The organizing committee is pleased to announce that the ECPLF and PDC will be held as a parallel event from August 29th to September 2nd, 2022.

For more information and registration, please visit ECPLF 2022's website.

The 15th International Symposium on Digestive Physiology of Pigs (DPP2022) will take place on 17 – 20 May 2022. The symposium will be held in Rotterdam, The Netherlands (venue “De Doelen”).

For more information, please visit the website.

The ESPHM – as a large annual event with over 1,500 participants – provides a sparkling environment for extending professional and social networks, especially for young graduates and researchers. This might encourage more young colleagues to pursue a career in swine health management. Such an event in a Central European city is an excellent opportunity to strengthen cooperation among professionals from all over Europe, thus improving the competitiveness of the EU pig industry. Check the website for more details.

The 4th International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance (ICAHS4) will take place on 3-5 May 2022 in Copenhagen. The key to effective surveillance that supports animal health, food safety and public health is to bring together scientists, food production representatives and policymakers to understand what is needed and how it can be done with benefits for everyone. For more information, please visit the website.

Swine Days is co-organized annually by IFIP and INRAE for 50 years and it aims to provide the results of the applied research alongside players of the swine sector. For more information, please visit the website.

72nd Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science will take place in Davos, Switzerland between 30 August - 03 September 2021. This year's theme is "Scientific solutions to different demands on the livestock sector".

For more information and abstract submissions, please visit EAAP 2021's website.

The WAFL conference is an international scientific conference on the assessment of animal welfare at farm and group level, held once every three years. We hope that you can join us at the virtual conference in August (16-19th), to share and learn about advances in this field of study, and help to strengthen connections between animal welfare scientists around the world. Communications on any topic related to the assessment of animal welfare are very welcome, particularly those which fall into the following themes:

• Transdisciplinary approaches to measuring animal welfare

• Back to basics: practical solutions to improve animal welfare

• Animal health and welfare: Interchangeable or interdependent?

• The role of animal welfare in addressing global grand challenges

• Humans in the animal welfare loop

For more information, please visit the website.