The program aims at addressing how vineyard and winery innovation is quickly becoming part of the Italian viticulture tradition. Italy is now the largest wine producer in the world and boasts the greatest variability in terms of cultivars. The peculiarities of Italian viticulture and chances to maintain a leading role are today bound to the ability to introduce sustainable innovation without losing its well-known appeal.
Curriculum
- Vineyard variability: traditional and precision approaches
- Topics in wine-marketing
- Enhancing the wine quality: innovation in monitoring and controls
- Applied grapevine eco-physiology
- Advances in enology
- Disease and pest management toward a sustainable viticulture
- Seminars on sustainable pesticides use and genetic traceability will also be provided
ECTS of each course include also practical activities, wine tasting and field visits.
Students will need to carry out a mandatory internship for the duration of at least 450 hours (i.e. 18 ECTS) in a farm/wine estate/institution. Here just a few names of prestigious Wine Estates that gave their preliminary acceptance in hosting internships: Mossi, Tenute Ruffino, Barone Ricasoli, Santa Margherita, Sella e Mosca, Mezzacorona, Contratto, Ca’ Del Bosco, Zonin, Res Uvae, Marchesi Mazzei, Cavalieri di Malta, Pico Maccario, and Marramiero.
Tuition fee: €7.000. Scholarships will be available assigned on a merit basis.
For more info please visit www.ucscinternational.it or email Prof. Stefano Poni at: stefano.poni[at]unicatt.it
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