The European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare - EUP AH&W

The European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare (EUP AH&W) is a research and innovation initiative that the European Commission (EC) has co-funded to contribute to control infectious diseases of animals, and to promote animal welfare and sustainable food production. Launched in 2024, the partnership brings together over 90 entities from 24 countries across Europe and is expected to last over seven years and form the basis for long-term collaboration and impact. The objectives of the EUP AH&W align with the European Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategy for a fair, healthy, and environmentally friendly food system. Moreover, the partnership has focus on One Health and One Welfare approaches.

Statens Serum Institut takes part in the overarching work package of EUP AH&W that focuses on communication, exploitation, education and dissemination, as well as in a number of the joint internal research projects:

• SOA 6 A European wildlife network for mammals and birds
• SOA 8 Surveillance of pathogens of veterinary importance and their antimicrobial resistance profiles (AMR)
• SOA 10 Rapid Risk Assessment: Improvement of epidemic intelligent methodologies
• SOA 11 Knowledge on priority pathogens, infectious diseases and their detection methods (KNOW-PATH)
• SOA 12 Better tools for diagnosis of infectious diseases (BETO)
• SOA 21 Develop tools such as vaccine platforms and expression systems, immunological toolboxes and delivery system
• SOA 22 Assess the economic and societal burden of selected priority diseases

Additional information on the EUP AH&W: https://eupahw.eu

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