The 1st Steering Committee of the SmartAL project was co-organised by the International Center for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies-Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Montpellier (CIHEAM-IAMM) –as the Coordinator– and the Agricultural University of Tirana (UBT) –as a member of the Project Consortium–, on 22 & 23 October 2018. On 22 October, Magali Maire, SmartAL Project Coordinator, CIHEAM-IAMM representative, after the welcome of the consortium members, thanked them for their high involvement and commitment in the project. The members of the Steering Committee, after a presentation of the Quality Plan submitted by Dr Fatmir Guri of the UBT and Pr Pascal Chevalier of the University Paul Valéry Montpellier (UPV), in collaboration with the CIHEAMIAMM, validated it as a structural framework of the project. The Communication Plan and communications tools were then presented by Dr Ketrina Çabiri Mijo, European University of Tirana (UET), as the leader of the Communication Work Package, and validated by the Steering Committee. Finally, a reminder of the financial rules related to the Management of Capacity Building Projects as well as a financial statement of the project to date, were provided by the Coordinator. On 23 October, a reminder of the 2018-2019 Work Plan was provided by the CIHEAM-IAMM and the objectives of the mobilities of Albanian & EU teachers were detailed. Dr Elena Kokthi, Teacher and Researcher at the UET, presented her first experience of the mobility at the CIHEAM-IAMM and pairing of teachers with Dr Tahani Abdelhakim of the CIHEAM-IAMM, and the starting of a Master module design. The pairing of Albanian / EU teachers was set up, and discussions on the design of modules’ methodology were held among partners: the UBT, the UET and the University Fan S. Noli of Korçë (UNKO), as the Albanian higher education institutions of the Consortium; the University of Hohenheim (Germany), the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Greece), the University Paul Valéry Montpellier (France) and the CIHEAM-IAMM (France) being the European ones.