Clim4Vitis

Clim4Vitis is a three-year Horizon 2020 project funded by the European Union Research and Innovation programme.

A Consortium for Viticulture in Europe

The Clim4Vitis project (Climate change impact mitigation for European viticulture: knowledge transfer for an integrated approach) is specifically focused on the topic of climate change and its potential impacts on European viticulture, giving particular attention to two main lines of research:

• Grapevine modelling
• Methods and tools for assessing climate change impacts on European viticulture

Clim4Vitis is coordinated by Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD) (Portugal), with the support of Potsdam Institut fuer Klimafolgenforschung (PIK) (Germany), Universita degli studi di Firenze (UNIFI) (Italy), Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) (Luxembourg) and Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação (SPI) (Portugal).

Partnership

Clim4Vitis started in September 2018. It involves researchers from 5 institutions:

• Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro – UTAD, Portugal (coordinator institution)
• Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research – PIK, Germany
• University Degli Studi di Firenze – UniFi, Italy
• Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology – LIST, Luxembourg
• Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovação – SPI, Portugal

Foundations for Long-term Sustainability

The Luxembourg Institute of Science of Technology (LIST) leads the Work-Package 4: Foundations for Long-term Sustainability. This will be the key to planning and ensuring the future sustainability of the Clim4Vitis partnership, defining the details of future joint collaboration beyond the project and of the ways to exploit project outcomes. Such long-term sustainability will guarantee the continued enhancement of the partnership capacity, and thus the long-term impacts of Clim4Vitis.