Vitis Global is an independent editorial guide to international wine education. We write about universities, teaching modules, wine regions and industry conferences connected to viticulture and oenology, and we link out to the original institutions rather than asking you to take our word for anything.
This page explains who we are, how we research what we publish, and - because the name is easy to confuse with a closed EU-funded project that once used a similar name - what we are not. If you landed here looking for an official programme office, admissions desk or consortium secretariat, this is not it: we are a reporting and reference site, built for students, academic staff and wine professionals who want a readable starting point before they go to the primary source.
What Vitis Global is not
Between 2018 and 2023, an Erasmus+ "Capacity Building in Higher Education" project ran under the name VitaGLOBAL, coordinated by the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona together with OBREAL, a global higher-education observatory, with around seventeen partner universities from Spain, Italy, France, Portugal, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, South Africa and Georgia. Its goal was to help those institutions build joint master's-level programmes in viticulture, oenology and vitiviniculture. That project is now closed.
Vitis Global is a separate, independently run site. We are not affiliated with VitaGLOBAL, URV, OBREAL or any of the partner universities listed in our university directory, and we do not act, write, or solicit on their behalf. When we describe VitaGLOBAL's real activities, such as the training workshop it ran at Stellenbosch University or the module work carried out by Georgian partner institutions, we do so as historical reporting about a finished public project, in the third person, with sources linked. We never write as though we are that project, and we never claim to represent any university named on this site.
How we research what we publish
Every factual claim on this site is meant to trace back to a real, checkable source: a university's own program page, a national accreditation body, an organization like the OIV, or published reporting from wine-industry outlets. We favor linking directly to that source over restating it as if it were our own authority. We do not invent statistics, quotes, prices, named staff, or testimonials, and we do not claim affiliations we do not have.
University programs, admission requirements, fees and course rosters change from one academic year to the next, sometimes faster than any third-party guide can track. Treat anything you read here as a starting point for comparison, not a final answer, and confirm current details - intake dates, tuition, language of instruction, accreditation status - directly with the institution before you apply or make travel plans.
What we cover
- Universities worldwide that teach viticulture, oenology or related agricultural sciences, profiled in our university directory
- How international academic cooperation in agriculture is typically organized, including the project structures described in how international agricultural education projects work
- Regional case studies such as Mendoza's wine education scene, where we also note the historical fact that VitaGLOBAL held a real kick-off meeting there in 2019
- Conferences, webinars and training formats relevant to students and professionals in the sector
Corrections and sourcing questions
If you find a factual error, a dead link, or a claim that no longer matches what an institution publishes on its own site, we want to know. Because we rely on public, verifiable sources, a correction usually just means updating a link or a sentence to match what the primary source currently says.
| Question | Where to find the answer |
|---|---|
| Is Vitis Global part of a university or EU-funded consortium? | No. We are an independent publisher with no institutional affiliation. |
| Can I apply to a program through this site? | No. Apply directly through the university's own admissions office, linked from our profiles. |
| Does this site speak for VitaGLOBAL or any partner university? | No. We report on public, published information about them; we do not represent them. |
| Where do the facts on this site come from? | University program pages, accreditation bodies, the OIV, and published industry sources, linked throughout each article. |
