On May 3, 2018 the first monitoring visit of the LIFE YEAST project took place at the BDi Biotechnology facilities in Valladolid. The meeting was attended by Estibaliz Gabilondo from the NEEMO external monitoring team representing the European Commission, the different project partners (VLP Bio, AB InBev) and BDi Biotechnology as the coordinator of the project. The aim of this first meeting was to assess the technical project progress and the upcoming actions, as well as the financial status of the project and the project management in general