Trade and Innovation in Wine Industry

Programme 2014 - 2020 Black Sea Basin ENI CBC

Date of latest update: 2025-06-17

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Description (EN):

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.

Achievements (EN):

The overall objective was to increase trade and cooperation in the wine sector over the Black Sea Basin. The objective was achieved through the creation of the Wine Network WINET (available here: https://www.winet.wine/, containing information related to products, wineries, and services) supported by an online platform meant to increase the links among partners in order to create viable business relations and thus increase trade and ease cooperation, mutual promotion and exchange of best practices, constant modernisation of production and marketing strategies. In connection with this platform, a WINET Communication and Marketing Plan (identifying concrete measures to promote the network) and the WINET Network Carta (establishing the network scope and objectives, working principles, rules of conduct of members, rules for network admission, benefits and obligations of the members) were developed. The Wine Network (WINET) was designed as an open initiative to increase trade and cooperation in the wine sector, inviting all interested parties to join. A document entitled "The White paper" was drafted as an initial study that offers information from all participating countries. The table of contents contains these main chapters: Executive summary, wine history, the institutional framework of the wine sector, winegrowing regions, winery profiles, analysis of wine production, sales trends, wine tourism, and future prospects. The platform also has the Moldova wine road map and information related to the events organised within the project.

Website: http://blacksea-cbc.net/

Expected Results (EN): R 1.2 Strength of cross-border links for trade and modernisation in the agricultural and connected sectors

Expected Outputs (EN):

The project will produce the following results: R1. Increased cooperation in the wine sector within the participating countries in particular and the Black Sea Basin in general thus contributing to the program result indicator R1.2 by creating cross-border links which will lead to increase trade. The project envisages organising networking events (conferences and forums) and creating a network of partners in the wine sector so as to ensure the establishment of enhanced cross border links and lasting partnerships. Achieving this result will lead to strong relationships, public-private-NGOs collaboration, increased commercial relations: enterprises, knowledge tranfers and modernization of the industry: higher education and research centres cooperating with enterprises. R2. Increased mutual promotion and trade in the wine sector within the participating countries in particular and the Black Sea Basin in general, thus directly contributing to the program result indicator R1.2. The ICT WINE platform is an innovative instrument that will ensure easy promotion of wine related services and products by all interested partners as well as increased and reliable trade possibilities as well as joint initiatives in capacity building or research and modernizations programs. Achieving this result would bring benefits to the involved enterprises and the local/regional public auth as it implies growth in their communities. R3. Increased knowledge sharing in the wine sector among the participating countries in particular and the BSB in general. By means of good practice exchange programs as well as by the collaborative instruments available in the ICT platform the project will support enhancing skills and knowledge of all interested enterprises and will directly contribute to R1.2 indicator. The result will allow enterprises, dedicated sectorial agencies, and high education research centres to establish mutualy beneficial partnerships

Thematic information

Clustering and economic cooperation

Thematic Objective: Business and SME development

Partners (3)

Lead Partner: The Moldovan Investment Agency

Address: Stefan cel Mare bd., 134, MD-2012 Chisinau, Moldova

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.invest.gov.md

Total budget: EUR 51 660.19

Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture Tulcea

Name: Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture Tulcea

Address: Victoriei Street 22Tulcea, Romania

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.cciatl.ro

Total budget: EUR 34 657.97

Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Stara Zagora

Name: Chamber of Commerce and Industry - Stara Zagora

Address: Georgy S. Rakovski str. 66, 6000 Stara Zagora, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.chambersz.com

Total budget: EUR 35 034.70

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Търговско-промишлена палата - Стара Загора

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The Moldovan Investment Agency

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Summary

Project name (EN): Trade and Innovation in Wine Industry

Project acronym: WINET

Project start date: 2019-04-05

Project end date: 2021-11-04

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 121 352.86

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 111 644.62

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2014 - 2020 Black Sea Basin ENI CBC

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2025-06-06

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

43 / 43 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

220 / 220 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme on 2025-03-10. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://blacksea-cbc.net/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2024-02-01, except for projects with acronyms AGREEN, BeECO, BRIDGES, BSB ECO MONITORING, BSB Smart Farming, CRoCuS, EXCELTOUR, LeNetEco 2, LOC-FOOD, SILC, THC (in these cases, the information was provided by the Programme).

The financial data featured in keep.eu for this programme, it's projects and its partners is not exact and should be taken as a reference only.

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