Produced locally and traded worldwide, the wine sector has always placed a strong emphasis on geographic provenance and cultivated Vitis specie as a means of expressing quality and authenticity. With contemporary climate change, both origin and variety are at risk, where winegrowers should adjust their decision making from production to distribution. As this need has become a priority in France, the SWICC project aims to provide knowledge and then recommendations in order to sustain the local identity of wines in a global changing climate. The first research area concerns if climate change resilience can be enhanced through intra-varietal diversification? Working closely with French and international partners, a comprehensive database will be created and analysed to offer scientific evidence concerning the phenotypic variation and plasticity of two French varieties. Combining historical and collected data with phenological and climate modelling approaches, project findings will reflect the adaptive potential of clonal diversification to enhance the resilience of wine systems linked to a terroir. The second research area examines if the climate analogue approach could be a more effective tool for impact projections and adaptation planning? Using collected qualitative data from local stakeholders in warmer and drier climates, French winegrowers can benefit from such scientific and technical advances. In addition to insights on sensory diversification, these research tools should offer French winegrowers more willingness to embrace innovation and preparedness for uncertain climate outcomes. The SWICC project has the overall goal to transfer and disseminate project findings to relevant stakeholders, policy makers and the larger scientific committee, as sustaining local wine identity in a global changing climate is a major environmental issue facing all wine growing regions.

HORTIFOODTRENDS is a project under which Instytut Ogrodnictwa – Państwowy Instytut Badawczy (InHort) will establish and implement into its practice a long-lasting, interdisciplinary collaboration network with high profile European partners: Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Association Groupe ESA (GROUPE ESA) and Centre de recherche de l'Institut Lyfe (LYFE), in the field of novel food product development, considering the needs of the end-user (consumers and food processing sector), with an approach defined as the Living Lab formula. In accordance with the InHort competence, traditionally strongly linked with horticultural producers and the postharvest management of horticultural commodities, the project effort will focus on creating health-promoting novel foods by using emerging processing techniques dedicated to fruit and vegetable preservation. Obtaining appropriate competences to carry out work in the consumer-oriented formula, and in particular using the Living Lab approach, will provide InHort with a unique tool to enhance the knowledge transfer into the agri-food sector. Cooperation of food technologists (technological knowledge aimed at maintaining the health-promoting properties of processed raw materials) with specialists in the field of consumer sciences (knowledge of communicating with consumers) contrasting with consumers’ needs and preferences as well as market and economic conditions articulated by entrepreneurs (work in the Living Lab formula ), is expected to substantially increase the likelihood of delivering innovative nutritionally and sensory valuable products to the HortiFood market. Thus, a conscious consumer, in line with the idea of the EU strategy "From farm to Fork", will have better access to high-quality food products produced using current, environmentally friendly modern processing technologies. Besides, within HORTIFOODTRENDS activity strengthening research management capacities and administrative skills are foreseen.

Project Context :This project is the result of a request made in 2014 by a dairy company operating in emerging countries that has a problem training its European dairy technicians to work in these countries. Dairy processing is always undertaken locally in factories located near the raw material supply areas . In order to assure optimal production dairy companies are obliged to organize their mild collection in a manner that guarantees regular supply in both quantity and quality. Their technicians are European-trained, thus their technical reference points ( in terms of herd management, nutrition..) cultural references ( work organization, animal welfare..) are often not in sync with those in emerging countries where the conditions for animal husbandry and the technical-economic results are very different from European standards.ESA was contacted about this company issue and saw that a “Strategic Partnership” could be an appropriate tool to develop a training program to respond to this need. Objectives:The objectives are two-fold: Firstly, to create a one-month training module, preceded by a refresher course offered through distance learning, to a public destined to work as dairy technicians in emerging countries ; Secondly, to generate a pool of young European graduates available to work in international companies in the dairy sector. Number and profiles of the participating organizations:The project integrated the 4 following partners:- L’ESA: a Higher Education Institution ( HEI) in Agriculture based in Angers, France. Project coordinator.- CAH Dronton; HEI in Agricultural based in Dronton, based in The Netherlands- USAMV, HEI in Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine based in Bucharest , Romania.- Groupe Lactalis; a major European dairy company, implanted in 85 countries , including emerging countries where milk collection has to be organized. Description of principal activities put in place :A survey to establish the competences required by companies working in emerging countiesA mission to Kazakhstan in analyze its dairy sector in order to build a real-life case study. ( Mission not financed by the project but by Lactalis) The creation of an on-line animal science and economic management refresher course The creation of a four-week module taught in-houseThe teaching of this moduleThe creation of a 6 – language lexicon ( written and oral) in technical vocabulary3 dissemination events + participation in a scientific conference (Rabat, Morrocco)The administrative and pedagogical coordination of the projectResults and impacts achieved:The refresher module in animal science and economic management was created and put on lineThe two in-house training modules were run in January 2017 and January 2017 and attended by 43 students of 6 nationalities – XXX of whom validated the 10ECTS. To permit the module creation a survey was undertaken of 16 European companies in three countries in order to define the competencies they required for technicians working in emerging countries. 4 project team members effected a one-week study visit in Kazakhstan in order to create a case studyThe 6 language written and audio language lexicon of technical vocabulary was created and put on line. (French, English, Rumanian, Dutch, Russian and Brazilian) The partner company offered 2 internships during the programThe distance – learning module will be used by the project partners in the future. The one-month in house module will be integrated into a final year semester in ESA and iin a minor in CAHThe 3 HEI network was reinforced thanks to this project and has led to new cooperation: the opening of a joint bachelor between CAH and ESA in local food products in January 2017 . Thanks to the contact established during the Kazakh mission ESA Kazakh partner universities are now sending students to this bachelor program under an ICM program. This ICM is also a direct consequence of LADMEC.European dairy companies now have a pool of 43 young graduates from which to recruit technicians trained to give technical advice in merging countries. The training module was conceived in a way that allows its methodology to be transferred to other agricultural sectors – assuring the raw material supply for vegetable factories, for example. Eventual long-term benefits:The cooperation between the 3 partners HEIs has been endurably reinforced. Companies in three countries have been educated in mission and functioning of Erasmus+The pool of 43 program graduates will serve the long-term development of European companies in emerging countries.

