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
Agronomy and Functional Biology
Chemistry, Enology and Viticulture and Molecular Biophysics
PROJECTS
The goal is 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.
The main purpose is 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.
This project aims 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).
This is a 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.
This is an 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.
ASSOCIATES
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LATEST NEWS
To bring to the fore the efforts of wine producers in promoting more sustainable operations, CoLAB VINES&WINES will publish weekly profiles of company initiatives or activities where Wine and Sustainability go hand in hand. This week we talk about the Symington Family Estates.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has declared 2020 the International Year of Plant Health to raise awareness of the importance of plant protection as a response to today’s socio-economic and environmental challenges.
On February 22nd, the Minister of Agriculture, Maria do Céu Albuquerque, was at the Centre of Excellence for Vine and Wine to visit the CoLAB VINES&WINES, a national initiative developed within ADVID promoted in partnership with key elements the national wine ecosystem.
The first edition of the CoLAB VINES&WINES Brokerage Event took place last December 10th at the Bairrada Wine Museum, in Anadia, with the theme “Challenges Facing Portuguese Wine”.
On September 25th, the VINES&WINES Collaborative Laboratory, a new national initiative developed within ADVID, held a meeting with partner teams from the national research system responsible for several scientific themes related to the vineyard and wine area.