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EU project The Wine Lab - Generating Innovation between Practice and Research creates the foundation for a dialogue among research, business and regional communities, including Universities in Agriculture, Oenology and related fields, and small wineries, mainly those located in disadvantaged areas, to stimulate knowledge flow, share challenges and solutions, and jointly generate and accelerate innovation in the wine sector. The project fosters clustering and networking, provides for learning opportunities, applies action alongside experiential research and learning and capitalises on knowledge towards new methods and approaches in policy planning. This model of intervention can be further mainstreamed to other fields such as food production and agri-tourism.

ACTIVITIES

A comprehensive, integrated study on “Learning landscapes: needs and opportunities in the wine sector” will be undertaken at the project outset, based on desk and field research, laying down the European and national state-of-the-art in the wine sector, analysing related practices from an academia-business cooperation perspective, mapping learning needs and provisions and putting forward recommendations for enhancing university-business cooperation in the wine sector across countries and at EU level. On that basis, learning and training material will be developed and a number of engaging activities will be organised to promote cooperation and innovation in the field.

Wine Hubs

Wine hubs are learning communities/ networks/ active groups of interest composed by stakeholders in the wine sector (producers, researchers, policy makers, organisations in tourism, cultural heritage bodies, etc.). During the…

Mobility & Placement

Mobility and placement of students will be put in place, including necessary guidelines and tools, to establish factual and constructive relations, facilitate dialogue between academia and business in the wine…

Learning & Training

Learning and training material will be developed in open source formats and online learning environment to be integrated in university curricula and wine hubs and tested in innovative formats that…

Wine Living Labs

Wine Living Labs will be activated, planning and implementing a set of activities to promote sharing of knowledge and experiential learning, including: idea contests, i.e. online competitions on specific topics for…

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PARTNERS

The Wine Lab project brings together a transnational consortium from 5 EU countries (Austria, Greece, Hungary, Italy and Cyprus), involving 12 experts with complementary experience and expertise, namely academic institutions with related research activities, research centres in the wine sector, wineries in disadvantaged areas and business partners specialising in communication, entrepreneurship, evaluation, and ICT solutions. Partners are meeting regularly in different cities, hosted at the premises of the different partners.

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SYNERGIES

The Wine Lab project and European partners are open to collaboration and synergies with interested stakeholders across Europe and beyond! Contact us to explore channels of cooperation.