In recent months, significant events have taken place to promote and disseminate the IRRIGAVIT project.
On March 26, 2025, the project partners collaborated with the Interreg Europe communication offices to publish the article titled “Collaborating for water: Sustainable solutions across European borders”. The article showcased the cooperation between winegrowers on both sides of the border, aimed at sharing knowledge and technologies to improve water use efficiency in their vineyards. The article served as a prelude to the Interreg GO! – Interreg Annual Event – Implementation 2021–2027, held in Gorizia.
On March 28, 2025, Professor Paolo Sivilotti, IRRIGAVIT project coordinator, and Dr. Klemen Lisjak, former coordinator of the ACQUAVITIS project (now capitalised by IRRIGAVIT), presented both projects during the session “Building a Greener Europe through Water Resilience and Integrated Management”, as part of the event themed “A Greener Europe,” also in Gorizia.
Following the session, a study visit was organised at Villa Nachini Cabassi in Corno di Rosazzo, headquarters of the Consortium for the Protection of Friuli Colli Orientali and Ramandolo Wines, one of the “taker” partners of IRRIGAVIT. Thirty-four participants attended the presentation of activities, results, and techniques used in both projects. The visit concluded with a tasting of Pinot Grigio wines from the 2023 vintage, produced as part of the irrigation trials under different water stress conditions (moderate stress and no stress), to also assess the sensory impact of water stress on wine quality.
Still on the topic of vine water stress and its impact on grape physiology and ripening, on April 2, 2025, Professor Sivilotti hosted a free webinar organised by the prestigious journal INFOWINE – Internet Journal of Viticulture and Enology. The presentation analysed the role of water in the vine, from absorption dynamics to methods for measuring water status, using the case study of regulated deficit irrigation in Pinot Grigio. The webinar was held in collaboration with ITK and the VINTEL decision support system, a precision viticulture tool used in the project to optimise irrigation inputs and modulate grape quality.
From April 27 to May 2, 2025, researchers from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice participated in the General Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), which brought together 20,984 researchers from 120 countries. The event is a major international forum that especially supports Early Career Scientists (ECS) in presenting and discussing their work across all fields of geosciences.
The team, composed of Barbara Stenni, Giuliano Dreossi, and Mirco Peschiutta, presented a poster and abstract related to the experimental vineyard in Corno di Rosazzo owned by Cristian Specogna, an associate of the Consortium.
Abstract title:
Ecohydrological characterization of a terraced hill vineyard in Corno di Rosazzo (Italy)
Authors:
Mirco Peschiutta, Vittoria Posocco, Martina Tomasella, Lucía Nadia Biruk, Paolo Sivilotti, Giorgio Alberti, Mauro Masiol, Luca Zini, Chiara Calligaris, Giuliano Dreossi, Mirko Sodini, Klemen Lisjak, and Barbara Stenni.
