SCAR Working Group on Animal Health

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SCAR Working Group on Animal Health

• Improving collaboration on research activities.
• Creating critical mass and focus to deliver the
  animal health and welfare research needs .

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Possible activities of Working Group-2

• Map the landscape of national, EU and
  international RTD programmes in pilot work
  area(s).
• 2. Map programme objectives against relevant
  policy drivers.
• 3. Identify gaps.

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Possible activities of Working Group-2

• 4. Assess research capacities and identify
  shortfalls.
• 5. Establish common agreement on priorities.
• 6. Develop mechanisms for cooperation on
  procurement.

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Animal Health ERA-NET

• Coordination of European research in the area of
  animal health, including emerging threats,
  infectious diseases and surveillance

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Animal Health ERA-NET-2

• This ERA-NET will help to coordinate national
  research activities and identify common research
  programmes and will, thus, fight fragmentation
  and exploit synergies between such programmes.

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Scope of EMIDA

• The scope of the project will include emerging
  and major infectious diseases of production
  animals, including fish and bees and including
  those conditions which pose a threat to human
  health but excluding food safety issues relating
  to livestock products and diseases of wildlife,
  except where they act as a reservoir of infection
  for humans and animals.

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EMIDA

• 26 partners in 19 countries and three associated
  partners
• Combined research budget in the region of 270
  million Euros

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EMIDA

• Better sharing of information of current
  activities
• Better coordination of the national research
  programmes
• Developing common research agendas
• Joint/common research calls
• Building research capacity relating to animal
  health

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EMIDA structure

• WP1. Project coordination, management,
  communication and dissemination
• WP2. Mapping and analysis of existing research
  and current needs and information on the
  commissioning and management of joint programmes

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EMIDA structure - 2

• WP3. Develop, test, evaluate and refine
  instruments (Pilots)
• WP4. Developing a strategic trans-national
  animal health research agenda

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Common research calls

• In response to policy requirements
• In response to gap analysis
• Basic/strategic science Strategic/applied
  science
• Joint funding with industry

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• www.scar-cwg-ahw.org

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Project management

• Project Consortium a representative of each
  partner organisation.
• Network Management Group the leaders and
  deputy-leaders of the Work Packages.
• Coordinator and Project Office/Secretariat.
• Strategy Board and Advisory Group

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