The importance of transferring innovation about NGTs and IPM in an accessible way to producers and winegrowers.

One of the great challenges faced by innovation is ensuring that the knowledge generated and results of R&D projects reach the target public. Currently, the context in which Europe is moving with the European Green Pact forces sectors to seek strategies for adapting to these regulations. Specifically, the 50% reduction in phytosanitary products and pesticides by 2030 highlights the need for a greater transfer of ways to achieve these objectives.

Therefore, through the GrapeBreed4IPM project and its training and capacity building actions, the aim is to bring this knowledge and innovation to small winegrowers, producers and farmers in the main countries involved (Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Serbia), promoting the dissemination of all results and advances achieved in the project in a way accessible to them. To this end, 10 workshops will be organised (2 for each country) related to plant material and vineyard management, as well as oenology and marketing of Disease Resistant Varieties (DRVs). The workshops will be conducted in the native language of the wine region, to transfer information in the most accessible way possible to the target audience.

All this information, graphic resources, didactic material, etc. will be uploaded to a Capacity-Building Website created within the project and independent of the project web page (but linked), which will serve as a repository of the training actions carried out in each country, as well as information on actions in other similar projects, so that this can be used as a basis for the project.

We should not forget how the EC promotes the transformation of this scientific knowledge into applicable strategies for the productive sector as well as to generate economic and social benefits, like R&D funding programmes (Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and/or Structural and Concession Funds) and platforms for knowledge and innovation collection, such as:

• EU CAP Network: promotes implementation of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) through exchange of knowledge, good practices, innovation, and cooperation between actors in the agri-food and rural sector.

• EIP-AGRI (European Innovation Partnership for Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability): focused on agricultural innovation and sustainability, connecting farmers, researchers, advisors, and businesses to foster innovation. Fully aligned to the EU CAP Network.