Meet the partners: Confindustria Toscana Servizi

Confindustria Toscana Servizi is supporting enterprises for over 15 years through a wide range of services covering training, innovation, research, and internationalisation.

Meet the partners: Impact Hub GmbH

Impact Hub GmbH is part of the global Impact Hub network — one of the world’s largest communities for impact-driven entrepreneurship — operating in 100+ locations worldwide.

One year on: Grapes of Change meets in Budapest

Grapes of Changes has reached its one-year milestone! Project partners came together to reflect on the past months and map out the road ahead.

Meet the partners: Coldiretti

For more than 75 years, Coldiretti has been a leading voice for Italian agriculture.

Meet the partners: Impact Hub Athens

Impact Hub Athens leverages over a decade of local and international experience in fostering social innovation and systemic change. Anchored in its strong presence in Greece, and as part of the Global Impact Hub Network, spanning 65 countries, it plays a pivotal role in engaging communities, advancing sustainable practices and co-developing inclusive solutions.

Meet the partners: ASAJA Mujeres

ASAJA Mujeres was founded to give visibility to rural women and female farmers and strengthen their role in the agricultural sector.

Meet the partners: Sistemi Formativi Confindustria

Lead partner of Grapes of Change, SFC – Sistemi Formativi Confindustria is the training and research agency of Confindustria, Italy’s main employers’ federation.

Women, Data and the Future of Wine: Building an Observatory on Gender Equality

The evolving role of women across the wine value chain and the need for structured analytical tools to better understand and support this transformation will be discussed at Vinitaly.

Opening the Conversation at Slow Wine Fair 2026

Grapes of Change brought gender equality to the centre of public discussion of the Slow Wine Fair 2026.

International Women’s Day 2026

A resilient and competitive wine sector requires justice, safety and equal opportunity to be embedded across its value chain. On International Women's Day, we reaffirm our commitment to turning principles into practice.

The first Grapes of Change Bulletin is here!

The wine sector tells stories of excellence. But not all stories are being told. The Grapes of Change Bulletin is here to uncover them and to show how change is already underway.

Where do we stand (January 2026)

Since May 2025 fourteen organizations across eight countries, including agricultural federations, women's associations, universities, and business support networks are building the first Observatory dedicated to gender based discrimination and violence in wine sector. 

Anchoring the Grapes of Change Observatory in lived experience: insights from focus groups

A core outcome of the Grapes of Change project is the development of an Observatory on gender-based violence (GBV) to collect reliable, comparable data while also improving awareness, recognition, and prevention of GBV across the industry.

Talamonti: an operational model for gender equality in the wine sector

Talamonti is a first-generation Italian wine company based in Abruzzo, operating internationally and recognised as a pioneer in integrating gender equality into its organisational model. Talamonti is not just a virtuous example.

Hungary Focus Group explores cultural norms and structural challenges shaping gender equality in the wine sector

A national focus group held in Budapest on 8 December 2025 brought together a diverse range of stakeholders to explore gender equality challenges within the Hungarian agri-food and wine sector.

Structural inequality and limits of survey-based reporting in the wine sector according to German Focus Group

In December 2025, Impact Hub Stuttgart convened the first German Focus Group within the Grapes of Change project, bringing together representatives from Vinissima – Frauen & Wein e.V. and professionals actively working in wineries.

Spanish Focus Group highlights structural barriers and data scarcity as challenges for the Grapes of Change Observatory

A focus group organised by ASAJA Mujeres in Spain in December 2025 brought together women winegrowers, winery managers, agricultural engineers, journalists, and sector representatives to contribute to the development of the Grapes of Change Observatory.

A beer against violence: when an agricultural supply chain becomes a tool for change

A beer can be much more than a simple drink. It can become a message, a choice, a concrete gesture of collective responsibility.

French Focus Groups discuss key priorities feeding into the Grapes of Change Observatory

Two focus groups held in France in December 2025 brought together professionals, associations, and sector stakeholders to collect qualitative feedback on the Observatory’s objectives.