PORTUGUESE, OF COURSE! Competitiveness - Defining and delivering the Portuguese wines consumers will want to buy.
TOUGHER THAN EVER! Sustainability - Designing and delivering a resilient Portuguese vine and wine system.
ABOUT US
CoLAB VINES&WINES, an initiative led by ADVID – the Association for the Development of Viticulture in the Douro Region which is the national Vine and Wine Cluster, together with the portuguese viticulture ecosystem, aims to be the ideal partner in the innovation of products, processes and services of companies in the Portuguese wine sector.
OUR MISSION:
– To generate and communicate knowledge and technology that enhances the expressed ambition of the sector to increase the export value.
– Supports the ambition expressed by the sector to increase the export value of Portuguese wines.
– Ensures that the Portuguese wine system becomes more efficient, resilient and flexible in order to respond to climate, demographic and economic challenges.
OUR MAJOR CHALLENGES
PORTUGUESE, OF COURSE! Competitiveness – Defining and delivering the Portuguese wines consumers will want to buy.
TOUGHER THAN EVER! Sustainability – Designing and delivering a resilient Portuguese vine and wine system.
VINES&WINES TEAM
The VINES&WINES has a multidisciplinary team dedicated to supporting the wine sector by executing and building value from Research, Development and Innovation initiatives.
PROJECTS
Main goal: to create a Spatial Data Infrastructure to support decision making that will include climate and agronomic indicators, allowing winegrowers of any location to benefit from the information provided. The project led by Geodouro has ADVID, INESC-TEC and UTAD as co-promoters.
Main goal: to provide innovative forecasting tools (connected and with digital access) for wine-growing SMEs, whose objective is to evaluate production and access data from international markets. This is a project developed by the partnership of entities from France, Spain and Portugal.
Main goal: to create an innovative technological service for the monitoring of vineyards, which will allow SMEs in the SUDOE region to monitor their vineyards in real time, remotely and taking into account various levels of accuracy (grape, plant, plot and farm).
Main goal: project approved by the program Fundo Ambiental, with the purpose of developing a training and environmental education program adapted to different audiences. Its purpose is to promote and publicize the best that is already being done in viticultural ecosystems, regarding the conservation and protection of biodiversity.
Main goal: international initiative approved and funded by the Interreg Sudoe Programme, which aims to offer integrated, innovative, and viable solutions to reduce the use of copper while promoting environmentally sustainable production.
Main goal: to investigate and develop innovative products, based on yeasts, with antagonistic action against phytopathogenic agents present in the vineyard, biotrophic and non-biotrophic fungi, as well as microorganisms that contaminate post-harvest grapes.
Main goal: to promote the conservation of the intravarietal variability of grape varieties and in the selection of dozens of those considered most important at national level.
*collaboration with the Portuguese Association for Vine Diversity (PORVID).
Main goal: to develop studies and analyses of collections of vine genotypes recovered mainly from old vineyards throughout the country.
Main goal: to promote the internationalisation of the agro-food sector in articulation with the wine tourism sector, boosting the increase in exports of more sophisticated and differentiated goods and services linked to the territories, endogenous products and the rural world, and reinforcing the international competitiveness of North, Centre and Alentejo SMEs in this sector.
Main goal: to adopt an innovative strategy to characterize the microbial community of 3 grape varieties from the Douro DOC region, targeting the selection of relevant strains to be used as starter cultures in the production of regional wines with strong imprint of the terroir, adding substantial value to local resources and contributing to the local (and global) improvement of the economic sector.
Main goal: to increase the availability of microalgae biomass through the valorization of gaseous and liquid wine waste.
* CoLAB VINES&WINES participates in the advisory board of this project.
Main goal: Objective: to promote the good practices of Circular Economy already implemented by some companies in the wine sector and to contribute to an active citizenship in this area.
Main goal: to launch and consolidate the Wine Innovation Cluster Alliance – WICA, an European strategy for innovation in the grape&wine value chain, which will promote the internationalization of the auxiliary companies of the wine industry through the creation of a network of SMEs with the purpose of knowing the market and its innovation trends.
Main goal: development of a technological solution for an economically efficient and ecologically sustainable vineyard. The case study for this project is the Douro region, which is more vulnerable to climate change.
Main goal: redesign Mediterranean farming systems for greater resilience and productivity by focusing on the development of sustainable agricultural production systems through the combined use of biotechnological tools and environmentally friendly agronomic practices.
Objective: Development of a low-cost sensor network that allows spatially assessing water stress in a vineyard in real time.
Objective: the withering that occurred in the 2020 Viticultural Year, with greater incidence on the Touriga Francesa variety, led to the creation of the working group. which results from the collaboration of ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES with various business and scientific associates. The implementation and monitoring of the plant physiology trial has been supported by UTAD (University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro) and will also have the support of UM (University of Minho), with regard to laboratory components.
Innovation in the Knowledge and Technology Transfer in the Wine Sector. RRN Technical Assistance – Area 4 – Observation of agriculture and rural territories.
Objective: transfer knowledge and technology to the agricultural, agrifood and rural development sectors, with a view to enhancing them by capitalizing on information and project results in priority themes, as well as the development and dissemination of good agricultural practices.
Objective: Develop a monitoring network for the vector insects of X. fastidiosa, particularly Philaenus spumarius, and a risk prediction model that allows the National Agricultural Advisory Service to issue specific alerts for these insects.
