Digging into specific sectors and how they work with EU funding is also part of what I intent to unfold in this podcast. It is through examples from the stakeholders out there that the importance of EU funding really becomes clear.

The Technological Platform of Wine (or PTV) from Spain is an association that facilitates innovation and development for the wine producing sector in Spain. The organisation has in recent years started to engage itself and its members in regionally funded and EU funded projects. The sector is, like agriculture in general, facing many challenges due to climate change and to a growing push for circularity and sustainability in its agricultural praxises.

I invited Andrea Casquete Bureba, Project Manager at Technological Platform of Wine (PTV), into the virtual podcast studio for a talk about the innovation challenges of the wine sector, how PTV helps its members and how they are using the EU funded projects to help solving these challenges.

A wonderful talk that gives similar organisations an idea of how to approach EU funding, which strategies to follow and how to involve members and stakeholders in proposals, projects and lobbying.