Vineyards and Abandonment: Tools for Mapping

Confagricoltura and the University of Pavia are organizing the conference “Vineyards and Abandonment: Tools for Mapping” to present the results of the industrial PhD project in which they are involved.

The doctoral project is titled Innovative Evaluation and Study of the Vine according to New Agronomic Scenarios for the Oltrepò Pavese (VIVO) and is being carried out by PhD candidate Giovanni Marchese under the supervision of Massimiliano Bordoni and Valentina Vaglia (both from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Pavia) and Alberto Lasagna (Director of Confagricoltura Pavia), in collaboration with the group led by Chiara Toffanin (Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, University of Pavia). PhD candidate G. Marchese is at the end of his second year at the University of Pavia and is about to begin his third year at Unagri srl, the initiative’s industrial partner.

Also speaking at the event will be Marta Sempio, President of Confagricoltura Pavia, and Lucia Marazzi, Head of the Third Mission Service at the University of Pavia and Deputy Manager of NODES Spoke 6.

Agenda

9:00 a.m.
Reception and participant registration

10:00 a.m.
Institutional greetings and introduction – Dr. Marta Sempio, President of Confagricoltura Pavia

10:20 a.m.
“The PNRR project, NODES – North-West Digital and Sustainable: Innovation, sustainability, digitalization, and territorial development” – Eng. Lucia Marazzi, Third Mission Service, UNIPV

10:30 a.m.
“Case studies of collaborations in applied research activities within the NODES project for the Oltrepò Pavese” – Prof. Massimiliano Bordoni – Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNIPV; Prof. Chiara Toffanin – Dept. of Industrial and Information Engineering, UNIPV; Valentina Vaglia, PhD – Administrator, Soc. Agr. Regenerating Villa Fortuna and formerly RTDA PNRR NODES

11:00 a.m.
“Presentation of the project: Mapping vineyard abandonment” within the project Innovative Evaluation and Study of the Vine according to New Agronomic Scenarios for the Oltrepò Pavese (VIVO) – Dr. Giovanni Marchese, PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, UNIPV

Discussion and conclusions

Networking event to follow

Free event

Date and venue:

Thursday, November 12, 2025, 9:00 a.m. – Centro Riccagioia, Via Riccagioia 48, 27050 Torrazza Coste (Pavia)