Fitter Livestock Farming Project Group: Towards a Sustainable European Livestock Farming!
Fitter Livestock Farming Project Group organises two workshops, providing a discussion forum for their collaborative Policy Paper. Two workshops focused on sustainable and competitive livestock production in Europe should be brought to your attention. The first one, on 28th August 2019, is part of the programme of the European Federation for Animal Science (EAAP) Annual […]
Guidelines for validation of sensor output: read the interesting document!
Nowadays in cattle research infrastructures a large amount of data is recorded using new smart technologies on a routine basis or for experimental purposes. However, there is a lack of a common approach for validation of such devices. Thus, the SmartCow consortium propose guidelines for validation of sensor output that highlights a checklist to consider […]
Participate to SmartCow survey!
SmartCow has set out among its first priorities and outcomes in cattle research to give a harmonized description of the European facilities. SmartCow wants to establish an inventory of all existing cattle research infrastructures across Europe, so it has set on its website an interactive map of these infrastructures, allowing web users to get all the […]
3 open positions as Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark
The Department of Animal Science, Aarhus University, invites highly qualified applicants for three assistant professor positions in: 1) Epigenetics 2) High throughput sequencing and bioinformatics 3) Ruminant microbiome and its function The positions are available from 1 January 2020 or soon thereafter. Application deadline: May 19th, 2019. For more and detailed information please visit the […]
Second TNA call is launched!
SmartCow Transnational Access: Second Call for proposals launched Free access to the leading European cattle research facilities We are pleased to announce the launch of the second call for proposals for Transnational Access (TNA) within the SmartCow project. The TNA call makes available cattle research facilities of SmartCow partners for research by academic or industry […]
The updated training catalogue is available!
Interested in feed efficiency of cattle and methane emissions? Join the SmartCow training program! Seven training courses are scheduled for September and October 2019, dealing with topics such as feed efficiency of beef and dairy cattle and methane emissions; gold standard methods to assess key phenotypes in ruminant nutrition; and measurement techniques and proxies for […]
2nd SmartCow newsletter is now available!
The 2nd SmartCow newsletter is now available! Enjoy your reading at: https://bit.ly/2CGzmXi For receiving the future issues please sign up here.
First SmartCow Annual Meeting in Dumfries, United Kingdom
Following the study tours organised by the Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), the first annual meeting was held in Dumfries from 6th to 8th March 2019. It brought together 34 people representing the 14 project partners. One year after the start of the project, this meeting aimed to take stock of the work done during the […]
New funding opportunity for dairy and beef research!
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1st Study Tour 5-6 March 2019 – Deadline registration 13 February 2019!
The 1st SmartCow Study tour will be held on 5th-6th March 2019 at Scotland Rural College – SRUC (UK)! If you are a stakeholder, scientist, technician or student in cattle production, from any EU country… If you feel concerned about issues of innovations to improve feed efficiency, reduce GHG emissions and improve the welfare of […]