Joint Promoting Actions of the Local Entrepreneurship at Greece/Albania Less Favoured Areas (LFA) on the Viticulture and Wine Production Business Sector

Programme 2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Greece - Albania

Date of latest update: 2024-03-02

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Description (EN):

Common Challenge/Overall Objective:The economies of the GR/AL CB Less Favoured areas (LFA) diverse at all spatial scales.While agriculture is perceived as vital and proved to be the most resilient sector of the CB local economy (the agriculture sector both in GR and AL increased GVA by 3,2%&12,6%respectively),employment in other sectors is generally higher(GR area is considerably less agriculture and more heavily service-oriented than the AL one).Moreover,both in two countries,LFAs policies often address issues related to economic development,infrastructure & environment.WINCOME is about how a joint route of promoting the outward-looking of SMEs & local wine products to international markets can support non-homogeneous areas to flourish in more than one field.The WINCOME's overall objective is in full accordance with the programme's specific objective of the thematic priority in which belongs: Improve CB capacity to support entrepreneurship, business survival & competitiveness. Approach/Main Outputs:WINCOME's idea is based on the needs of the PBs in relation mainly to Viticulture and Wine Production by applying the "Bottom-Up" approach which goes beyond excising practise of "Top-Down" local development policy.The "bottom-up" approach means that local actors participate in decision-making about the strategy and in the selection of the priorities to be pursued in their local area. Previous CB experience has shown that the bottom-up approach should not be considered as alternative or opposed to top-down approaches from national and/or regional authorities, but rather as combining and interacting with them, in order to achieve better overall results.Under the WINCOME, the basic elements of cross-border cooperation are those of cooperation among local and regional authorities and businesess, but also an orientation on elimination of the economic dysfunctions caused by border. The PBs strongly motivated from the opportunity given for a) transformation of the border from a line of separation into a "workspace" for Joint Exploitation and Promotional Actions of Wine Products, and b) promotion of economic growth and exchange of know-how.Main expected outputs include: *Targeted Studies of the cross-border area & Plans for the growth of the SMEs extroversion. *Assesment of Cross-border and International Commercial Networks of Wine Products, * Cataloguing and Commercial Evaluation of Local Wines' Varieties (Zitsa-Amyntaio-Korce) * Recording & Investigation of genetic variability (indigenous grape varieties, Zitsa-Amyntaio-Korce)-for a first time, * 3 Business & Financial Planning Tools of a "Smart Wine Production Unit", * Info-kiosks (showrooms), *2 Joint Business Seminars, * 4 Local agro-seminars (in-situ), *1 CB Wine Exhibition, * 3 Pilot/demonstration projects for Smart production of grapevines' propagating material.

Website: https://2014-2020.greece-albania.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

Despite the fact that the project's support to local entrepreneurship is non- financial, the project itself, develops a sustainable framework for business development, provide essential business tools and exchanging know-how. The innovative character of the project is demonstrated by the multilevel approach that has been adopted to improve capacities of regional and actors/facilities to support the development/growth of businesses. This approach aims firstly a)to highlight the great potential on producing added value and competitive wine products with superior characteristics using local traditional techniques, b)to attract young entrepreneurs and secondly to pave the way for smart business specialization. Consequently the project's expected results are: Over 100 CB wine and viticulture enterprises will be supported (non-financial) from the projects expected outputs. Joint CB Wine exhibitions will promote CB business cooperation. WINCOME pave the way for future investments which will produce tangible and visible results on wine production and viticulture. The projects stakeholder will benefit from a great opportunity given to capitalize the projects outputs for business development purposes. At least 200 new interested entrepreneurs will be educated in wine production techniques and viticulture. At least 20 local traditional viticulture and wine production techniques will be demonstrated on-site. user-friendly innovative ICT tools will be developed and be available for use. WINCOME, will serve as best practice and contemporary business development model for Less Favoured Areas in local and regional level.

