PASTINNOVA is an important project supported by the European Prima foundation and program for Research and Innovation solutions in the Mediterranean region. It focuses on the sustainability of Mediterranean pastoralism and aims to deliver innovations and business models that pertain to the particularities of pastoral systems in the Mediterranean where small ruminant production systems are still very important but often threatened. From 2022 to 2025, the project will utilize a co-creation approach, based on the theory of Living Laboratories, in order to upscale existing innovations for a broad range of socio-cultural, economic, environmental and policy aspects. Its objective is to impact on the livelihoods of pastoral areas and people (especially vulnerable ones), while increasing the marketability of pastoral food products and favouring multi functionality. The project has twenty-two multi – actors partners from 10 Mediterranean countries