We celebrate the 10th anniversary of PTV, whose technical secretariat we manage
The Wine Technology Platform has brought together the sector to celebrate its fifth Innovation Awards and its tenth anniversary as an association. The event was attended by institutional representation of the State Research Agency, as well as the CDTI Innovation. Both belonging to the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
From artica+i we are part of this association and we are in charge of its Technical Secretariat, through our management service of technology platforms and clusters, which we articulate through the business unit of Consulting for Innovation.
Last Monday, the wine sector gathered at CaixaForum Madrid to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Wine Technology Platform, an association of which we are part and whose technical secretariat we have been managing since its inception.
The event also hosted the fifth PTV Innovation Awards to highlight the value of R&D&I in the wine sector in five categories: Young Researcher Award, Innovative Start-Up, R&D&I Project -Individual and Consortium-, R&D&I Management and Honorary Award.
Susana García, general director of the Spanish Wine Interprofessional Organization (OIVE) intervened as guest speaker to highlight the “Strategic role of R&D&I in the Spanish wine sector”, as well as the agreement that has united the PTV and the OIVE since 2018 to promote wine innovation.
The closing of the PTV Innovation Awards ceremony was given by Mª Ángeles Ferre González, Head of the Subdivision of Scientific-Technical Thematic Programs of the State Research Agency (Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities), who highlighted “this last decade working for innovation in the wine sector hand in hand with the more than 200 partners that today make up the PTV”.
Since 2011, our Innovation Consulting team has been in charge of the Technical Secretariat of the Wine Technology Platform.
10 years promoting R&D&I
The PTV then offered a dinner to celebrate its tenth anniversary as an association, which began with words of welcome from its first secretary general and current director general of the FEV, José Luis Benítez. During his speech he took stock of the last decade and recalled how it began to take shape in 2011 what in 2013 would become the PTV association.
In addition, the PTV had a special recognition to the work and dedication of the four presidents who have been at the head of the association during this last decade: Javier Pagés, Félix Solís, Fernando Pozo and Mireia Torres.
Carlos Moro, current president of the PTV and Bodegas Familiares Matarromera, put the finishing touch to the event with a closing speech and toast of honor to celebrate “these 10 years full of success for Spanish wine innovation, in which the PTV has established itself as a benchmark of R+D+i”. He also added that the PTV is looking to the future, facing it “with equal parts enthusiasm and responsibility, to continue working on the promotion of strategic R&D&I projects that help to better position our wines, both within and beyond our borders”.
From our Innovation Consulting department we integrate the management service of technology platforms and clusters through support in the promotion, creation, strategic direction and operational management of these entities.
Specifically, in the case of the Wine Technology Platform, we have been in charge of its Technical Secretariat since 2011 and are part of its organizational structure, under the guidelines of its governing bodies. We support the economic and administrative management of the PTV, formulating budgets and strategic work plans of the association.
2023 Award Winners
The award in the R&D&I Management category was received by Familia Torres for its involvement in the innovative activity of the wine sector and for the highest number of R&D&I projects promoted and approved during 2022.
Carlota Delso, a researcher at the University of Zaragoza, was awarded in the Young Researcher category for her work “Establishing the process parameters for the microbial decontamination of must and wine by pulsed electric fields”. This is one of the two metal prizes, with an endowment of €3,000 sponsored by AgroBank.
The company Altavitis Technologies was awarded the Innovative Start-Up prize, also sponsored by AgroBank and endowed with €2,000 for the winner.
Encarna Gómez Plaza, on behalf of the University of Murcia, collected the award in the category of Consortium R&D&I Project, for her initiative “Strategies to improve the quality and preservation of wine using non-thermal physical methods”.
Viveros Villanueva Vides has received the Award in the category Individual R&D&I Project for its project “Study of the temporal dynamics of the grapevine microbiome using next-generation sequencing techniques (VITISEC)”, an award collected by Carlos Lucea Villanueva, technical director of the company.
Ángel Villafranca, former president of the OIVE, was recognized with the Honorary Award for his professional career and promotion of R&D&I within the framework of the PTV through the agreement that has united both entities since 2018.
The jury that selected the winners of the PTV Innovation Awards 2023 was made up of representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, the State Research Agency of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Center for Technological Development and Innovation (CDTI), the Spanish Wine Interprofessional Organization (OIVE), AgroBank, the consulting firm INNEARA as technological agent of the PTV, Antonio Palacios, coordinator of the Technical Commission of the PTV in the area of Product and the international Scientific Committee, represented by Arina Atonce of the University of Bucharest.
The event was sponsored by AgroBank, Productos Agrovin and Rius & Rius Assessors, in addition to the collaboration of the State Research Agency, which belongs to the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the Spanish Wine Federation, the Spanish Wine Interprofessional Organization and artica+i, which has headed the Technical Secretariat of the PTV since its inception.
