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The UEVB ropes in researchers, private and public partners, expertise and research devices aiming to design sustainable viticultural systems that adapt to climate change.

Included in the BAP (Plant Biology and Breeding), SPE (Plant Health and Environment) and Agroecosystems departments’ strategic outlines, the Unit leads activities centred around three major thematic issues : 

• Reducing the use of inputs
• Adapting the vineyard to climate change
• The vineyard’s wasting away

The UEVB handles several projects:

- The management of experimental devices 

• Long-term devices aiming to generate knowledge on the vineyard’s adaptation to climate change and to assess very low-input cultural systems
• Medium to long-term analytic devices
• A platform meant to assess the effects of biocontrol agents in the vineyard
• A collection of more than 1000 varieties of vine

- The production of biological material

The UEVB supplies vine woods and grows grafted plants for experimental ends

- Contribution to education

The UEVB takes part in the full-time and continuing education given at the ISVV*. We will create a plot entirely dedicated to the ISVV students who will thus be able to work from the vine stock to the glass. 

The unit is located on the Grande Ferrade site, which has a long winegrowing history, near all the INRAE and université de Bordeaux laboratories regrouped in the ISVV. 

The experimental site covers 18 hectares, including 8.5 hectares that are currently planted with vines. 

Partnerships

The unit’s partnership policy is directed towards research units, as well as professional and educational structures for knowledge transmission.

The UEVB, as a stakeholder of the ISVV, works in close partnership with the institute’s research units, such as : 

• EGFV (Ecophysiology and Functional Genomics of the Grapevine)
• SAVE* (Health and Agroecology of the Vineyard)
• ŒNOLOGIE* (Oenology)

It also develops partnerships with other INRAE teams such as : 

• Colmar (SVQV)
• Montpellier (ABSys*)
• And the INRAE viticultural experimental units (UEPR*, UEAV*)

There are programs led in partnership with the CIVB, the BIVB, the IFV and the Gironde Chamber of Agriculture (CA33*).

The unit is also associated with the IFV as part of the mixed technological unit SEVEN* (Health of Input-Efficient Viticultural Ecosystems).

The unit contributes to practical modules given within the framework of the oenology diploma at the ISVV.

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