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VIVA PROGRAM

VIVA is the program by the Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security which since 2011 has been promoting the sustainability of the Italian wine sector. VIVA provides for the public standard in measuring and improving the sustainability performance of viticulture in Italy. Over the last years hundreds of companies joined the Program – both individually and through wineries and consortia – and the number is constantly growing:

201

farms

of which

15

cooperative

10.530

total companies

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

TECHNICAL

ADVISORY BODY

Il comitato scientifico è l’organo tecnico-consultivo del programma VIVA e si avvale di funzionari di ricerca (officers) che gestiscono e attuano il programma.
Il comitato scientifico è costituito da esperti di sostenibilità, scelti sulla base dell’eccellenza scientifica e della competenza operativa verificabile attraverso la produzione scientifica qualificata con gli indicatori riconosciuti a livello internazionale (ISI). Members do not have indefinite tenure but remain in office as long as they carry out research activities functional to the program and participate actively. This ensures strong turnover, inclusion and involvement of the interdisciplinary scientific community, responsiveness to needs, innovation, and cultural and scientific renewal. Representation to disciplinary scientific societies, corporations is not an elective title for participation in the VIVA Scientific Committee. All members have no personal financial conflicts of interest.
Scientific coordination is carried out through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research centres. From 2012 to 2015, coordination was carried out by the AGROINNOVA Research Center of the University of Torino and the OPERA Research Center of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Piacenza; since 2016, scientific coordination has been carried out by the OPERA Research Center.

ACTIVITIES

ACHIEVEMENTS

AND RESEARCH

  • Implementation of research projects complementary to program functionality;
  • Organization/participation in professional training programs (training courses, stages);
  • Formation of public-private partnerships for research projects in PSR. LIFE, Horizon2020 and other public and private calls for proposals;
  • Updating VIVA specifications based on the state of the art of research and sustainable development at national and international levels;
  • Updating of VIVA software;
  • Realization of conferences, workshops, e-learning;
  • Networking with other agronomic and oenological working groups;
  • Involvement of stakeholders (consumers, producers, distributors, public administrators);
  • Making of communication and information programs guidelines.

VIVA Scientific Committee members

The VIVA Scientific Committee consists of coordinators, permanent members and associate members. Permanent members serve 4-year terms, associate members depending on their activities and projects.

COORDINATORS

PhD – Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, environmental and food risk assessment expert, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

PhD – Researcher and Chemistry teacher, expert on sustainability indicators and agricultural production life cycle analysis, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

PhD, expert in the field of sustainability of agri-food supply chains, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security

ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

Research projects manager, VIVA indicators and the calculation platform

Expert in impact assessment and environmental certification, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security – AT Sogesid.

Expert in Green Public Procurement and environmental system and product certifications, Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security – AT Sogesid

Environmental engineer and PhD in environmental sciences, expert in decision support systems and environmental modeling, collaborates with the University of Milan Bicocca.

Agronomist, expert in sustainable vineyard and hazelnut orchard management and decision support systems, founding member of ANT-NET, collaborates with the AGROINNOVA interdepartmental centre and DISAFA at the University of Turin.

Doctor of Environmental Sciences, Subject Expert in the Scientific Sector of Environmental Biotechnology, at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Expert in Contamination and Remediation of soil and groundwater.

CEO of DESAM Ingegneria e Ambiente, founding member of the Sustainable Wines Network (of which he is President), a network of consultants working in the field of sustainability in the agri-food sector.

PERMANENT MEMBERS

Sustainability experts

Professor of Agricultural Chemistry, Agricultural Food and Environmental Sciences Faculty, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He has dealt with the effects and persistence of phytosanitary products in food and environment for 35 years and he is author of more than 350 scientific papers.

Professor of Viticulture, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart. Viticulture expert, with more than 167 publications on mineral nutrition, natural plant defenses against diseases, DNA analysis for taxonomic purposes, cultivation techniques, viticultural ecology.

Full professor of agricultural economics and rural valuation at the University of Padua. His fields of research: sustainable development and the agri-food system, analysis of the structure and policy of the wine sector.

Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Viticulture, Oenology and Wine Markets (Universities of Bolzano, Padua, Verona, Udine).

Scientific delegate at the International Organization of Vine and Wine (OIV), where he was President of the Economics and Law Commission. Co-editor in chief of the journal Wine Economics and Policy and member of the editorial board of the Journal of Wine Business Research. He has published over 150 scientific works. He received two OIV prizes as co-author and the Antico Fattore Prize from the Accademia dei Georgofili

Researcher in Food Science and Technology, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. She is responsible for research projects concerning the role of oenological adjuvants in relation to both the protein and colloidal matrix. Not only, but also the study of secondary effects on the aromatic fraction and on the sensory profile of white and red wines. She is responsible for researches regarding technologies applied in white winemaking in compliance with the requirements of territorial typicity and new market expectations.

Full professor at the Department for
Innovation in Biological, Agri-Food and Forestry Systems
at the University of Tuscia. He deals with issues
related to environmental sustainability, mitigation of the impact of
global change, plant protection in agricultural,
urban and forestry contexts, as well as issues related to biotechnology
applied to agriculture, agro-industry and natural environments,
coordinating and collaborating on national, European and
international research projects. He provides institutional consulting services to
numerous large and small Italian companies, as well as to important
national, supranational and international institutions. He is the author of
over 110 scientific publications and patents cited in the
world’s leading databases.

VIVA Scientific Committee members use communication platforms and participatory tools to dialogue, discuss and decide on the activities to be carried out for the periodic review of the program; ensuring a very efficient mode of management and ongoing structural and functional improvement.