The new edition of the talent adds sustainabilitу to the values of “education” and “competition”, proposing itself as a cultural bridge between Colombia and Italy, between the reality of the coffee producers and the international scene. Nicole Battefeld (29 years old, from Germany), Diego Campos (27 yo, from Colombia), Iuliia Dziadevych (25 yo, Ukraine), Cong Yuan (23 yo, China), Matija Matijaško (26 yo, Croatia), Daniel Munari (32 yo, Brazil), Sara Ricci (28 yo Italy), Vala Stefansdottir (30 yo, Iceland), Victoria Rovenskaya (26 yo, Russia): these are the the nine baristas, selected among more than 250 applications who, along with the tenth participant (who will be revealed at Melbourne International Coffee Expo (MICE) in march 2018), will be committed in a complete training course, from the picking in the plantation, through all the steps of the coffee production, using different technologies, up to the tasting experience and the multiple consumption opportunities. Work and learning will be interspersed with opportunities for fun and relaxation, with themed games and competitions. The finalists will be filmed and the videos will be broadcast on www.baristafarmer.com and the talent show’s social networks. Among the confirmed places that will host the talent, there are Meta, one of the 32 departments of Colombia. Here, the Lavazza Foundation is promoting sustainability projects aimed at the community of producers and their families, for a total of 350 people working with coffee. Huila is another region that will witness the arrival of the international baristas: its lands were once controlled by the cocaine producers, but now they have been freed by the colombian government and donated to small local coffee producers. Source: comunicaffe.com/barista-farmer-to-take-place-from-the-3rd-to-13th-may-in-colombia/