Project objectives

 
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Transnational access (TNA)

  • Ensure easy and transparent access to 28 experimental pig RI and associated laboratories in 9 different countries.

Networking Activities (NA)

  • Create a community of pig RI by mapping installations beyond the partners of the project and identifying future research needs in the pig production sector.

  • Harmonise protocols, best practices, and promote the use of standards to ensure high levels of expertise and ethics.

  • Organise the collection, management, and accessibility of data generated by the project.

  • Ensure dissemination, exploitation, and technology transfer of results generated by the project.

  • Provide graduate and post-graduate training opportunities to early-career scientists to ensure the succession of a new generation of highly trained experts in the fields of pig production.


Joint Research Activities (JRA)

  • Develop non- or minimally invasive methods for digestion studies and blood sampling to replace current procedures requiring surgery and invasive sampling, isolation, fixation and/or spatial restrictions of pigs.

  • Develop novel methods, tools, and technologies that provide indicators of welfare, behaviour, and body composition.

  • Develop a research toolbox to phenotype pigs for traits relevant for sustainable pig production, using data obtained through non- or minimally invasive measurements and model algorithms.