About the Project
Sustain Vitis is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Industrial Doctoral Network coordinated by Fondazione Edmund Mach in Italy, bringing together seven beneficiaries and fourteen associated partners from six countries. It sets out to strengthen the sustainability of the wine value chain by training fifteen doctoral candidates at the interface between academic research and industry.
The work is structured around four axes: advanced grapevine breeding and gene editing, precision viticulture and agroecology, sulphite-free and alcohol-free winemaking together with alternative packaging, and reduction of the environmental footprint. Aligned with the Farm to Fork strategy of the European Green Deal, the project combines hands-on training with intersectoral secondments, to prepare a new generation of professionals for sustainable viticulture and winemaking.
