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The partnership aims to deliver key knowledge, services and products to significantly improve the control of animal infectious diseases and animal welfare in a coordinated way which will sustain animal production and protect public health. It involves laboratories, funding agencies and the private sector.
By 2030, programmes will be further aligned, the animal health and welfare research and innovation ecosystem will be stronger, improving preparedness and providing additional solutions to prevent, detect and respond to priority infectious animal diseases, fight antimicrobial resistance, and improve animal welfare.
The partnership will launch its second external co-funded research and innovation call "shaping the future of animal health and welfare" during the course of January 2026. The Call will aim to foster international collaboration and impactful research and innovation across Europe and will be supported by funding organisations across 19 countries. Proposals submitted under this Call must address animal welfare or prevention and control and spanning welfare assessment, humane transport and slaughter, disease prevention, resilience, therapeutics, and innovation. You can find more information about the call on this website.
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Commission services: Jean-Charles Cavitte, Valerio Abbadessa
Partners: Ugent Nathalie Vanderheijden VLAIO Jef Willems
Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.
pascal.verheye@vlaio.be
The UNCHAIN project, ‘urban logistics and planning: anticipating urban freight generation and demand including digitalisation of urban freight’ obtained funding from the Horizon Europe’s Mobility Cluster. The project focuses on breaking down data silos and promoting public-private data exchange across a unified European mobility data space, enabling more informed decisions and greater efficiency. The City of Mechelen is a partner in the project and takes on the role of ‘follower city’: it will work alongside the primary demonstration sites (in Madrid, Berlin and Florence) to maximize the geographical coverage and replicability of solutions across Europe. Mechelen aims to test 2 concrete solutions in the UNCHAIN project, with the aim to help addressing its current and future challenges in urban freight distribution.
