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

2025-11-26
2.500.000 euros
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Call synthesis

Call reference EUBA-EFSA-2025-BIOHAW-01
Programme EU Bodies and Agencies
Institution European Commission
Sectors Agriculture & Fisheries Environment & Climate Health Research & Innovation
Beneficiaries Association & NGO Research centre & university

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Call reference

EUBA-EFSA-2025-BIOHAW-01



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Priorities and funded actions

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

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Financement
  • 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