On Wednesday, the 22nd of March, the Committee of Governance of “VINEYARDS4HEAT” met to analyze the works realized since it began the extension of the project and to foresee the activities of his final section.
The meeting was presided by the Mayor of Vilafranca, Mr. Pere Regull, and it counted among other assistants with the presence […]
The Auditorium of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Food and Environment hosted the ceremony of the award Ciudad Sostenible, which during 14 consecutive years grants the Foundation Environmental Forum, with the support of the Ministry of Environment and the collaboration of Ecoembes, as the recognition in municipalities and local community authorities in Spain who […]
In the last days they have visited the Penedès to learn about the project first-hand, a group of representatives of the zone of the Alavesa’s Rioja. In the delegation were present the President and the Director of the Winemakers’ Association of Alavesa’s Rioja (ABRA) that it groups the totality of the zone producers’, a HAZI’s […]
On the 23rd, a group of Aragonese companies organized by the CIRCE research center in the framework of the uP_running project (www.up-running.eu), working on a European program to optimize the state of the use of vegetal remains to obtain biomass, in collaboration with ASAJA Aragón, came to know first hand the project of VINEYARDS4HEAT. Among […]
From the beginning of the project we have aimed that the shoots that come from the work of pruning the vines are in the best possible conditions for fuel without any further treatment. So we purchased a machine pruning collector that is already on the ground (whether the vine layout is set in a traditional […]
In the context of the most important national wine fairs, ENOMAQ and TEECNOVID was held in Zaragoza on the 14th February, a seminar to deepen on the biomass from pruning and vines and fruit trees uprooted, organized by CIRCE and ASAJA that, through the European project “uP_runnig” studies and promotes the use of this type […]
On February 7, a delegation from Penedès, headed by the Deputy Mayor of Vilafranca, Josep Mª Martí, travelled to Villefranche-sur-Saône, capital of the Beaujolais wine-growing area to exchange experiences on the circle of the vine with the aim of moving towards making the respective wine regions more sustainable.
In the delegation of Penedès, were also present […]
On 18th January a group of technicians of Tarragona Provincial Council (where there are important wine-growing areas), as well as Mayors, Municipal Councillors and technicians from several municipalities of the area, such as Flix, Cambrils, Vandellós or El Montmell, visited the facilities of the District Heat of La Girada. The Environment Municipal Councillor, Josep Mª […]
On Friday 13th January the project VINEYARDS4HEAT was presented to Spanish, Italians and Portuguese city councils, members of the Board of Directors of the European Network of Wine Cities (RECEVIN), during their stay in Vilafranca del Penedès.
The Mayor of the town, the Environment municipal councillor and the Project Coordinator have presented to the municipal responsible […]
In recent weeks it has been signed the prolongation document of the Project with the responsible of LIFE until May 31st of this year, in order to consolidate it with the following actions:
– Carry out a second season of pruning that will allow:
Test the new version of the pre-pruning machine.
Obtain more performance data by type […]
