metropolitan strategic plan towards 2030. So, food policy is one of the top priorities of the Metropolitan City of Bari. And in October 2023, hopefully, they will approve the action plan. So, they will approve it and they will also try to fund it through regional development funds. But another achievement could be that the metropolitan city of Bari has a group of 41 municipalities. So, it is like a district and the work we did with the metropolitan city of Bari is kind of unique in Italy, because it goes beyond the urban. Lorenzo Labellarte Because in Italy, most initiatives of this kind are in the urban area. Here we try to scale up, let's say, and involve the whole district which comprises 41 municipalities. Francesca Volpe Overall, we created stronger links or awareness in the metropolitan city. So, the awareness of an integrated policy which lends on food. And on the other hand, as our institution works mostly at the international level, I mean, at the southern Mediterranean level, with non-EU countries. So, we tried to create an entry point with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And now, we are in the middle of discussing key priorities, key priority actions that could be implemented in a local and urban context in southern Mediterranean countries. Lorenzo Labellarte Maybe we should also name the connection with Taranto. As a Living Lab, we are now trying to replicate the experiment that we did in Bari, in creating the local food policy, in Taranto. So, we applied the Living Lab approach with three workshops, and the public authorities were involved from the beginning of the process. Now, we are more or less at the same level as in Bari. I mean, now we are developing the document containing the action plan for a potential local food policy in Taranto, and we are waiting for some feedback from their side. Because the idea is to adopt the same process of endorsement of the policy in Taranto. Francesca Volpe Overall, we also promote the action plan that follows the manifesto. We tried to scale up the relevance of the process of the metropolitan city of Bari in other networks. So, we linked up with Slow Food at the national level, we linked up with the Italian network for local food policies. We tried to improve the capacity of the institutional body to exchange with other cities or experiences.
Lorenzo Labellarte We managed to start, to really start the process. To have the topic on the political agenda itself. So, the topic is now there, it is known. Now, there will be a lot of work to do.