Over the past few years, the MED stakeholder community has built a growing awareness of the need to go beyond fragmented, one-off projects and explore their potential for scalability in a much more effective and consistent way. By scalability, we mean the capacity of project results to reach a greater number of beneficiaries over time and space, impacting on the thematic policy and practice AS-IS in a transformative manner. In response, during the preparation of the new programming period 2014-2020, there has been much talk and some action on new and innovative approaches to the capitalisation of successful pilot projects at Member State, Regional, and Macro Regional level. Particularly the MEDCAP CreativeMED White Paper proposed to set the focus on the Mediterranean as an original ‘landscape’ that blends together different types of innovation – scientific, industrial, social, and institutional – in a relatively unexplored fashion, with the explicit goal of promoting ‘triple loop’ learning as a step towards achieving sustainability and impact of piloted MED innovations at scale. However, many questions remain unanswered on the practical implications of pursuing a systematic scaling up approach and how the policy and practice dimensions relate to each other. TALIA aims to fulfil the MED horizontal call requirements while at the same time developing and implementing the CreativeMED learning concept directly with the territorial actors and stakeholders concerned.