Consortium

As project coordinator, MDB TEXINOV will manage the LIFE VINOSHIELD project, with reporting to the European Commission, and of the green management.  It will participate in all WP and several tasks, mainly those that are related to technical and economic aspects and communication aspects, in close cooperation with DELTAVAL.

TEXINOV TECH will produce and install nets for tests on vines in the demonstration sites. It will lead protective nets improvements, getting feedbacks from winegrowers gathered in a dedicated club. It will have a large participation in the WP dedicated to the market uptake of protective nets, with the animation of training sessions for winegrowers, market studies and technical scale-up.

ALTAVITIS will lead the evaluation of the environmental impact of the solution, especially through the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) (Task 3.2). Thanks to data coming from all project participants, ALTAVITIS will conduct the environmental evaluation of nets impacts from their production and use to and their end-of-life. Moreover, ALTAVITIS will implement tests in Spanish vineyards. It will analyse the obtained results on vine from test campaigns, proceed to wine production of grapes from tested parcels and will analyse thereafter the wine quality. Finally, ALTAVITIS will participate to the implementation of the activities in WP1, WP3 and WP4 and 5.

UCSC will lead the assessment of the solution, regarding all effects of protection on grapevine performances and grape quality (technological and phenolic maturity, yield, vine balance, health status) and  quality of  wines obtained after experimental vinification (oenological analyses, sensory profile and aroma composition) (task 2.2 in the WP2) As part of WP2 UCSC will be in charge of the physiological characterization of grapevines subjected to innovative netting over summer. In this same work package, it will also (i) participate to the implementation of the demonstrative tests in Italian vineyards, (ii) analyse the results over several test campaigns, (iii) make experimental wines from grapes deriving from test parcels, and (iv) will analyse the wine quality. UCSC will also be the lead partner for the task 5.2 dedicated to all the replication activities. It is important to note that UCSC has an extensive expertise in European projects as coordinator and participants. It also has dedicated an efficient team to work on the LIFEVINOSHIELD project that gathers the right expertise needed to implement the tasks UCSC is part of such as Viticulture and plant physiology experts and eonology and sensory analysis experts.

FUTERRO will supply PLA to TEXINOV and thread manufacturer to produce melt blown and thread respectively. Thus, TEXINOV will be able to produce anti-frost textiles for cold season tests. After use on vineyards, FUTERRO will proceed to nets recycling with its own chemical recycling, to get lactic acid. It will validate the effectiveness of this technology at lab scale (scale of few hundred grams up to 1 kg). This validation, whether for the hydrolysis route or the esterification route, will assess the impact of additives/impurities on the dissolution, depolymerization and purification steps. Once lab scale effectiveness in optimized conditions will be done, FUTERRO will implement recycling of PLA produced nets to pilot scale determining optimized conditions and technical feasibility, by a characterization of lactic acid quality. Finally, FUTERRO will demonstrate that the lactic acid obtained from chemical recycling makes it possible to obtain qualified PLA. It will carry out the polymerization of the lactic acid samples obtained in the previous tasks at lab scale and will characterize the obtained-PLA and compare it with the characteristics of virgin PLA.

IFV will be the lead partner for the task 2.3 test on grapes, vinification and wine tests (WP 2) and will participate to all the others work packages.  IFV will manage tests on vine with protocol adjustments and tests campaigns on the three countries in close collaboration with ALTAVITIS, UCSC and INSA LYON. It will ensure that all scientific approach is the same on all tested parcels with relevant and efficient measurements and observations. IFV will analyse for French vineyards the obtained results on vine from test campaigns, proceed to wine production of grapes from tested parcels and will analyse thereafter the wine quality.

INSA LYON will be involved mainly in the WP 2 dedicated on the demonstration tests and improvement of the protective nets on tasks 2.1, 2.2 and 2.4). It will also participate to dissemination and communication activities (WP4) and and project management (WP1).  INSA LYON will be involved with IFV in the choice and design of sensors that will be used to measure environmental parameters during tests campaigns on vineyards, especially to study frost during the cold season. It will analyse the results concerning frost, to get a better understanding of local micro-meteorological parameters to distinguish between radiative and convective frost. Analysis of results will aim also to understand which parameters have the most important influence on performance of solutions: material properties, geometric parameters, duration of the solution deployment. Therefore, analysing measurement results and identifying trends for solution improvements require a simplified modelling of thermal and radiative transfers to assess sensitivity to material properties, geometric parameters, and environmental conditions.

VINIDEA will oversee WP4 dedicated to Communication and Dissemination activities. It will lead most communication actions and will establish the communication plan and kit in the beginning of the project.