The Municipality of Nelas will host a postgraduate degree in viticulture and oenology starting from the next academic year, the City Council announced today, having signed a protocol with the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu (IPV) on Wednesday. In a press release, the municipal executive of Nelas, led by Joaquim Amaral, highlights the announcement by IPV president José Costa of the "opening of a postgraduate degree in Viticulture and Oenology to be taught in the next academic year" in the municipality. The postgraduate degree will be taught at the Dão Viticultural Studies Centre in the town of Nelas, and has the "objective of training and empowering human resources in an area that continues to expand rapidly and that contributes to the economic growth" of the municipality. "A postgraduate degree developed between IPV, through its organic units, in this particular case, with the Viseu Higher Agricultural School (ESAV), and in partnership with the Municipality, which responds to the challenges of the wine sector, focused on production and advanced techniques and which will func..."