We are welcoming Associated Partners. Join us to support the project and help create change across the European wine sector.
Real change in the wine sector takes hold through organisations that are already trusted where they operate. Grapes of Change relies on Associated Partners to bring its evidence, tools and opportunities into wine regions across Europe, and to bring the realities of those regions into a European conversation.
Associated Partners are not an audience for the project. They are part of how it reaches the ground.
What is an Associated Partner?
Associated Partners are organisations that formally support the mission and implementation of Grapes of Change without becoming beneficiaries of the EU grant.
Associated Partners do not receive EU funding and do not report costs under the project. Their involvement is based on a light and flexible commitment formalised through the Engagement Letter.
View our current Associated Partners here.
Who can become an Associated Partner?
Wineries and wine cooperatives, producer associations and sector networks, public authorities, universities and training institutes, NGOs and women’s organisations, business support organisations and trade unions across Europe… all these organisations can become Associated Partner.
What they have in common is a position within the wine ecosystem and the willingness to use it.
What does it involve?
As an Associated Partner, you commit to carrying out, throughout the project, the actions you select from the list below, at the pace and scale that suit your capacity:
- Share Observatory findings and project results through your own channels and with your members
- Host or co-brand a local awareness event or activity
- Contribute stories, testimonies or good practices, anonymised where appropriate
- Take part in workshops, roundtables and stakeholder meetings
- Display the Grapes of Change Quality Label on your website and materials
- Introduce the project to organisations and decision-makers in your network
Affiliation is formalised through an Engagement Letter signed by your organisation.
This is a light and flexible commitment. There is no minimum budget, no reporting obligation towards the European Commission, and no fixed calendar.
What do you receive?
Associated Partners strengthen the reach and impact of the project. In return, the Grapes of Change consortium commits to:
Visibility
Your organisation features in the Associated Partner webpage and is mentioned when relevant in project newsletters and communication campaigns.
Access to evidence
Access to non-sensitive Observatory outputs ahead of public release, useful for benchmarking, advocacy and internal reflection.
Practical tools
Free access to project toolkits, guidance and training materials as they are released.
Invitations and speaking
Priority invitations to project conferences, national workshops and policy roundtables, with opportunities to contribute as speakers where the programme allows.
European networking
Direct contact with peer organisations and decision-makers across the Grapes of Change partnership and its European network.
A voice in the discussion
Opportunities to feed your sector’s perspective into European policy dialogue on gender equality in wine.
Co-branding
The right to use the project’s visual identity for joint awareness activities, in line with the project’s visual guidelines.
How to join?
Once you are part of the Grapes of Change Community, you can become an Associated Partner in just 3 easy steps:
- Share with us your interest: fill in the online form and wait for our team to contact you to complete the affiliation process
- Sign the Engagement letter: you will receive an Engagement letter. Select the actions you wish to undertake, sign the letter, and return it to us.
- Join the network: your organisation is added to the directory and to the Associated Partner network.
For more information you can write to contact@grapesofchange.eu or contact your local partner.