European Partnership Animal Health and Welfare 2024 Call – National Rules Has Been Published!

The 2024 Call of the European Partnership Animal Health and Welfare (EUPAHW), which is supported under the Horizon Europe Programme, has been published.

Call Scope:

This call aims to enhance animal health and welfare by supporting innovative research to develop novel and improved technologies and addressing fundamental and socioeconomic science questions related to the prevention, detection, assessment, and management of animal health and welfare issues of both terrestrial and aquatic animals.

Topic 1: Novel Technologies for Prevention, Detection, Assessment, and Management of Animal Health and Welfare

• These technologies could range from genomic surveillance of health and improved disease diagnostic methods to novel or improved vaccines and vaccine platforms.
• The development of new technologies aimed at monitoring and improving animal welfare could for instance include the creation of sensors, decision support tools, or innovative animal husbandry and aquaculture systems.

Topic 2: Fundamental Research for Animal Health and Welfare

This topic involves research to advance scientific knowledge and understanding of the biological, immunological, and physiological mechanisms influencing terrestrial and aquatic AH&W.

Examples include increasing knowledge of priority pathogens (bacteria, parasites, viruses, fungi, or prions responsible for important economic losses or high risk for transmission to humans), interactions with the host microbiome, diagnostics, immunology, and the basis of welfare indicators such as normal behaviour, positive emotional state, thermal comfort, ease of movement, absence of disease.

Topic 3: Animal Health and Welfare and Society

This topic covers social, economic, or ethical studies that examine how pathogens, novel technologies or improved animal welfare might impact farmers, fishers, aquaculture producers, consumers, or the production chain. It would also cover studies focusing on human behaviour with respect to biosecurity, perception of welfare and impacts on demand, and communications with farmers and producers to improve awareness and acknowledgement of AH&W (i.e. to improve acceptability of policy, to facilitate a transition to sustainable production).

Collaborative research between academic and private sectors can provide benefits for AH&W, Therefore, this call encourages applications that may include partners from the private sector, where appropriate, and within national and regional regulations, as per Annex VII.

Exclusions: The research funded through this call is to improve AH&W. The focus of each research proposal should therefore be on animal health/disease and welfare. Research that mainly focuses on the following, is not in the scope of the call:

• Improving human health
• Companion animals
• Food-borne pathogens
• AMR focusing specifically on public/human health
• Socio-economic projects that do not integrate animal health and/or welfare
• Development of new antimicrobials
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A webinar for applicants will take place on 14th of May 2024 from 10:00-12:00 (CEST). Please find below the contact data for the webinar:

https://ptj-fzj.webex.com/ptj-fzj-en/j.php?MTID=m669724cf438b8df889daeec...

In addition to the international project applications to be submitted to the call secretariat, it is obligatory to submit a national project application to TUBITAK by researchers who would like to take part in the projects from Türkiye. You can find the national application rules here.

Call Calendar

Related Experts

For information on International Application Conditions:

Dr. Hatice Mahur TURAN

ARDEB Health Sciences Research Grant Committee (SBAG)

E-mail: mahur.turan@tubitak.gov.tr

For information about the National Application Requirements and the 1071 Program:

Ersin TURAN

ARDEB International Cooperation Projects Research Grant Committee (UPAG)

E-mail: ersin.turan@tubitak.gov.tr