Wine industry: Innovative development for sustainability management launched

The aim of the project is to develop the first freely accessible and digital sustainability management platform for the German wine industry

05-Jun-2024

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sustainability is to be completely rethought in the German wine industry: As part of the project "Transformations in Baden-Württemberg viticulture: climate change, digitalization and sustainability" (KliDiNa) of the European Innovation Partnership (EIP-Agri), a network of researchers from Heilbronn University and the German Institute for Sustainable Development (DINE e.V.) is developing solutions on the topic of sustainability and sustainability assessment. To this end, they are cooperating with practitioners from wineries and winegrowers' cooperatives as well as representatives of the winegrowing associations from Baden and Württemberg and the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative Association for the German wine industry.

Thinking about tomorrow today

While individual wineries have already been working steadily for many years to achieve environmental, economic and social goals in their businesses, others still need to be sensitized to a more sustainable way of doing business and to identify concrete potential for optimization. The German Institute for Sustainable Development (DINE e.V.) took up the issue of sustainability around 15 years ago and developed the first sustainability criteria for the German wine industry together with professors and scientists from Heilbronn University. Since then, the criteria have been incorporated into a scientifically based sustainability management program called 'FairChoice' to make sustainability measurable and comparable, create transparency and increase awareness and understanding of sustainability.

Independent environmental auditors monitor compliance with the criteria. The FairChoice seal has thus stood for verified sustainable wine production for years.
As part of the current EIP-Agri project "KliDiNa", this sustainability management system is now being digitalized, modernized and revised. In future, businesses participating in the sustainability program will not only be able to record all data and evidence digitally, but will also be able to evaluate, manage and audit the sustainability of their business even more easily.
The special feature: in future, not only businesses participating in the sustainability program will have access to the digital FairChoice platform, but also all businesses that want to deal with the topic of sustainability. They can click through the criteria catalog free of charge and without obligation. If they wish, they can enter their company data and receive a free sustainability assessment based on the FairChoice criteria.

Low threshold to promote sustainability awareness - this is the task the KliDiNa team has set itself and is looking forward to working on this innovative project until December 2024. The digital sustainability management platform/FairChoice platform should be accessible online for all farms by the end of the project period at the latest.

Funding

The project is funded as part of the European Innovation Partnership "Agricultural Productivity and Sustainability" (EIP-AGRI). The funding measure is part of the Rural Development Plan for Baden-Württemberg 2014-2020 (MEPL III) with a term of 2014-2022 with funds from the European Union Recovery Instrument (EURI) to support the recovery after the COVID-19 crisis.

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