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EU Farmers’ Pig Welfare Innovation Network

Project description

Revolutionising pig farming with best practices

With the impending changes in European pig welfare legislation, the farming community needs to implement reforms. Issues like cage bans, uncovered tails, pain during castration, and space constraints are at the forefront. In this context, the EU-funded WelFarmers project aims to establish eight national and four Europe-wide networks. Specifically, the project unites pig farmers, advisors, veterinarians, and researchers to collaboratively tackle these pivotal issues and pave the way for a more humane and sustainable future in pig farming. By collecting and evaluating effective practices, WelFarmers aims to enhance pig welfare. It will disseminate best practices through diverse channels, including videos, brochures, and a multilingual website.

Objective

WelFarmers will set up eight national innovation networks and four Europe-wide networks of pig farmers, advisors, veterinarians and researchers to address the challenges of the upcoming change in the European pig welfare legislation. WelFarmers will address four main topics: cage ban; keeping pigs with uncovered tails; avoiding pain during castration and space and flooring. The most urgent innovation needs and challenges will be identified in a bottom up way and the network will collect and evaluate good practices that meet these needs. WelFarmers will also strive to collaborate with existing and new EIP-AGRI operational groups (OGs) and EU research projects focused on pig welfare and to enhance their impact. The selected best practices will be disseminated through a series of communication and dissemination activities to reach most pig farmers in the eight participating countries and in Europe. EIP abstracts, thematic reports videos, brochures, e-news, national workshops, transnational cross-fertilisation events and a multilingual website are some of the dissemination methods planned to communicate and disseminate the best practices.

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HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions

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FEDERACAO PORTUGUESA ASSOCIACOES SUINICULTORES
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€ 204 375,00
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AVENIDA DOS BOMBEIROS VOLUNTARIOS DE MONTIJO ED DA BOLSA DO PORCO S/N R/C
2870-219 MONTIJO
Portugal

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