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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 has launch its second external co-funded research and innovation call "shaping the future of animal health and welfare" in January 2026. The Call aims to foster international collaboration and impactful research and innovation across Europe and will be supported by funding organisations across 19 countries. 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
Avia-GIS is a Belgian innovative SME established in 2001. They have built research and public authority trust over the past 19 years and developed a unique, disruptive software suite - VECMAP® - that supports society to overcome one of its important health threats, the spreading of Pests of Public Health importance.
With the help of a Horizon 2020 SME Instrument Phase 2 project, they will be able to add Integrated Pest Management functionalities and go to the market. With the grant, that was an essential component of their second investment round, Avia-GIS aims at raising its revenue from the current 2 M€ to 14.2 M€ in 2024, and increase the headcount from 15 to 58.