Siena, 3-4 November 2026
Venue: Santa Chiara Lab – University of Siena
Via Valdimontone 1, Siena
Concept
The workshop aims to bridge the gap between high-level mandates—the UN Agenda 2030 and the European Green Deal (EGD)—and the specific realities of the Euro-Mediterranean region, with a particular focus on the PRIMA priorities. By convening the Future4PRIMA CSA experts, the event will move beyond theoretical alignment to identify the structural barriers and scale up best practices. In addition this workshop will feature a specialized thematic focus dedicated to the relevance of product quality and geographic origin as strategic tools for valorizing agri-food productions.
The workshop follows a verifiable step-by-step sequence:
Day 1 (Evidence & Diagnosis): Moves from Mediterranean SDG evidence to PRIMA2 priorities, stakeholder identification, barrier prioritization, innovation uptake, territorial case studies, and the PRIMA-SDG Tool methodology.
Day 2 (Validation & Recommendations): Focuses on testing the PRIMA-SDG Tool, identifying enabling assets and solutions, defining differentiated local, national, and regional implementation pathways, and concluding with a structured synthesis and prioritization of policy recommendations.
The final plenary explicitly produces a preliminary Recommendations Matrix with five mandatory fields: Identified Barrier, Enabling Asset Solution, Governance Level, Responsible Actor, and Proposed Action. This structures the output directly for the Multilevel Policy Package and the future PRIMA2 framework.
By participating in this workshop, you will gain exclusive access to and hands-on discussion of the PRIMA-SDG Tool, explore the portfolio-level SDG analysis, and seize a unique opportunity to contribute evidence and recommendations to the PRIMA2 impact and monitoring framework.
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Agenda
3 November – Evidence and Diagnosis
Focus: Mapping evidence, review emerging PRIMA2 priorities, identifying barriers, and introducing assessment tools.
09:00 | Welcome coffee
09:15 | Keynote: The Poly-crisis Context: A briefing on how the EGD and SDGs intersect with Mediterranean climate and food security challenges | Angelo Riccaboni, PRIMA Co-Chair
09:40 | Session 1: The pathway towards PRIMA2 | Antonella Autino, PRIMA Foundation
10:00 | Session 2: The Mediterranean Dashboard on SDGs: Presentation of preliminary data on SDG implementation across the Mediterranean basin | Simone Cresti, Santa Chiara Lab, SDSN Med
10:15 | Session 3: Stakeholder Identification and Experience | From Policy to Impact: Algerian Research for Agenda 2030 and PRIMA2 – Mohammed Loucif | Algerian MHESRS
10:45 | Coffee & Networking
11:15 | Session 4: Interactive Session, Stakeholder Identification and Prioritisation of Barriers: Participatory workshop to categorize barriers into Technical, Financial, Political, and Social categories.
12:15 | Presentation of results of PRIMA2Business Services (WP4-T4.2)
13:30 | Lunch Break
15:00 | Session 4: Territorial Case Study | WOW: a journey through local culture, research, and innovation, discovering agri-food supply chains and the challenges facing our time. Example of place-based implementation of SDG/WEFE objectives and innovation valorisation (field visit)
16:30 | Session 5 – From Research Outputs to SDG Impact: An Innovative Tool for Measuring Research and Innovation Contributions to Sustainable Development | Ali Rhouma, PRIMA Foundation
17:00 | Session 6 – Mapping Innovation Across the Mediterranean: The PRIMA Interactive Atlas of Projects and Demonstration Sites | Ali Rhouma, PRIMA Foundation
17:30 | Closing of Day 1
19:00 | Visit of a Contrada Museum and Social Dinner
4 November – The Multilevel Policy Package
Focus: Tool testing, identifying enabling assets/solutions, mapping implementation pathways, and formulating actionable policy recommendations.
09:00 | Recap & Strategic Alignment: Review of day 1 findings and alignment with Future4PRIMA objectives.
09:30 | Session 1 – PRIMA-SDG Tool Testing: guided demonstration and structured feedback exercise on the PRIMA-SDG Tool.
10:00 | Session 2 – Stakeholder engagement. Tematic discussion tables with the engagement of associations, policymakers, businesses, farmers, youth for a mapping of assets and prioritization of solutions. The outputs of this session will be a preliminary matrix that will feed the “Asset Package”
11:00 | Coffee Break
11:30 | Session 3 – “The Asset Package”: Split in 3 sessions on which relevant assets (infrastrucures, projects, knowledge, policies, actors) are considered strategic for Local (Municipal/Smallholder), National (Policy alignment), and Regional (Euro-Med cooperation) implementation patways.
12:30 | Session 4 – Plenary – Synthesis and Prioritisation of Policy Recommendations: the Multilevel Policy Package
13:00 | Closing Remarks: Final conclusions and next steps for the PRIMA2 pathway
13:15 | Light lunch