Green Vineyards: skills development for wine industry personnel: responding to the challenges of climate change
Abstract
A fair and sustainable society, with a modern, resource-efficient and competitive economy cannot be achieved without a workforce to support it. That is why it is necessary to prepare the workforce for the skills demanded by green jobs and to ensure that industries and workplaces do not face a shortage of adequately skilled workers. Environmental competences are essential for the winery’s workforce and surrounding society, in order to ensure a positive ecological footprint of their day-to-day activities carried out in this farming sector. Upskilling is, therefore, a must. The aim of ‘GREEN VINEYARDS’ project is to raise the knowledge, skills and aptitudes of workers in the wine sector, addressing the challenges of climate change. To achieve that objective, the GREEN VINEYARDS’ project – co-funded by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union – has defined the competencies necessary to ensure the sustainability of the activities carried out in wineries and vineyards, including the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to work in a sustainable economy. To facilitate the acquisition of these skills by workers, an online training course has been developed in six languages, open to all the European industry and freely accessible 24 hours a day, at www.greenvineyards.eu.
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Publication date: September 22, 2025
Issue: 46th World Congress of Vine and Wine
Type: Short communication
Authors
1 Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin, 210 bd V. Vermorel, CS 60320, 69661 Villefranche-sur-Saône, France
2 Institut Français de la Vigne et du Vin, 12, rue Sainte Anne, 75001 Paris, France