The project aims to increase the institutional capacities of medium and small sized cities in South Adriatic area to adopt joint and participatory decision-making processes, based on civil society involvement, and to favour the uptake of food system strategies and urban food policies. The civil society involvement will be ensured by the capitalization of the Living Lab (LL) approach adopted in two Horizon Europe projects, where the local stakeholders, namely the quadruple helix ones (businesses, academia, local authorities and citizens), worked together to adopt innovative solutions to favour the food system transition.