- 15/07/2025
- Posted by: Sandra Borma
- Category: News
On 25 June, COLEAD held its Board of Directors and General Assembly in a hybrid format, bringing together almost 200 members who joined the event online through national members’ meetings. Around twenty countries were represented. This level of participation highlights the network’s increasing vitality and the value placed on direct dialogue between members, teams, and partners.
During the meeting, members approved the 2024 annual report and financial accounts. The meeting also provided an opportunity to review progress towards the five major strategic objectives set for 2025. Overall, the results are encouraging in terms of implementing and launching new programmes, strengthening partnerships, promoting technical and educational resources, structuring the members’ network, and advocating for and inspiring communities to support the transition towards sustainable agrifood systems.
In June, the participatory process of developing the COLEAD 2030 strategy reached an important milestone with the distribution of a questionnaire to almost 900 stakeholders, 300 of whom have already responded. These responses will inform the workshops planned for autumn.
These exchanges confirm the collective commitment to COLEAD’s ambition to contribute fully to the Sustainable Development Goals, in line with the priorities of the EU Green Deal and the Global Gateway. The first presentation of the 2030 strategy will take place in December at the next COLEAD Consultative Committee meeting with its partners.
