The PolyCIVIS project (ERASMUS-JMO-2023-NETWORKS) (https://civis.eu/en/) deals with the challenges of the polycrisis, namey the combination of several concurrent major societal crises by actively working at different levels, combining the latest science with overlooked lessons of the past, across disciplinary clusters, territories and languages. The latest edition of the PolyCIVIS newsletter features an interview of the BENEFIT-med Coordinator who brings insights from the BENEFIT-Med project, as a model of multidisciplinary network devoted to address the issues of climate change, moving from the lab to field, to provide sustainable solutions small farmers of the most climate-vulnerable regions of the Mediterranean Area (see https://civis.eu/storage/files/polycivis-news-march-2025.pdf ).