• Enhancing Legume Adoption: Encourage the use of legume crops to develop sustainable, productive, and climate-resilient farming systems across Europe.
• Quantifying Ecosystem Services: Assess the environmental and economic benefits provided by both major and underutilized legume crops, promoting diversification in farming practices.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Involve a broad range of stakeholders to maximize interaction and ensure research outcomes are widely adopted.
• Knowledge Dissemination: Share scientific and technical knowledge through an E-learning platform and other channels, enabling stakeholders to effectively utilize research findings.
• Feedback Mechanism: Gather stakeholder feedback to align project outputs with user needs, ensuring relevance and practicality.
• Integrated Activities: Align dissemination, communication, and exploitation efforts to ensure sustainability and reusability of results.
• Fostering Synergies: Create synergies with other projects to enhance impact through shared networks and collaborative initiatives.
• Establishing Living Labs: Set up nine Living Labs for participatory trials that evaluate legume crop performance in diverse farming systems, co-creating solutions for their integration.
• Exploitation Strategy: Develop a robust strategy to identify commercial and non-commercial pathways for utilizing project results, ensuring sustainability beyond the project's duration.

These objectives aim to facilitate a transition towards sustainable agriculture while addressing climate change resilience and promoting healthier diets in Europe.

• Research and Trials: Conducting extensive research on both major and underutilized legume crops through field trials and experiments to assess their environmental and economic benefits. This includes evaluating their role in improving soil health, biodiversity, and overall farm productivity.
• Establishment of Living Labs: Setting up nine Living Labs where farmers, researchers, and stakeholders collaborate in participatory trials. These labs serve as experimental platforms to test innovative practices, share knowledge, and develop solutions tailored to local farming conditions.
• Stakeholder Engagement Workshops: Organizing workshops and seminars to engage farmers, agronomists, policymakers, and industry representatives. These events facilitate dialogue, knowledge exchange, and the co-creation of strategies for legume integration into existing farming systems.
• Knowledge Dissemination: Developing an E-learning platform and various communication materials (e.g., brochures, videos) to disseminate research findings and best practices. This ensures that stakeholders have access to valuable information on legume cultivation.
• Feedback Collection: Implementing mechanisms to gather feedback from stakeholders regarding the project’s outputs. This helps in refining tools and resources to better meet user needs.
• Synergy Building: Actively collaborating with other related projects and initiatives to share insights, resources, and networks, enhancing the overall impact of VALERECO's efforts.
• Exploitation Planning: Creating an exploitation strategy that identifies pathways for commercializing research results and ensuring their sustainability beyond the project's lifecycle.

Through these activities, VALERECO aims to foster a shift towards more sustainable agricultural practices while addressing challenges related to climate change and food security in Europe.