Attitudes, practices and state of the art regarding piglet castration in Europe

Ziel

The overall objective of the project is to provide information on pig castration that will support EU policy. The specific objectives are: o to collect information on the attitudes of relevant stakeholders; o to collect information on the practice of pig castration; o to evaluate research work and other information, in order to examine the various alternatives to surgical castration without anaesthesia and derive research priorities; o to integrate the collected information and evaluation in a report providing support for EU policy.

The consortium comprises 10 participant organisations. Participant persons will be distributed into a core group of participant persons, a stakeholder platform and an extended circle of participant persons. The support activities will be broken down into 4 work packages corresponding to the 4 specific objectives (WP1: Attitudes; WP2: Practice; WP3: Evaluation; WP4: Recommendations). WP1 and WP2 will be conducted in parallel during the first year of the programme. Under the supervision of regional co-ordinators, national contact people will conduct interviews of stakeholders. The collected information will be integrated at the international level to derive common trends and regional variations in attitudes and practice, as well as potential clashes of interest between the categories of stakeholders.

The collected information will be used as an input for WP3, together with other available resources. WP3 will evaluate the available information on alternatives to surgical castration fro m various perspectives (attitudes, practice, welfare, pork quality, resource efficiency and economy). Within WP4, the information obtained from WP1, WP2 and WP3 will be integrated in a report containing support for EU policy. The most important deliverable s will be the reports on practice of castration (month 10), attitudes of stakeholders (month 12), evaluation of research (month 18) and recommendations for research and policy support (month 24).

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• Medizin- und Gesundheitswissenschaften › Klinische Medizin › Anästhesie

Schlüsselbegriffe

• Pig
• castration
• welfare

Programm/Programme

• FP6-POLICIES - Policy support: Specific activities covering wider field of research under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006.

Thema/Themen

• POLICIES-1.4 - New and more environment friendly production methods to improve animal health

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

FP6-2005-SSP-5-A
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Finanzierungsplan

SSA - Specific Support Action

Koordinator

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE AGRONOMIQUE

Adresse

147 Rue De L'université
Paris
Frankreich

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Beteiligte (9)

INSTITUT DE RECERCA I TECNOLOGIA AGROALIMENTARIES

Spanien

Adresse

Passeig De Gracia, 44
Barcelona

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EIGEN VERMOGEN VAN HET INSTITUUT VOOR LANDBOUW- EN VISSERIJONDERZOEK

Belgien

Adresse

Burg. Van Gansberghelaan 96
Merelbeke

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STICHTING DIENST LANDBOUWKUNDIG ONDERZOEK

Niederlande

Adresse

Costerweg 50
Lelystad

ANIMALIA, NORWEGIAN MEAT RESEARCH CENTRE

Norwegen

Adresse

Lorenveien 38
396, Okern Oslo

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UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

United Kingdom

Adresse

6 Kensington Terrace
Newcastle Upon Tyne

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MARTIN-LUTHER-UNIVERSITAET HALLE-WITTENBERG

Deutschland

Adresse

Universitaetplatz 10
Halle

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SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET

Schweden

Adresse

Arrheniusplan 2c
7070 Uppsala

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CENTRO RICERCHE PRODUZIONI ANIMALI CRPA SPA

Italien

Adresse

Corso Garibaldi 42
Reggio Emilia

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UNIWERSYTET ROLNICZY

Polen

Adresse

Al. Mickiewicza 21
Krakow

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