R&D Projects
The REDWine project will demonstrate the technical, economic and environmental feasibility of reducing CO2 emissions produced in the wine industry value chain by at least 31% through the use of CO2 from biogenic fermentation for the production of microalgae biomass.
The overall objective of SHIELD4GRAPE (S4G) is to implement sustainable agroecological approaches that contribute to improving the resilience of wine-based agri-food systems against diseases and pests in a context of climate change.
AGRARIAN will feature an agile and secure hybrid communications emulated infrastructure (TRL 4-5), incorporating satellite/terrestrial communication technologies (5G, LTE, etc.), IoT infrastructure, cloud computing, and large-scale data processing with AI/ML capabilities. This environment will enable the development of tools and applications for agriculture, improving operational efficiency through real-time data processing and offering a dynamic programming environment for developers and stakeholders, creating a holistic Agricultural Decision Support System (ADSS). To further explore innovation, AGRARIAN will provide financial support to third parties, encouraging the development and validation of applications and tools within AGRARIAN and fostering a new, dynamic ecosystem.
The SmartProduce project arises from the needs identified by the project partners to develop a simple, efficient, integrated, and functional intelligent decision-support system for agricultural management. The solutions currently available on the market do not meet many of the required criteria, particularly intelligent decision-support systems that integrate automated collection of agroclimatic field data with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence algorithms tailored for automated alerts, optimization, and agricultural production forecasting.
Completed projects
The COMPOSE PLUS project addresses the challenge of increasing the share of renewable energy in rural, island, and Mediterranean areas. The project is based on the use of a developed tool that will be adopted and transferred to stakeholders, thus empowering them to absorb EU and cohesion funds in the energy sector. Stakeholder engagement will be achieved through training courses developed in light of the analysis of stakeholder needs and the new EU financial frameworks.
The embrace project aims to integrate Circular Economy principles into SMEs and organizations in the wine and agri-food sectors in the MED area, addressing the common challenges faced by SMEs across the MED area. The main objective of embrace is to support the innovation process in the MED area in accordance with the Circular Economy principle, leveraging methods and instruments through an innovative toolkit, which will be delivered through service providers.
SusMedHouse aims to develop an automated and sustainable greenhouse to produce high-quality crops, using advanced technology and a precision agriculture vision. The demonstration will be held in a greenhouse divided into four sectors, which will also be divided into subsections: conventional, conventional with solar panels, aquaponics, and hydroponics.
The aim of this initiative is to contribute to the sustainable intensification of winemaking in Portugal, through technological innovation, focused on the mechanization of pruning of wine vines and the increase in the organic matter content of the soil, which will allow the production of "wines from grapes with a low Ecological Footprint and Zero Carbon".
The REVINE project, through a combination of new knowledge acquired from physiology, pathology and genomics, together with innovative applications in agronomic and breeding processes, aims to prove that the application of regenerative agriculture practices on farms in the Mediterranean area is capable of preserving water resources and soil fertility.
This project (divided into three subprojects: 1. Prospecting and Conservation; 2. Utilization of Diversity; 3. Training and Communication) focuses on conservation, the most pressing objective in the area of intravarietal diversity (due to the intense genetic erosion it is currently subject to). Its implementation primarily seeks to achieve the goal of 50,000 conserved genotypes, a theoretically sound goal that is well ahead of those of the largest wine-producing countries in Mediterranean Europe.