Expected Outputs (EN):

A.Multidimensional Analysis of the Wine Business Sector at the WINCOME CB Area: A.1Studies (x2) concerning the External & Internal Environment of Wine Business Sector-Link with SO2,5,6,7,16 A.2Cataloguing and Commercial Evaluation of Local Wines' Varieties (Zitsa-Amyntaio-Korce)-Link with SO1,2,3,5,6,7,9,16 A.3Assesment of Cross-border and International Commercial Networks of Wine Products-Link with SO1,2,3,5,6,7,9,10,13,16 A.4Web GIS Platform of Wine Zone Varieties & Production Units (Zitsa-Amyntaio-Korce)-Link with SO2,5,6,8,10,16 A.5Local (Zitsa-Amyntaio) & Regional (Korce) Operational Plans (x3) for the Reuse of Abandoned Vineyards -Link with SO2,7,14,16,17 A.6Spatial analysis & classification of Local Wine Production Zones (including abandoned) using Drones and ICT Mapping Tools.-Link with SO2,5,6,7,8,9,14,16,17 B.Smart Specialization/Joint Exploitation & Promotion B.1Recording & Investigation of genetic variability (indigenous grape varieties, Zitsa-Amyntaio-Korce)-SO2,5,7,14 B.2 Business & Financial Planning Tools (x3) of a "Smart Wine Production Unit" (Zitsa-Amyntaio-Korce)-SO6,7,8,13,16 B.3 Pilot/demonstration projects (x3) for Smart production of grapevines' propagating material (Zitsa-Amyntaio-Korce)-SO2,4,5,6,7,8 B.4 Database Development of Best Practices on Smart Wine Production & Viticulture-SO1,3,4,5,6,7,8,16 B.5 Info-kiosks (showrooms) x3-SO3,6,7,10 B.6 Organization of 1 CB Wine Exhibition-SO1,2,3,6,7,9,10,12 B.7 Registrations to the National Intangible Heritage Indexes (UNESCO, Art.12) concerning Traditional Local Viticulture & Wine production-SO5,14 C. Exchange of Knowledge - Sustainability of Results C.1 Organization of Joint Thematic business seminars (X2)- SO1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10,15,16 C.2 Organization of 4 local thematic agro-seminars (incl. on-site training)-SO1,2,3,4,5,6,9,10,15,16 C.3 Sustainability studies (X2) of the Project's Results (Greece/Albania)-SO1,3,4,9.

Thematic information

SME and entrepreneurship Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Specific Objective: Improve cross-border capacity to support entrepreneurship, business survival and competitiveness

Thematic Priority:

(g) Enhancing competitiveness, the business environment and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, trade and investment through, inter alia, promotion and support to entrepreneurship, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises, and development of local cross-border markets and internationalisation

Partners (5)

Lead Partner: Municipality of Zitsa

Address: Eleutherias Avenue and Euklidi,Eleousa, Ioannina, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.zitsa.gov.gr

Total budget: EUR 128 578.56

IPA2 budget: EUR 109 291.78

Amyndeon Oenos

Name: Amyndeon Oenos

Address: Gimnastiriou 7, 53200 Amyndeo, Greece

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.amyndeonoenos.gr/

Total budget: EUR 61 478.65

IPA2 budget: EUR 52 256.85

Qendra për Bashkëpunim dhe Zhvillim Rajonal

Name: Qendra për Bashkëpunim dhe Zhvillim Rajonal

Address: UNAZA E RE, N. C34, 7th FloorTirana, Albania

Legal status: private

Website: http://rcdcalbania.org/

Total budget: EUR 36 292.16

IPA2 budget: EUR 30 848.34

Regional Council of Korca

Name: Regional Council of Korca

Address: Avenue Republika Nr. 3, 7002 Korce, Albania

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.korcaregion.com

Total budget: EUR 61 773.66

IPA2 budget: EUR 52 507.61

Municipality of Amyntaio

Name: Municipality of Amyntaio

Address: Grigoriou Nikolaidi, 2, 53200 Amyndeo, Greece

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.amyntaio.gr

Total budget: EUR 132 411.46

IPA2 budget: EUR 112 549.74

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Project name (EN): Joint Promoting Actions of the Local Entrepreneurship at Greece/Albania Less Favoured Areas (LFA) on the Viticulture and Wine Production Business Sector

Project acronym: WINCOME

Project start date: 2018-06-01

Project end date: 2020-10-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 420 534.49

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 357 454.32

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%

Co-financing sources:

IPA/IPA II/IPA III: Amount, EUR 357 454.32.

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2014 - 2020 Interreg IPA CBC Greece - Albania

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2020-07-22

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65 / 65 (100%)

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293 / 293 (100%)

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Joint Promoting Actions of the Local Entrepreneurship at Greece/Albania Less Favoured Areas (LFA) on the Viticulture and Wine Production Business Sector

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