Combining innovation in vineyard management and genetic for a sustainable European Viticulture (InnoVine)

Description:

European wine producers must face several key issues and challenges due to climate change. The area of wine production and grape varieties will change, as well as the impact of pests and diseases in vineyards. Winegrowers will have to respect the environment while competing with other new producing countries on a more and more globalized market. 

In this context, the strategic goal of the InnoVine project is to support the European wine industry by matching consumers’ demands for top quality wines and food safety, citizen’s requests for eco-friendly production methods and winegrowers technical needs in a climate change background.

The project will aim at:

1) improving and designing agricultural practices for maximizing berry quality, durable resistance to pests and diseases, and adaptation to climate change

2) designing, developing and testing innovative agronomic systems under a wide range of environments

3) diversifying grapevine varieties to be more adaptive through international breeding genomic initiatives.

Project information

Lead

Dr Anne-Françoise Adam-Blondon INRA Centre de Versailles, France

Partners

The InnoVine consortium is composed of 27 partners: University of Milan (IT), Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica (ITQB, P), Instituto Superior de Agronomia (ISA) integrates the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (P), AGRI–Ciência, Consultores de Engenharia Lda (AGRICIENCIA, P), Bodegas Roda S.A Winery (E), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (E), Provedo Viveros S.A (E), Miguel Torres S.A (E), NOVELTIS (F), University of Bordeaux 2 (F), IRSTEA (F), Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin (F), FORCE A (F), INRA Transfert (F), INRA (F), VINIDEA (IT), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT), Verona University (IT), HORTA SRL (IT), Vivai Cooperativi Rauscedo (IT), Istituto di Genomica Applicata (IT), KI-Institute for Grapevine Breeding Geilweilerhof (D), Schloss Vollrads winery (D), Geisenheim Research Centre (D), Research Institute for Viticulture and Enology (H), AgroBioInstitute (BG), VINZAVOD AD - Winery Asenovgrad (BG)

Source of funding

FP7- Knowledge Based Bio-Economy (KBBE) program. Total cost 8.5 M€. Project funding 6 M€