The overall objective of SHIELD4GRAPE (S4G) is to implement sustainable agroecological approaches contributing to the improvement of resilience of the grapevine agri-food systems against pest diseases in a context of climatic changes.

This will be achieved by implementing the multi-actor approach in line with the European Green Deal, the EU Climate Policy, EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 and the Farm to Fork strategy. S4G introduces safer and more sustainable approaches against fungal/oomycete pathogens in combination with new grapevine resilient genotypes. This will add value to the wine heritage of the EU regions by reducing the number of treatments with chemical products, using strategies that are less hazardous to the environment. S4G will contribute concretely to safeguard of the territory, particularly of the areas with a high concentration of vineyards, the human health, the farmers, the population living in grape-growing areas and the consumers.

This will be achieved through a combination of new knowledge acquired from pathology, genetic and genomics, along with innovative IPM and breeding processes.

New indicators to identify the optimum combination of IPM strategies in selected disease-adapted genotypes will be developed and made accessible to the EU’s farming communities.