European Union Bodies and Agencies – EFSA – Pathway to animal welfare quantitative risk assessment: piloting a harmonised collection of welfare data in pigs – 2024

Objectives

• To select (existing and new) animal-based measures (ABMs) and related management-, resources- and environmental-based (so called ‘context’) data from sows and piglets and from different housing systems and practices, including slaughter
• To collect in the field on a large scale and in a harmonised way across EU MSs. These data are to be used for developing a freely accessible prototype Database for analysing the correlation between ABMs and related context data and enabling future quantitative risk assessment of the welfare on-farm of sows and piglet

Priorities

• Priority 1: To conclude with a direct agreement for the execution of specific tasks over a clearly defined period as outlined in this call for proposals
• Priority 2: To pilot a harmonised and large-scale collection of welfare data from sows and piglets across EU MSs for enabling future quantitative risk assessment of the welfare of sows and piglets on farm

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Applicants must be on the list of competent organisations designated by the Member States: Click here 
• A consortium composed of at least 4 entities must be constituted. To search for consortium partners: Click here 

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 36 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: 1.5 million euro
• Amount of the grant: 1.5 million euro
• Funding rate: up to 90% of the total eligible costs