Green Wine
19 - 20 MAY, VERONA

The Spoke 7 of the Ecosystem i-NEST, under the leadership of the Department of Biotechnology of University of Verona, is organizing the International Scientific Congress GreenWINE in collaboration with VINIDEA.



The Congress
Topics
GreenWINE welcomes contributions from multidisciplinary research in sustainability for the wine sector, covering the areas of viticulture, enology, plant pathology, soil science and other scientific branches such as engineering, informatics, economics, social sciences, etc., concurring to address the main challenges faced by the global grape and wine industry:
CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE
Limit the impact of drought, extreme meteorological events, heat waves; prevent and manage wine unbalanced composition, microbial contamination, product instability, etc.
LOW INPUT AND GREEN PRODUCTION
Reduce the use of fertilizers, pesticides, wine preservatives; by-products and waste recovery and up-cycling; fuel, energy and water consumption; robotics and sensing technologies; sustainable packaging, storage and delivery, etc.
SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
Match market trends and production costs, personnel availability, regulatory obligations, etc.; Sustainable business model; corporate social responsibility and corporate sustainability; Environmental and social performance measurement;
Sustainable supply chain management; sustainable and circular products; consumer practices; upcycled food; digitalization, traceability, decarbonization.
Opportunities for Scientific Publication
- Up to ten papers will be proposed to the Editorial Committee for publication in Open Access form in OENO One, edited by IVES;
- Up to ten papers will be proposed for publication in Open Access form in a Special Issue of Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research;
- All abstracts can be published, on author’s request, in the Conference Series edited by IVES – with or without DOIs.
Opportunities for visibility in the wine industry
- Up to ten papers of the most applicative oral presentations will be proposed by the Organizing Committee to the IVES Editorial Committee for translation and publication in Technical Reviews;
- All full papers and all posters can be published, on author’s request, in INFOWINE (Internet Journal of Viticulture and Enology), a non-reviewed journal which reaches 400,000 global professional stakeholders;
- Oral presentations will be recorded and published – with the author’s consent – on Infowine/Vinidea web repositories, potentially with thousands of views over years;
- The most application-oriented contributions will be included as oral presentation in the program of the ENOFORUM Technical Conference;
- All posters will be displayed throughout the duration of the ENOFORUM Technical Conference.
Program
To foster interaction between research and production, GreenWINE will be held immediately before ENOFORUM 2025, which takes place at the same venue.

Scientific Congress
Mon May 19th;
Tue May 20th.
Technical Conference
Wed May 21st;
Thu May 22nd;
Fri May 23rd.
Congress venue
The reception desk is on the right when you come down the stairs, in the basement of the PalaExpo.
The GreenWINE oral presentations will be given in Auditorium Verdi.
The posters will be displayed in a space below the entrance stairs.
See the preliminary programme
Keynote Speakers
Giulia Sofia
Ce.Sp.I.I. Irrigation Research Center
Luis Gonzaga Santesteban
Public University of Navarre
Sergi Astals
University of Barcelona
Simone Loose
Geisenheim University
Liz Waters
Wine Australia
Raul Morais Dos Santos
UTAD’s School of Sciences and Technology
Speakers
Roberto Salvatore Di Fede
University of Naples Federico II
Davide Bianchi
University of Milan
Ron Shmuleviz
University of Verona
Andrea Pitacco
University of Padova
Dominik Durner
Weincampus Neustadt
Leonardo Cei
University of Padova
Maria Nikolantonaki
UMR PAM, University of Burgundy
Sara Migliorini University of Verona
Silvia Motta
Council for Agricultural Research and Economics
Fabio Chinnici
University of Bologna
Registration
Registration for the GreenWINE congress will close on May 9, 2025.
Early registration fees available until April 24, 2025 are:
• €353.80 (VAT incl.) for the GreenWINE Congress, including a free pass to the ENOFORUM conference.
• €433.10 (VAT incl.) for the GreenWINE Congress, including a free pass to the ENOFORUM conference and the Tuesday evening social dinner.
The event is part of the training programme for Agronomists and Foresters; in order to obtain recognition, the Certificate of Participation must be presented to the relevant office of affiliation. The Certificate of Participation will be issued on request by writing to iscrizioni@vinidea.it
Fee reductions are available for researchers affiliated with the Spoke7 entities of the i-NEST consortium (please indicate your institution in the ‘order notes’ field):
€292.80 (VAT incl.) for the GreenWINE Congress, including a free pass to the ENOFORUM conference.
€372.10 (VAT incl.) for the GreenWINE Congress, including a free pass to the ENOFORUM conference and the Tuesday evening social dinner.
Extra-EU scientists attending GreenWINE online will have access to a discounted fee.
For more details, please contact us at iscrizioni[@]vinidea.it.
From 25 April, registration fees will be as follows:
- €475.80 for the GreenWINE Congress, including a free pass to the ENOFORUM conference.
- €591.70 for the GreenWINE Congress, including a free pass to the ENOFORUM conference and the Tuesday evening social dinner.
For researchers affiliated with the Spoke7 entities of the i-NEST consortium:
- €414.80 for the GreenWINE Congress, including a free pass to the ENOFORUM conference.
- €530.70 for the GreenWINE Congress, including a free pass to the ENOFORUM conference and the Tuesday evening social dinner.
Call for Abstracts
Commitees
Scientific Committee
President:
Maurizio Ugliano, University of Verona.
Representatives of leading scientific institutions worldwide.
Organizing Committee
University of Verona and i-NEST Spoke 7 researchers.
Executive Staff
Gianni Trioli, VINIDEA;
Ekaterina Kleshcheva, VINIDEA;
Michela Mozzanica, VINIDEA.
Scientists worldwide, whose activity is carried out in public research centers, are invited to submit one or more abstracts related to the above topics.
Abstracts may be submitted for either oral communications or poster presentations. The mode of presentation will be defined by an International Scientific Committee, composed of scientists of recognized authority in various subjects.
Oral Communications
The Abstracts for Oral Communications must be submitted through the online form accessible through this link by January 10, 2025 – deadline extended till February 20, 2025.
Extra-EU scientists will have the possibility to present oral contributions and to attend the congress in video-conference mode.
Posters
The same online form can be used for poster abstracts. The submission deadline for Posters is April 11, 2025.
At least one author of each oral or poster presentation must register for the Scientific Congress.
How to be speaker at Enoforum 2025
The program of the Technical Conference ENOFORUM will include several oral communications by Italian and Foreign scientists, chosen by the organization among those who have answered to the Call for Abstract of GreenWINE.
These contributions will be the most applicative (TRL>6) among the orals or posters that receive the best scores by the Scientific Committee of GreenWINE.
Information
GreenWINE will take place at Veronafiere Congress Centre in the beautiful city of Verona, Italy, famous for its wine and history, and easily accessible by plane and train from all over Europe.
For more information: greenwine@enoforum.eu.