special sessions at thessaloniki

In addition to the Scientific Sessions, the Final Dairycare Conference also features three Special Sessions:
  • Current Project Awareness
  • Planning for Future Project Opportunities
  • Blueprint for Action and Dissemination

Current project AWARENESS
​MONDAY, 11.35

The aim of the Current Project Awareness session is to inform delegates about relevant going and planned projects.

A panel of nine speakers will briefly introduce their project, and at the end of the session there will be time for questions and discussion. 

Some of these projects are new and do not yet have a website. Those that do have a website are listed below so that you can visit them before the session if you wish to.
EU H2020 4D4F Thematic Network http://www.4d4f.eu/
EU H2020 SheepNet Network http://www.sheepnet.network/
EU H2020 IoF2020  https://www.iof2020.eu/
UK Agri-EPI Centre https://www.agri-epicentre.com/
EU ERA-NET ARIMNet2 http://www.arim-perform.net
EU H2020 Project iSAGE  http://www.isage.eu/

planning for future project opportunities
tuesday, 08.50 and 11.45

Our special guest for the Thessaloniki Conference is Denis Simonon, Head of Animal Welfare Sector at EU Commission. He will talk about the importance of research at 08.50 on Tuesday.

Starting at 11.45 on Tuesday we shall have an open discussion session to identify how we might target future research funding opportuntities.  Three relevant topics are described below. If you are aware of other funding opportunities please email us
h2020-wp1820-food_en.pdf
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H2020 has a Call open for "Improving Animal Welfare". Specifically in 2019 there is an Innovation Action call in Precision Livestock Farming, described on page 23 of the Work Programme document.
An Innovation Action is beyond basic research and could include protype testing, for example. The formal description of the type of work is also available for download.
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The latest official UK statement on future participation in H2020 is available to download here, and there is further information online
The agricultural European Innovation Partnership works to foster sustainable farming. One mechanism is to establish Focus Groups, experts sharing knowledge and experience focused on a specific topic, such as dairy animal wellbeing 
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dairycare blueprint for action and dissemination
​tuesday, 15.30

The DairyCare Blueprint for Action is one of the five major deliverables from the project, and we have follow-on funding to publish this as a special issue of Journal of Dairy Research, co-funded by the owners of the Journal, the Hannah Dairy Research Foundation. Visit Deliverables

DairyCare Out There is the Action's Dissemination Strategy, and was the topic of a recent focused Workshop of members and journalists in Brussels. A major outcome from that meeting was a proposal to seek crowd-funding support for continued networking based around the existing DairyCare website. Visit Dissemination

Various dissemination documents can be downloaded from the of the website including a new draft of a Press Release  "Technology for Happy Cows". Visit Press Release

Our network of around 700 researchers gives us an opportunity to build a scientific dissemination library either in house or via a social media outlet such as ResearchGate.
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The Dairycare Blueprint and Dissemination session will be an open discussion forum structured around the topics identified here, with follow-on break out groups on each of the four topics. This structure is flexible and could be modified if other topics arise that are felt to be more important.

The funding for the Blueprint for Action identified a  potential structure for the document built around a series of research articles. This can be downloaded below. However, please recognize that this was a draft that now needs to be worked into a final document. We shall upload more information before the Conference. Keep watching!
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The 4D4F Data Driven Dairy Decisions for Farmers project has recnetlypublished their own Report assessing future research needs. This has direct relevance to our own BluePrint. You can download it below, or visit the 4D4F website Richard Lloyd will present the 4D4F project in our Current Awareness session
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