NEWS

Last Monday, April 20, 2026, the creation of the Wine Innovation Collaboration Alliance (WICA) was officially formalized, marking a strategic milestone for the future of the European and international wine sector. This new alliance was established with the aim of strengthening innovation, collaboration, and internationalization across the wine value chain.

Last Friday, April 10th, 2026, the INNOVI General Assembly was held, an annual meeting for all member companies and organizations. The event took place at the Gramona facilities, in a highly privileged and emblematic setting within the wine sector.

La reunió inaugural del projecte LIGAWINE (Low Input Grapegrowing and Winemaking) es va celebrar els dies 30 i 31 d’octubre de 2025 a Bordeus, França. Finançat pel programa Interregional Innovation Investments (I3), aquest projecte, amb una durada de 39 mesos, té com a objectiu impulsar el sector vitivinícola cap a pràctiques sostenibles, innovadores i econòmicament resilients a tot Europa.

Eloi Montcada, Clúster Manager of INNOVI, shares in an interview for Wineimprove, a partner of INNOVI, his vision on how these technologies can contribute to transforming the wine value chain and help companies to be more competitive, efficient and prepared to face current and future challenges.

Agroforestry and rural SMEs across Europe face an increasingly complex context, marked by rising energy costs, market uncertainty and growing pressure to move towards decarbonisation

La cinquena edició de la Wine Innovation Week, impulsada per INNOVI , reuneix el sector durant tres dies per mostrar aplicacions reals d’IA al camp,  al celler i en la relació amb el consumidor.

The LOBESIA project, focused on controlling the grapevine moth pest (Lobesia botrana), has already started to generate relevant results that help better understand why, in certain wine-growing areas, conventional control systems based on mating disruption have lost effectiveness

El projecte Nous Destil·lats Tradicionals Catalans de Brisa (BRISA), es consolida com una iniciativa pionera en la recuperació i reinterpretació del patrimoni dels aiguardents catalans, combinant tradició i innovació per generar nous productes d’alt valor afegit. El projecte aposta per la valorització de subproductes del sector vitivinícola, com la brisa i la vinassa, en una clara estratègia d’economia circular.

The DRONVINYA: Drones and vineyard health project continues to make progress, delivering promising results in validating the use of drones for applying phytosanitary treatments in viticulture.

From January 26 to 30, INNOVI has co-organized a business mission to China with the aim of analyzing, from a strategic perspective, how major technological changes are redefining industrial and market models on a global scale, and what implications they may have for the Catalan wine sector.