Our Objetives
The SOSVITI project aims to develop an advanced framework for sustainable soil management in viticulture by integrating scientific modeling, stakeholder engagement, decision-support tools, and knowledge transfer. Addressing soil degradation and erosion in vineyards requires a multidisciplinary approach, combining environmental science, artificial intelligence, remote sensing, and social analysis.
Objective 1. Soil Erosion Models from accurate field-obtained data.
Develop comprehensive soil erosion models obtained from accurate data from numerous field campaigns specifically designed for European vineyards to assess and mitigate the impact of soil degradation processes, particularly erosion caused by runoff water. These models will:
- Integrate georeferenced environmental data, including topography, soil type, land use, and precipitation patterns, to enhance predictive accuracy.
- Utilize field observations, experimental plots, and remote sensing technologies to quantify erosion rates and identify high-risk areas.
- Simulate various land management scenarios to support decision-making for vineyard owners and policymakers.
- Incorporate artificial intelligence and big data analytics to ensure continuous adaptation to changing environmental conditions and climate variability.
Objective 2 – Understanding the Perception of Key Social Actors
Investigate the perspectives and decision-making processes of key vineyard stakeholders, including policymakers, farmers, and agricultural experts, regarding sustainable soil management. This objective will:
- Use qualitative research methods (interviews, focus groups, and workshops) to identify barriers and drivers influencing the adoption of sustainable practices.
- Examine factors such as economic constraints, cultural perceptions, and knowledge gaps that affect vineyard management decisions.
- Foster collaborative knowledge exchange by engaging stakeholders throughout the research process, ensuring that findings are practical and applicable.
- Contribute to the development of inclusive governance mechanisms for soil conservation in viticulture.
Objective 3 – Development of a Decision Support System (DSS) for Vineyard Management
Create a Decision Support System (DSS) that integrates remote sensing, GIS, and precision agriculture technologies to enhance soil health monitoring, environmental sustainability, and food quality assurance. This system will:
- Combine data from satellite imagery, UAVs, soil sensors, and weather stations to generate real-time insights on vineyard conditions.
- Use machine learning algorithms and big data analytics to identify erosion risks, nutrient imbalances, water stress, and pest outbreaks.
- Provide a user-friendly, customizable interface tailored to vineyard owners, agronomists, and policymakers, ensuring accessibility and usability.
- Offer training and technical support to promote widespread adoption and maximize the impact of data-driven decision-making in viticulture from scientists to farmers.
Objective 4 – Transfer of Knowledge and Multidisciplinary Integration of Competences
Facilitate the Transfer of Knowledge (ToK) across disciplines to enhance the integration of technological and social research in soil management. This objective will:
- Focus on five key research areas: agrofood sensors, edge/fog/mist computing, artificial intelligence, data management, and social analysis.
- Ensure the integration of modeling approaches within the computational platform to improve the monitoring of complex agricultural parameters.
- Develop and test a web-based interface with continuous user feedback, ensuring that the platform meets the practical needs of end-users.
- Foster multidisciplinary collaboration between scientists, technology developers, and agricultural stakeholders, strengthening knowledge exchange mechanisms to accelerate innovation.
- Promote training, capacity building, and skill development to ensure that the knowledge generated through SOSVITI is accessible, transferable, and applicable to vineyard managers, policymakers, and the broader research community.
Latest news
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Expanding Horizons: SOSVITI’s Latest Research Contributions
We are happy to announce that the SOSVITI project has reached a new milestone! Through the successful collaboration between researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) and the ISI Athena Research Center in Patras, our team has officially published three new research papers. These publications are the direct result of the exchange stays between our…
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Participation of the University of Granada in CAI 2026 IEEE
Jesús Rodrigo-Comino, the PI of SOSVITI, from the University of Granada participated in the IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI 2026), an international event focused on the latest advances and applications of artificial intelligence across different scientific and industrial sectors. The conference, organized with the collaboration of the University of Granada, brought together researchers, companies,…
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SOSVITI Successfully Holds Its Mid-Term Meeting in Granada
The European project SOSVITI successfully held its Mid-Term Meeting in Granada (27-28.04.2026) and an international workshop, bringing together project partners to review achievements, discuss ongoing activities, and define the next steps toward sustainable soil management in European vineyards. Throughout the meeting, consortium members carried out an extensive review of the scientific and technical progress achieved…
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Alessia D’Agatta (Sapienza University of Rome) Advances Vineyard Land-Use Modelling
As part of the Horizon Europe MSCA Staff Exchange project SOSVITI, Alessia D’Agatta, researcher from Sapienza Università di Roma, carried out a secondment focused on land-use change analysis and predictive modelling in European vineyards, contributing directly to the data integration and modelling objectives of the project. During her secondment, Alessia worked on the analysis of…
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Strengthening Innovation at EGEMAP: Contributions from Lamprini Mingou and Agorakis Bompotas
The EGEMAP Laboratory (University of Granada) continues to strengthen its interdisciplinary and international research capacity through strategic collaboration with the Industrial Systems Institute (ISI | isi.gr) and Graniot Satellite. Within this framework, Lamprini Mingou and Agorakis Bompotas, both researchers from ISI, have played a key role in advancing data-driven methodologies for environmental and agricultural research,…
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SOSVITI Project Represented at the VitiForstDay in Remich: Advancing Agroforestry in European Viticulture
The SOSVITI project was actively represented by Manuel Seeger and Lars Engelmann, from IBLA (Institut fir Biologesch Landwirtschaft an Agrarkultur) and the University of Trier, during the VitiForstDay held last week at the Institut viti-vinicole (IVV) in Remich, Luxembourg. The event brought together 60 participants from four countries, reinforcing the growing international interest in agroforestry…