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Summary
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. It also aims to contribute to the main objectives of the EUPAHW, as outlined in the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), and the research objectives of the partner FOs.
Detailed Call Description
The call topics have been chosen to support fifteen of the SRIA Research Actions, identified as priorities by partner FOs. A list of these Research Actions is available in Annex VI. A list of the internal projects is available on www.eupahw.eu.
This call is open to proposals addressing one of the research topics described below, focusing on either terrestrial and aquatic animals, bee health, or additionally wildlife, where relevant (transmission of diseases of consequence to livestock, or zoonotic diseases).
Topic 1: Novel Technologies for Prevention, Detection, Assessment, and Management of Animal Health and Welfare. This topic includes research projects that concentrate on creating and advancing innovative technologies to enhance AH&W. Some examples:
- 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.
- The first deadline for the submission of pre-proposals is 08 July 2024, 15h00 (Brussels time). The second deadline for the submission of full-proposals is 04 February 2024, 14h00 (Brussels time).
- It is planned that the EUPAHW Evaluation Team will inform the project coordinators of the results of the first assessment step via e-mail by mid of November 2024. The coordinators of the selected pre-proposals will be invited to submit a full-proposal on behalf of their consortium.
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Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Health
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Consumer Organisations
- Educational Institutions
- Non Profit Organisations
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Universities and other higher education institutions, public research institutions, non-profit organisations, consumers/citizens and civil society representatives and private companies can apply, subject to the national/regional regulations and eligibility criteria (Annex VII).
Cyprus, Greece and Czechia are ineligible to receive funding from the FOs. Partners ineligible to receive funding from any of the FOs can also be part of research consortia if they bring their own resources and submit an appropriate “Letter of Commitment” (see Annex V). However, these applicants cannot be the coordinator, and they will not count towards the minimum or maximum number of partners.
In order to facilitate the building of consortia, a partnering tool will be available on the submission tool homepage. Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) that are beneficiaries of the EUPAHW and are interested in participating in external research calls are allowed to do so in cases defined in the Grant Agreement and Annex II (can be downloaded from the call announcement page).
Consortium composition
Consortia must include a minimum of 3 partners from a minimum of 3 different countries being eligible and requesting funding from funding organisations (FOs) participating in this call and a maximum of 8 partners requesting funding.
Applicants from countries not participating as funders in this call are welcome in research consortia, but cannot receive funding. Those associated partners should clearly demonstrate an added value to the consortium and secure their resources. The coordinator should ensure that sufficient resources are secured from these associated partners. The letter of commitment must be provided together with submitting the pre-proposal (letter of commitment template; Annex V). The same applies to all partners who are not eligible or not applying for national/regional funding from the FOs participating in the call. The associated partners will not count towards the maximum or minimum number of partners required. An associated partner can only be a partner in a proposal, not coordinator of a proposal.
Total funding of partners in one country must not exceed 60% of the total funding budget of the proposal in order to achieve balanced partnerships and ensure that responsibility and risks are shared.
If a consortium does not meet the minimum number of partners, or exceeds the maximum number of partners, or if one or more of the partners requesting funding is not eligible according to the national/regional funding criteria, the proposal will be rejected without being evaluated.
Some beneficiaries of the Partnership are allowed to be part of an applying consortium (Annex II). However, the majority of funding for this call should be allocated to external parties. Therefore, the total funding allocated to parties that are beneficiaries of the EUPAHW should be at most 35% of the total funding requested by the proposal consortium.
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