Trade and Innovation in Wine Industry

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WINET aims to increase trade and cooperation in the wine sector over the Black Sea Basin. To achieve its objective WINET Partners will create a Network linking over 100 enterprises, SME, higher education and research, local/regional/national authorities as well as interest groups, NGOs and business support organisations from the three founding countries. The project will create the necessary framework and facilities for establishing viable relationships among members so as to create a community dedicated to collaboration, increased commercial relations and constant modernization of the region wine industry. The main results to be achieved by the project are: - R1. Increased cooperation in the wine sector; - R2. Increased mutual promotion and trade in the wine sector; - R3. Increased knowledge sharing in the wine sector. WINET tangles the cross border cooperation problem, with a new approach based on a blend of classic networking and modern on-line technologies, in line with the current trends and supported by the wine sector development strategies within the participating countries, that will increase trades between Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova as well as exports to another countries. The project comes in a context of decreasing commercial relations in the wine business among the participating countries, decrease of wine production due to weather, decline in quality due to non standard and lack of modern techniques and aims to solve these problems by means of collaboration, best practice exchange programs, cooperation of authorities, higher education centers and enterprises as well as online trading. The project features: - Initial assessments as a base for the Network design - Creating the Wine Network (WINET) as an open initiative to increase trade and cooperation in the wine sector and inviting all interested parties to join - Networking and dissemination events as well as best practice exchange programs - Creating the ICT WINET platform as a support tool for easier promotion of products and services, collaboration, trade among members - Animating the platform, advertising it on-line through social media to create the necessary impact and traction for self-sustainability. The project is in line with several EU initiatives and is complementary with other regional cross border cooperation programs. Due to its innovative ICT approach to trade and collaboration the initiative can be very easily joined by new members from any country in the Black Sea Basin. The project strongly supports environmental sustainability and promotes the democracy and human rights as well as gender equality in its actions and messages. On the long term the project will improve the welfare of people in the regions through cooperation and thus sustainable growth. Information added on 2020-05-14, regarding the mitigation of the effects of COVID-19 (the coronavirus pandemic that started in 2019) (English language only): WINET platform under development and the WINE network are intended to increase the trade capacity in the Black Sea Basin area. Both tools will link SMEs, higher education and research, local/regional/national authorities as well as interest groups, NGOs and business support organizations helping to overcome the pandemic and its socio-economic impact.

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