Table 3. Lessons-learned and comments reported in the survey for coordinators of agroecology research projects.

n.	Quotes
1.	“Great care may need taken to help ensure a ″better balance″ of science/academic goals with the transdisciplinary and business elements. Many academics, simply, do not understand what transdisciplinary is, and how this can help direct their research effort towards being more impactful” - EU
2.	“Involvement of stakeholders in co-creation is useful and facilitates the impact but it is at the same time very challenging due to the differences in understanding how the science is run”-EU
3.	“Researchers′ and scientists′ targets and how their work is evaluated is in contrast with the type of work and activities needed to engage effectively with stakeholders. The importance of academic publications is still too great to allow scientists to dedicate more time to stakeholder engagement” – Transnational
4.	“Projects are difficult when trying to be truly collaborative, but we learned a lot and dissemination and collaboration with stakeholders becomes stronger” -Transnational
5.	“Agroecology has a cultural dimension. Scientist and stakeholders have to change their mind/way of thinking regarding their relationships with living beings and environment”- EU
6.	“ Importance of considering actors who are hard to reach to ensure Multi-Actor Platforms reflect the principals of just transitions.”- EU
7.	“ Stakeholders and strategies for further enhancement and contributions to transitions to agroecology require flexibility to compositions and the addition of further actors to the network - EU

EU: European project; Transnational: Transnational project.