- Practical Report –Presentations and Discussion

- Sustainable viticulture practices, berry composition and wine quality

- Canopy management practices to improve vineyard sustainability

- Carbon footprint in the vineyard

- Grapevine varieties for a sustainable viticulture

Practical Report –Presentations and Discussion

- Organic Viticulture

- Biodynamic Viticulture

- Biodiversity conservation in vineyard landscapes

- Sustainable vineyard soil management

Holiday

Holiday

Holiday

Holiday

Study Trip to the Bairrada, Vinhos Verdes, Douro & Dão wine growing regions

Study Trip to the Bairrada, Vinhos Verdes, Douro & Dão wine growing regions

4. PRECISION VITICULTURE (to be developed by Ricardo Braga)

4.1. Introduction. The concept of precision agriculture.

4.2. Sensor-based and map-based precision viticulture.

4.3. Associated technologies

4.4. Remote sensing applied to precision viticulture

VI- Workshop on Sustainable Viticulture

-Sustainable water use in viticulture (Miguel Costa, ITQB)

- Sustainable use of pesticides in a plant protection company, a real example – INTERRA Project (Catarina Reis, Syngenta)

- Organic viticulture – A case study (Graça Gonçalves – Monte d’Oiro)

– Other tools to promote Sustainability in Viticulture (CLopes)

General Discussion

VI- Workshop on Sustainable Viticulture

- Introduction to Sustainable Viticulture (CLopes, ISA)

- Low Carbon wine – a case study in Alentejo (CLopes, ISA)

- Metrics to calculate carbon footprint in wine. (Bruno Caldeira, Consulai)

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

- Pesticide Use and Ecological Risk Assessment (Mª José Cerejeira, ISA)

V. Workshop on Grapevine Biotechnology: main applications in viticulture

- Using Molecular Biology tools to identify grapevine varieties. (JE Eiras Dias, INIAV )

-Exploring the roles of grapevine aquaporins in water and atypical substrate transport through heterologous expression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. (Farzana Sabir, ISA)

- Gene expression in grape berry cell wall under abiotic stress. (Sara Amâncio, ISA)

• General Discussion

V. Workshop on Grapevine Biotechnology: main applications in viticulture-

-Introduction. (Luisa Carvalho/Carlos Lopes, ISA)

- Using X-ray tomography in the treatment of grapevine wood diseases. (Ricardo Ferreira, ISA)

- Plant genome organization; introduction to bioinformatics; control of gene expression; epigenetics. (Leonor Morais, ISA)

- Virus-induced gene silencing for functional genomics in mature grapevine.( Patrícia Vidigal, ISA )

- Grapevine: evolution under domestication. (Margarida Rocheta, ISA)

III. Workshop on Implications of climate change for viticulture and wine production

- Thermal imaging as a tool to monitor the impact of climate change on modern viticulture (Miguel Costa)

- Climate Change & Viticulture - Adaptation measures (C. Lopes)

- Discussion

Workshop on Implications of climate change for viticulture and wine production

 - Climate Change & Viticulture: Introduction and main impacts on Viticulture (C. Lopes)

 Evaluation of climate change impacts on the viticulture using new climate indices (Ricardo Egipto)

– Evaluation of climate change impacts on viticulture using simulation models (Ricardo Braga) 

2.4. Yield control by viticultural practices.

2.4. 1. pruning level;

2.4.2.  shoot thinning;

2.4.3. shoot tipping or hedging during flowering;

2.4.4. early leaf removal;

2.4.5. spraying growth regulators;

2.4.6. inflorescence thinning;

2.4.7. berry thinning;

2.4.8. cluster thinning.

2.1. Introduction

2.2.1. Yield variability and it’s causes 

2.2.2. Advantages of Yield forecast

2.2. Yield components and the period in which they are determined. Factors affecting yield components

2.3. Main techniques for Yield forecasting

2.3.1. Aeropalynological forecast models;

2.3.2. Estimation of yield components;

2.3.3. Agrometeorological models;

2.3.4. Remote sensing;

2.3.5. Measuring trellis tension;

2.3.6.  Image Analysis

I.6- Mechanical harvest

I.7- Mechanical pruning

Introduction to Advanced Viticulture (C. Lopes)

I. Vineyard mechanization

1.1 Introduction

I.2- Mechanization of plantation

I.3- Mechanization of fertilization and soil management

I.4- Mechanization of canopy management

1.5. Vineyard spraying equipment