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.
ASSOCIATES
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LATEST NEWS
The ReWine project is an educational program that aims to promote good practices of Circular Economy already implemented by some companies in the wine sector and whose contents will be presented over the following months.
The main goal of this project is to contribute to an active citizenship in this field, focused on the awareness that Circular Economy is an important pathway to achieve Sustainable Development.
This initiative is promoted by ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES, co-financed by the Environmental Fund and ENEA2020, and is based on the three principles of circular economy – Eliminate waste and pollution, Keep products and materials in use and Regenerate natural systems.
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Re-design, Re-adapt and Re-invent
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CoLAB VINES&WINES
CoLAB VINES&WINES participated in the 2nd ANNUAL MEETING OF COLLABORATORY LABORATORIES held on the 9th and 10th of November at the University of Aveiro.
The event, organized by ANI, aimed to promote and monitor the activities and progressive evolution of the 35 currently recognized CoLABs, as well as their development in the context of regional, national and European research and innovation strategies.
Access the video of the event here.
ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES participated in the first edition of the “Science at Lunch” initiative dedicated to the topic of viticulture and sustainability.
The event was organized by the School of Sciences of the University of Minho (ECUM), took place last Friday, October 8, and included the presentation of several scientific projects currently in progress at UMinho, Sogrape and ADVID/CoLAB WINES&WINES, with the objective of helping the sector to become more resilient and sustainable.
ADVID’s participation was promoted under some of its current strategic lines – Climate Change, Sustainable Production and Economic Sustainability – through the EYESonTRAPS, INFRAVINI, VINIOT and VINCI projects.
Also in focus was the demonstration of the open access platform – ADVIDclim, with climate projections for mainland Portugal in the time periods 2020, 2050 and 2080.
The European Event Agriculture 4.0 – Driving Sustainability for the European Wine Sector is promoted by ADVID, through CoLAB VINES&WINES, and will take place online on June 16, between 9am and 5pm.
See the program and register here.
ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES is involved in an innovative project to reduce the use of copper in vineyards – COPPEREPLACE.
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.
Visit the website for more information at www.coppereplace.com.