EU Bodies and Agencies (EUBA) – Welfare monitoring: data driven risk assessment in fast and slower growing broilers (BROWARD) – 2025

Objectives

• To produce and analyse a dataset from primary field data on animal-based measures (ABMs) reflecting broiler chicken welfare, along with contextual, resource-based, and management-based data from various housing systems and practices in farms and slaughterhouses
• To test how three interventions—stocking density, elevated platforms, and dark brooders—affect broiler chicken welfare, and to share all data in an open-access dataset

Priorities

• Priority 1: To map and select ABMs and contextual data (MBMs and RBMs) to assess broiler chicken welfare on farms using a defined protocol
• Priority 2: To collect field data on ABMs and contextual information for broiler chickens on farms and at slaughterhouses
• Priority 3: To develop and establish a dataset with ABMs, RBMs, and MBMs to support future risk assessments
• Priority 4: To conduct experiments on fast- and slower-growing broiler genotypes to assess the separate effects of interventions on stocking density, elevated structures, and dark brooders

Among financed actions 

• Organise the kick-off meeting with EFSA and deliver an inception report with agenda, minutes, and Gantt chart
• Develop and deliver a full training programme for field evaluators, including fieldwork and refresher sessions
• Prepare the final project report and a 40-slide presentation for EFSA summarising project results
• Submit at least three scientific publications based on the experimental studies, with FAIR data sharing
• Present field data collection results in a narrative report and a 20-slide presentation for EFSA

Eligibility 

• Applicants must be on the list of competent organisations designated by the Member States in accordance with Article 36 of Regulation (EC) 178/2002 and Commission Regulation (EC) 2230/2004 (Click here)
• A consortium composed of at least 2 entities, established in at least 1 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted

Additional information 

• Initial duration of the action: 48 months
• Contact: EFSAProcurement@efsa.europa.eu

Useful 

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 2.500.000 euros
  • Deliverable 1: 32.500 euros
  • Deliverable 2: 91.000 euros
  • Deliverable 3: 21.100 euros
  • Deliverable 4: 85.500 euros
  • Deliverable 5: 113.850 euros
  • Deliverable 6: 203.100 euros
  • Deliverable 7: 631.680 euros
  • Deliverable 8: 108.000 euros
  • Deliverable 9: 1.144.420 euros
  • Deliverable 10: 68.850 euros
• Amount of the grant: 2.500.000 euros