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
ReWine, an ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES project whose main objective was to promote good Circular Economy practices already implemented by some companies in the wine sector, is one of the finalists of the 9th edition of the Crédito Agrícola Entrepreneurship and Innovation Award.
| On July 21st, ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES participated in the International Congress “Smart and Circular Agriculture towards Sustainability” with the oral communication “The Best Circular Practices in Portugal’s Wine Sector – The ReWine project”, presented by Cátia Santos, a member of this CoLAB. |
ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES accompanied the Demonstration Session on tractors of the Antonio Carraro brand, promoted by the Associate Montez Champalimaud Lda. in partnership with the brand and Alfredo Pinto & Filhos, Lda, in order to evaluate the suitability of the proposed solutions to mountain viticulture, more specifically to the reality of the Douro Demarcated Region.
On July 6th, ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES welcomed VIMÉTRICA AGRO, Lda, leader of the INCAFO project – Grape Variety Identification through the Leaf, for an exploratory field trip.
This initiative aimed to present the technology under development, which focuses on a varietal identification system, through leaves, using artificial vision, and the collection of hundreds of leaves of different varieties that will assist in the development of models for identifying them. The logistical aspects of a future collaboration with CoLAB in the development of this project with relevance to the sector were also established, and potential synergies between the two entities were explored.
ADVID/CoLAB VINES&WINES participated in TerClim 2022 – 14th International Terroir Congress and the 2nd ClimWine Symposium with the poster “The potential of multispectral/hyperspectral technologies for early detection of “flavesvence dorée” in a Portuguese vineyard”.
The event, which began on the 4th and ends today, aims to bring together scientists from around the world working in viticultural terroirs, studying their physical, biological and human characteristics, and their links to wine quality. The ClimWine symposium focused on the theme of climate change impacts and adaptation strategies, covering topics from climate prediction to socio-economic considerations.