2023 - FOR THE EUROPEAN PARTNERSHIP ON ANIMAL HEALTH AND WELFARE

Animal infectious diseases do not respect frontiers and threaten the lives of animals, compromising their welfare, engender significant production loss, threaten the integrity and diversity of ecosystems, jeopardise the livelihood of farmers and the socio-economy of regions and nations, costing billions of Euros for control and mitigation and place human lives at risk. [...] To facilitate the cooperation between all relevant actors on the prevention and control of animal infectious diseases and the monitoring of animal welfare Offering public and private players in the field of animal health and welfare the possibility to set up research and other kinds of integrative activities, training, capacity building and education actions, and to share experience, will lead to. [...] the design and implementation of surveillance and monitoring systems, the harmonization of tools and procedures, the design of husbandry systems and management practices, the alignment of the risk assessment, etc. [...] To strengthen the dissemination and uptake of project outputs to societal, political and private stakeholders Upstream and continuous interaction with stakeholders to identify their needs and demands, general and targeted communication on the outputs of EUP AH&W, both dealing with animal health and animal welfare, dissemination of its deliverables to partners, national and international stakeholde. [...] Build networks and develop databases for surveillance of livestock and aquaculture, and implement the FAIR principles for the monitoring of (re)emerging animal health and welfare issues, and to develop a hazard monitoring and early warning service.