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.
Microbiology, Genetics and Biotechnology
Plant Physiology and Phytopathology
Chemistry, Oenology and Viticulture and Molecular Biophysics
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.
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LATEST NEWS
ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES is participating in the 44th World Vine and Wine Congress, through Leonor Pereira, who today presented the communication “Viticulture under climate change: a case study on a water scarcity model”.
The event, which runs from June 5 to 9 in Jerez de la Frontera and Cadiz, brings together experts in the fields of viticulture and oenology, as well as health, safety, law and economics related to wine production.
“Viticulture and information technologies” is the theme of the Congress, which is jointly organized by the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV) and the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
The 𝗔𝗗𝗩𝗜𝗗/𝗖𝗼𝗟𝗔𝗕 𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦&𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦 participated yesterday, represented by Micael Santos and Leonor Tunes, in the 2nd edition of 𝗜𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽 𝗱𝗼 𝗧𝗘𝗖𝗛𝟰𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗩.
The event aimed to bring together the key players of the SCTN, promote collaborative activities and foster the co-creation of innovative solutions, the participants debated some of the current business challenges presented by several companies, such as Efacec, RDD Textiles, SIBS, NOS SGPS, AGIF, SVDR AND Cleanwatts – as well as establish links through team building activities.
ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES participated in the Horizon Europe’s Soil Mission Workshop: implementation of Living Laboratories in Portugal, which took place this morning at UTAD, in Vila Real.
The event aimed to present the Soil Mission; clarify the concept and criteria to which regional Living Laboratories and European clusters eligible for funding under Horizon Europe must comply; and discuss possible approaches and different Living Laboratories on soil health that would be possible and desirable to install in Portugal.
The 3rd Session with Stakeholders – Precision viticulture services for a more sustainable vineyard management, held under the project 𝗩𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗴𝗼𝘀𝘀, took place on May 12, at Quinta do Bomfim, Pinhão.
𝗔𝗗𝗩𝗜𝗗/𝗖𝗼𝗟𝗔𝗕 𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦&𝗪𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗦 participated, through Leonor Pereira, in the round table “Viticulture 4. 0 and satellite data , the end-user experience” to discuss the needs, barriers and challenges in the adoption of new technologies, as well as the role of associations and CoLABs in the promotion and implementation of digital tools in the wine sector.
ADVID received a visit from the OIV – International Organisation of Vine and Wine on Tuesday 28 March, an initiative carried out by Sogrape Vinhos S.A.
This visit aimed to publicize ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES and its importance to the economic sector, as a Cluster and CoLAB VINES&WINES, by supporting science-based decisions.
The OIV delegation, led by its Director General, Pau Roca, and accompanied by António Graça, Director of Research and Development of Sogrape Vinhos S.A., was welcomed by the President of ADVID, José Manso, and members of its Board.
ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES is participating in the event TECH4INNOV: the Present and the Future of Innovation, taking place at Europarque, in Santa Maria da Feira.
Organized by ANI, this initiative aims to be a technological showcase of Research & Development (R&D) and Innovation results of the entities of the National Innovation System (NIS).