Photonic integrated LIDAR and snapshot spectral imagers for scaling up multimodal perception in precision applications
Objective: The RETINA project aims to establish a holistic framework for the development of photonic technologies, wherein specific efforts in next-generation hardware solutions—focused on a new LIDAR solution and low-cost CMOS, InGaAs, and QD spectral imaging generators—will be linked to the creation of a digital infrastructure for the agile and efficient development of perception algorithms based on machine learning.
The Mobilising Agenda for Business Innovation Vine & Wine Portugal, which aims to increase the competitiveness and resilience of the vine and wine sector in Portugal, has a dedicated investment in asset training , with 13 training actions planned between March 2024 and December 2025, promoted by ADVID with the collaboration of UTAD.
ECOSPHEREWINES – Improving ecosystem services and green infrastructure in wine-growing areas of high ecological value
Objective: To improve the ecosystem services provided by vineyard agricultural landscapes through the implementation of a network of green infrastructures (IV) in areas of high ecological value, as a strategy for their conservation and sustainable management, improving biodiversity and increasing their resilience to climate change.
DigiFarm2all – Sustainability and Democratisation of Agriculture 4.0
Objective: to democratise Agriculture 4.0 through specialised technical support in integrated crop management, optimising the use of production factors, protecting natural resources and minimising environmental impact, thus contributing to the efficiency and sustainable intensification of agricultural production.
VINNY – Advanced nano encapsulation of bio-based pesticides and fertilisers for a circular and sustainable viticulture
Objective: Development of sustainable, low-cost nanoformulated biopesticides (nanoBPs) and biofertilisers (nanoBFs) to contribute to more resilient viticultural systems. The application of nanoformulations will contribute to the definitive shift from intensive agriculture to sustainable agriculture in viticulture, on a global scale.
An overall frameWork with Anticounterfeit and inTelligence-based technologieS that will assist food chain stakehOlders in rapidly identifying and preveNting the spread of fraudulent practices
Objective: to develop an anti-fraud technological framework, based on artificial intelligence and using sensors and digital tags, which will make it possible to identify and prevent fraudulent practices in the vine and wine sector.
LivingSoiLL – Healthy Soil to Permanent Crops Living Labs
Objective: To respond to soil degradation by creating 5 Living Laboratories (LLs) in PT, FR, ES, IT and PL, comprising at least 50 demonstration sites and 10 lighthouses, with the active participation of more than 2000 local actors. These LLs will focus on improving soil health and ecosystem services through the co-creation, co-implementation and co-testing of (digital) solutions to reduce erosion, improve soil structure, reduce the impacts of intensive fertiliser and pesticide use, increase water storage, strengthen soil biodiversity and overall soil resilience.
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LATEST NEWS
The international ECOSPHEREWINES project held its second General Assembly online last December. During the consortium meeting, significant progress was reported in each of the project’s technical areas.
The project is continuing with its work plan in which progress has been made in the project’s two pilots: the pilot in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula and the pilot in France.
The Northwest Peninsula pilot has three experimental areas located in territories of high natural value in Spain and Portugal, which share common challenges such as ageing and depopulation. The three pilot areas are located in Mariñas-Betanzos (Spain), Alto Douro (Portugal) and Arribes del Duero (Spain).
More information about the project here.
Represented by Catarina Barbosa and Manuel Oliveira, ADVID/ CoLAB VINES&WINES took part in the kick-off meeting of the VINNY Project, which took place on 25 and 26 July in Porto and the Douro Demarcated Region.
The project has 19 members in its Consortium, from 10 different countries, who are coming together with the aim of developing nano-formulated, sustainable and low-cost biopesticides (nanoBPs) and biofertilisers (nanoBFs) to contribute to more resilient vineyard systems.
More information about the project here.
We would like to inform you that ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES is now present on a new communication platform, Instagram, and will be strengthening its presence on Linkedin.
Given the significant transition from conventional communication to digital platforms and the importance of ADVID in disseminating and transferring knowledge throughout the national wine sector, we consider it essential to establish our presence on relevant digital platforms such as Instagram or Linkedin, in a complementary perspective that increases the scope of knowledge transfer.
We invite you to follow us on our Instagram pages at the following links:
Represented by Luís Marcos and Joana Ribeiro, ADVID/ CoLAB VINES&WINES took part in the kick-off meeting of the ECOSPHEREWINES project, which took place on the 12th and 13th of March in Coruña.
The project, co-funded by the Interreg Sudoe programme, involves 13 organisations from Portugal, Spain and France, which have come together with the aim of implementing a network of green infrastructures for the conservation and sustainable management of vineyards located in areas of high ecological value, thus improving their natural capital and biodiversity and increasing their resilience to climate change.
ECOSPHEREWINES will be technically supported by two pilots, located in the south of France and in Spain-Portugal, where a methodology will be implemented to select, calculate and map the most relevant ecosystem services in order to establish future scenarios that facilitate decision-making and enable the transfer and replicability of the solutions tested at international level.
More information on the project here.
The mobilising agenda for Business Innovation Vine & Wine Portugal, which aims to increase the competitiveness and resilience of the vine and wine sector in Portugal, has a dedicated investment in training, with 13 training actions planned between March 2024 and December 2025, promoted by ADVID with the collaboration of UTAD.
As part of this mobilising agenda, we are going to start the training sessions with the action “Agroecology and Viticulture” and “Optimising vineyard operations using innovative techniques/technologies“.
More information about the project here.
