European Union Bodies and Agencies – Animal Welfare: heat stress in livestock during transport – 2024

Objective

To develop and validate a mathematical algorithm that can estimate the effective temperature inside a livestock truck.

Priorities

• Priority 1: The development of an algorithm or model that describes the relationship between weather forecasting data, ventilation in the truck, space allowance and the internal microclimatic conditions  in a livestock vehicle
• Priority 2: To validate the algorithm during livestock transport

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be on the list of competent organisations designated by the Member States: Click here
• Be a single applicant or a consortium of eligible organisations

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 18 months
• Contact: EFSAProcurement@efsa.europa.eu

Useful

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

• Total budget of the call: 402.900 euro
• Amount of the grant: 402.900 euro
• Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs