VI- SUSTAINABLE VITICULTURE (CONC.)

18 Dezembro 2025, 08:30 • Carlos Manuel Antunes Lopes

Discussion of the Practical Reports: 

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VI- SUSTAINABLE VITICULTURE (CONT.)

11 Dezembro 2025, 08:30 • Carlos Manuel Antunes Lopes

Presentation of the Practical Reports by the students:

-Biodynamic Viticuture

-Regenerative Viticulture

-Agroforestry in Viticulture

-Sustainable Viticulture Practices: effects on berry composition

-Alternatives to the use of herbicides in Viticulture

- Economic & Social sustainability in Viticulture

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Workshop on Grapevine Biotechnology: Main applications in viticulture

4 Dezembro 2025, 08:30 • Luísa Ferreira de Carvalho

Workshop on Grapevine Biotechnology: Main applications in viticulture

Introduction to biotechnology in grapevine.

Applications of genomics to grapevine:

Grapevine genome

Biotechnology in Grapevine: gene technologies; applications to aromas and flavours, to disease control and to abiotic stress tolerance.

Invited lectures:

Non-conventional approaches to solve recalcitrant grapevine problems. Ricardo Ferreira, ISA

Grapevine aquaporins: understanding the water, glycerol and atypical substrates transport in Vitis vinifera through heterologous expression in a aqy-null Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain. Farzana Sabir, ISA

Using Molecular Biology tools to Identify and Study Phylogeny of Grapevine Varieties. Jorge Cunha, Unidade de Investigação de Viticultura e Enologia, INIAV.

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IV. PRECISION VITICULTURE

27 Novembro 2025, 08:30 • Carlos Manuel Antunes Lopes

4.1. Introduction - main concepts

4.2. Technologies and Applications in Precision Viticulture

4.2.1. Global positioning system (GPS)

4.2.2. Geographical Information Systems (GIS);

4.2.3. Remote sensing;

4.2.4. Proximal sensing;

4.2.5. Variable Rate Technology (VRT);

4.2.6. Platforms used to carry the sensors.

4.2.7. Other Ground Robots in Viticulture

4.3. Applications of PV - case studies (invited speakers) workshop and field demonstrations

- FAIR DATA for Viticulture – (Rui Figueira, ISA) 

- Remote Sensing (Vasco Pimenta Spinworks)

- Yield estimation using image analysis (G. Victorino, ISA);

- Field demonstrations of sensors network and robot

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VI- WORKSHOP ON SUSTAINABLE VITICULTURE

20 Novembro 2025, 08:30 • Carlos Manuel Antunes Lopes

- Sustainable water use in viticulture and wine production (M. Costa);

- Biodynamic Viticulture - case study at Cortes de Cima, Alentejo (Sandra Coelho)

- Sustainable use of pesticides in viticulture: copping with the EU targets by 2030 (M. Cachão, AVIPE)

- Wines of Alentejo Sustainability Plan (WASP) João Barroso (CVRA)

Round Table on “Sustainable Viticulture: alternatives to conventional Viticulture”. Invited Participants: João Barroso (CVRA); Ana Chambell, AVIPE (AVIP), Sandra Coelho (Cortes de Cima); Miguel Costa (ISA)

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