eFFAB-involved projects
RUMIGEN
From 2021-06-01 to 2026-05-31, ongoing project
RUMIGEN is a Horizon 2020 project launched 1st June 2021. RUMIGEN will run until May 2026 and is coordinated by Eric Pailhoux from INRAE. The project gathers 18 different partners across 9 countries with 13 academic and 5 commercial partners with two pan-European organisations representing the animal breeding sector and animal production researchers.
RUMIGEN aims to produce robust and efficient cattle that can manage the trade-offs between production and adaptation to extreme climate conditions such as heat stress, reduced feed qualities and quantities, and disease pressures. The project is designed with a multi-disciplinary approach that mixes competencies in both genetics and social sciences. The genetics approach aims to improve genomic selection using three levers: quantitative genetic, genome editing and epigenetics.
RUMIGEN is a Horizon 2020 project launched 1st June 2021. RUMIGEN will run until May 2026 and is coordinated by Eric Pailhoux from INRAE. The project gathers 18 different partners across 9 countries with 13 academic and 5 commercial partners with two pan-European organisations representing the animal breeding sector and animal production researchers.
RUMIGEN aims to produce robust and efficient cattle that can manage the trade-offs between production and adaptation to extreme climate conditions such as heat stress, reduced feed qualities and quantities, and disease pressures. The project is designed with a multi-disciplinary approach that mixes competencies in both genetics and social sciences. The genetics approach aims to improve genomic selection using three levers: quantitative genetic, genome editing and epigenetics.
PIGWEB
From 2021-03-01 to 2026-02-28, ongoing project
PIGWEB is a Horizon 2020 project that started on March 1st, 2021. The aim of the project is to strengthen the pig research community by providing and facilitating access to research infrastructures, reinforce a culture of cooperation between the research community and industrial and societal stakeholders, and improve and integrate the services provided by the research infrastructures. The project gathers 16 partners from nine countries.
Twenty-eight installations provide transnational access, allowing external parties to carry out experiments in the PIGWEB installations, funded by the project for a total budget of 1.5 million euro. Transnational access is given to various housing facilities and production systems, slaughterhouses and associated equipment, experimental feed mills, and laboratories to carry out studies on pig nutrition, metabolism, physiology, behavior, and emissions.
The project also focusses on best practices for protocols, standards, and ethics in experimental pig research and on ontologies and Open Data. Joint research activities are carried out to identify and test non- and minimally invasive proxies of efficiency, health, stress, and environmental impact. Also, new methods, tools, and technologies will be developed to measure traits that are currently difficult to measure, related to welfare, behavior, and body composition. Newly developed and available research methods and tools will be tested to carry out integrated phenotyping of pigs.
PIGWEB is a Horizon 2020 project that started on March 1st, 2021. The aim of the project is to strengthen the pig research community by providing and facilitating access to research infrastructures, reinforce a culture of cooperation between the research community and industrial and societal stakeholders, and improve and integrate the services provided by the research infrastructures. The project gathers 16 partners from nine countries.
Twenty-eight installations provide transnational access, allowing external parties to carry out experiments in the PIGWEB installations, funded by the project for a total budget of 1.5 million euro. Transnational access is given to various housing facilities and production systems, slaughterhouses and associated equipment, experimental feed mills, and laboratories to carry out studies on pig nutrition, metabolism, physiology, behavior, and emissions.
The project also focusses on best practices for protocols, standards, and ethics in experimental pig research and on ontologies and Open Data. Joint research activities are carried out to identify and test non- and minimally invasive proxies of efficiency, health, stress, and environmental impact. Also, new methods, tools, and technologies will be developed to measure traits that are currently difficult to measure, related to welfare, behavior, and body composition. Newly developed and available research methods and tools will be tested to carry out integrated phenotyping of pigs.
GENE-SWitCH
From 2019-07-01 to 2023-06-30, ongoing project
GENE-SWitCH aims to deliver new underpinning knowledge on the functional genomes of two main monogastric farm species (pig & chicken) and to enable immediate translation to the pig and poultry sectors. In full coordination and synergy with global effort and ongoing projects of the Functional Annotation of ANimal Genomes (FAANG) community, GENE-SWitCH will characterize the dynamics of the functional genome from embryo (chicken) and fetus (pig) to adult life by targeting a panel of tissues relevant to sustainable production.
The GENE-SWitCH consortium brings together partners representing pan-European excellence (including the academic institutions which pioneered FAANG) and world-leading animal breeding and biotech industry in a true co-creation effort. Overall, the project will contribute to considerably to the global FAANG effort, demonstrate how functional annotation of genomes can foster the advancement of genomic selection for immediate benefit to the breeding industry, and produce cutting-edge research paving the way to new studies and strategies for sustainable productions.
From 2019-07-01 to 2023-06-30, ongoing project
GENE-SWitCH aims to deliver new underpinning knowledge on the functional genomes of two main monogastric farm species (pig & chicken) and to enable immediate translation to the pig and poultry sectors. In full coordination and synergy with global effort and ongoing projects of the Functional Annotation of ANimal Genomes (FAANG) community, GENE-SWitCH will characterize the dynamics of the functional genome from embryo (chicken) and fetus (pig) to adult life by targeting a panel of tissues relevant to sustainable production.
