FITTER LIVESTOCK FARMING WORKSHOP: Presentations are now available!
Presentations of the Fitter Livestock Farming Workshop “What R&I can deliver to support climate mitigation and adaptation in livestock farming”, held on November 6th 2019 afternoon in Brussels, are now available on the Animal Task Force’s website at: https://bit.ly/2KG7ciX
Only 10 days to register to the Fitter Livestock stakeholder workshop!
A joint event ATF – Fitter Livestock Farming PG will be held on 6th November afternoon in Brussels during the 2019 Animal Task Force annual meeting. The workshop “What R&I can deliver to support climate mitigation and adaptation in livestock farming” will bring together animal scientists with livestock professionals and advisors, as well as researchers, […]
Deadline 2nd TNA Call: 30 September 2019!
Don’t miss the chance to participate in the 2nd TNA Call! Deadline 30 September 2019. For more info and application visit the TNA webpage.
The 3rd SmartCow newsletter is now available!
The 3rd SmartCow newsletter is now available! Enjoy your reading at: https://bit.ly/2kHAoMO For receiving the future issues please sign up here.
Fitter Livestock Farming group – joint tools!
Smartcow participates with five other EU-funded projects (Feed-a-Gene, Image, Saphir, GplusE, GenTORE) in the CDB Fitter Livestock Farming, a joint tool created by the European Commission, with its financial support, and coordinated by Trust IT-Services. These six projects are closely related to each other, with similar objectives. The idea is to help them collaborating, developing synergies, […]
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 […]