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.