The GENE-SWitCH consortium brings together partners representing pan-European excellence (including the academic institutions which pioneered FAANG) and world-leading animal breeding and biotech industry in a true co-creation effort. Overall, the project will contribute to considerably to the global FAANG effort, demonstrate how functional annotation of genomes can foster the advancement of genomic selection for immediate benefit to the breeding industry, and produce cutting-edge research paving the way to new studies and strategies for sustainable productions.
ROADMAP
From 2019-06-01 to 2023-05-31, ongoing project
ROADMAP will foster transitions towards prudent antimicrobial use (AMU) in animal production in a large variety of contexts, by favouring a rethinking of antimicrobial decision-systems all along the food supply chain. Even if it is possible to learn from successful experiences, there is no “one-size-fits-all” solution to reduce AMU but various strategies working according to local conditions, defined by social, economic, technical and institutional variables. ROADMAP will develop innovative conceptual approaches within a transdisciplinary and multi-actor perspective to engage with animal health professionals, stakeholders and policy-makers.
Through an interdisciplinary and multi-actor perspective, ROADMAP tackles the most important challenge of the fight against AMR, i.e. finding solutions that are adapted to local contexts. It will draw lessons from countries and production systems that have already decreased AMU and rely on successful experiences to build transition scenarios that can mobilize all actors involved in animal health management (from the farmers and the veterinarians to upstream and downstream industries and public authorities).
From 2019-06-01 to 2023-05-31, ongoing project
ROADMAP will foster transitions towards prudent antimicrobial use (AMU) in animal production in a large variety of contexts, by favouring a rethinking of antimicrobial decision-systems all along the food supply chain. Even if it is possible to learn from successful experiences, there is no “one-size-fits-all” solution to reduce AMU but various strategies working according to local conditions, defined by social, economic, technical and institutional variables. ROADMAP will develop innovative conceptual approaches within a transdisciplinary and multi-actor perspective to engage with animal health professionals, stakeholders and policy-makers.
Through an interdisciplinary and multi-actor perspective, ROADMAP tackles the most important challenge of the fight against AMR, i.e. finding solutions that are adapted to local contexts. It will draw lessons from countries and production systems that have already decreased AMU and rely on successful experiences to build transition scenarios that can mobilize all actors involved in animal health management (from the farmers and the veterinarians to upstream and downstream industries and public authorities).
AQUA-FAANG
From 2019-05-01 to 2023-04-30, ongoing project
AQUA-FAANG is a 4-year funded project that will generate genome-wide functional annotation maps for the six commercially most important fish species within European Aquaculture (Turbot, European Seabass, Giltheid seabream, Atlantic salmon, Rainbow trout and Common carp) and exploit their contribution to variation in traits of commercial relevance, focusing on improved resistance to disease.
The project brings together world-leading interdisciplinary expertise and industry partners providing direct pathways to commercial exploitation.
To stay updated on the progress in AQUA-FAANG and register to the mailing list here.
More information on www.aqua-faang.eu
From 2019-05-01 to 2023-04-30, ongoing project
AQUA-FAANG is a 4-year funded project that will generate genome-wide functional annotation maps for the six commercially most important fish species within European Aquaculture (Turbot, European Seabass, Giltheid seabream, Atlantic salmon, Rainbow trout and Common carp) and exploit their contribution to variation in traits of commercial relevance, focusing on improved resistance to disease.
The project brings together world-leading interdisciplinary expertise and industry partners providing direct pathways to commercial exploitation.
To stay updated on the progress in AQUA-FAANG and register to the mailing list here.
More information on www.aqua-faang.eu
GenTORE
From 2017-06-01 to 2022-05-31, ongoing project
GenTORE – “GENomic management Tools to Optimize Resilience and Efficiency” - is a H2020 project that aims to develop innovative genome-enabled selection and management tools to optimize cattle resilience and efficiency (R&E) in widely varying and changing environments.
GenTORE will improve the ability of the European beef and dairy cattle livestock sector to become more resilient and efficient by translating innovative breeding opportunities into practical solutions at farm level.
GenTORE therefore delivers impacts from the farm level up, enhancing innovation capacity through applied breeding technologies and management support tools, and thus creating new market opportunities.
These will strengthen competitiveness and growth, reduce the environmental impact of livestock farming, while engaging with wider societal benefits through comprehensive dissemination of messages of improved welfare and health supporting positive consumer perceptions.
More information is available at www.gentore.eu
From 2017-06-01 to 2022-05-31, ongoing project
GenTORE – “GENomic management Tools to Optimize Resilience and Efficiency” - is a H2020 project that aims to develop innovative genome-enabled selection and management tools to optimize cattle resilience and efficiency (R&E) in widely varying and changing environments.
GenTORE will improve the ability of the European beef and dairy cattle livestock sector to become more resilient and efficient by translating innovative breeding opportunities into practical solutions at farm level.
GenTORE therefore delivers impacts from the farm level up, enhancing innovation capacity through applied breeding technologies and management support tools, and thus creating new market opportunities.
These will strengthen competitiveness and growth, reduce the environmental impact of livestock farming, while engaging with wider societal benefits through comprehensive dissemination of messages of improved welfare and health supporting positive consumer perceptions.
More information is available at www.gentore.eu