"European agriculture faces many challenges, including producing food and non-food products in sufficient quantity and quality and creating added value for farmers and actors in the food chain, while reducing agriculture's impact on the environment. Agroecology, defined as ""the study of the interactions between plants, animals, humans and the environment within agricultural systems"", is considered a highly relevant option for reorienting European agriculture to meet these major challenges.However, the education provided in European universities is not yet fully adapted to train current and future agricultural professionals in agroecology. In particular, multidisciplinary approaches are not well developed in existing curricula. Moreover, current teaching methods often lack the interactive and digital dimensions that are promising learning methods. Innovative tools are therefore urgently needed to help university teachers provide high quality and attractive multidisciplinary training on agroecology to agricultural students and professionals.The SEGAE project therefore aims to facilitate a multidisciplinary and systemic understanding of agroecology for secondary and higher education students and agricultural professionals through the development of a digital training tool. To achieve this objective, we have brought together a consortium of six European universities: University of Liège (BE), Agrocampus Ouest (FR), Groupe ESA (FR), Oniris (FR), Agricultural University of Krakow (PL) and University of Bologna (IT).This tool takes the form of a serious game, i.e. a computer simulation game that helps players to understand in concrete terms how to implement agroecology on a farm. In concrete terms, the player manages a virtual farm combining crops and dairy cattle breeding, where she/he can implement and evaluate the impacts of agricultural practices on indicators related to the environmental, economic and social sustainability of her/his farm. She/He can make her/his choices on aspects as varied as the choice of cattle breed, animal feed ration, choice of crops, tillage method, etc. And see directly and over time the impact of her/his choices on the various indicators. Four European farm types are proposed by default: French, Italian, Belgian and Polish.The game is aimed at teachers at universities and agricultural schools, as well as agricultural advisers in continuing education. Several pedagogical objectives can be achieved with the game: understanding the effects of different agroecological practices, global analysis of the farm, management of agroecological transitions. In addition, a scenario editor allows teachers to develop their own tailor-made pedagogical scenarios, thus meeting different learning objectives and reaching different audiences. The game is accompanied by video tutorials and a pedagogical platform that includes a teaching guide for teachers, turnkey exercise sheets, as well as lessons on the different dimensions of agroecology addressed in the game. The game, the tutorial and the teaching tools are freely available in 6 languages (English, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Polish).In the framework of the project, more than 800 students have used the game. A training session involving 51 students demonstrated the educational interest of the game and resulted in a scientific publication (Jouan et al., 2020). Nearly 700 teachers, researchers and higher and technical education staff also received information or training on the game. Finally, more than 4,800 people have used the game since it went online.We hope that this serious game will help train high school and university students as well as agricultural professionals to contribute to the agroecological transition of European agriculture."

The aim of the research project GIngKo is to analyze, using the boundary concept of “knowledge commons” as developed by Hess and Ostrom (2007), the potential role of Geographical Indications (GIs) as a lever for action in fostering agro ecological transitions, identify existing limitations and obstacles at different territorial and landscape scales, and assess current strategies (de/re/re-de-re)-territorializing, as well as the logic of specialization/diversification towards more sustainable agri-food systems. Adopting a comparative and inter/transdisciplinary approach, the analysis will especially emphasize: i) the nature and diversity of strategies of agro-ecological transitions adopted by GI’s systems in France, as well as their implications in terms of knowledge codification, collective learning and R&D strategies, ii) the changes in regulatory mechanisms and models of collective action observed in France since a decade ; iii) mirror these evolutions with current trends in other European countries and in other continents worldwide.