BovINEBeef Innovation Network Europe
BovINEIn the Teaching component, FMV has a teaching staff composed almost exclusively of PhDs and its students are highly motivated, selected in a highly competitive way among the best candidates for Higher Education. FMV offers several cycles of studies leading to an Integrated Master degree in veterinary medicine.
In the research component, FMV comprises the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Animal Health (CIISA) which covers the four major research areas in Veterinary Sciences: Health and Prevention; Medicine and Pathology; Food Safety and Biotechnology and Animal Production, promoting research in close collaboration with more than 100 national and international institutions.
In the Extension and Services to the Community component, FMV has a Veterinary Teaching Hospital, which provides high-level clinical services to an ever-growing population of clients. This Hospital provides outstanding medical and surgical care to most species, covering all clinical and surgery areas in companion animals, horses and farm animals. It includes an ambulatory clinic component for ruminants, mainly dairy and beef cattle.
FMV will be particularly involved in identifying the needs of beef cattle producers in Portugal, taking into account today’s great challenge of promoting more sustainable production. This will be done in close collaboration with the other partner of the BovINE Project in Portugal, PROMERT, as well as with other entities that from the beginning showed interested in collaborating and supporting the project, namely IACA, CONFAGRI, GPP and other farmers’ associations. FMV will be mainly engaged in the co-coordination and work of the Project’s WP 3, regarding the sub-theme Socio-economic resilience, but will also play an active role in two other working groups, namely those involved in the sub-themes dedicated to Animal Health and Welfare (WP4) and to Production Efficiency and Meat Quality (WP5).
FMV-UL will be feeding information to several journals and farmers magazines (Agrotec, Ruminants etc…), so as to comply with one of the project’s main objective – knowledge dissemination.
Magda Aguiar Fontes Agronomist, MSc, PhD, is an Assistant Professor (with Aggregation) at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FMV) of Lisbon University (ULisboa). Her academic group provided several relevant contributions in the fields of consumer beef perceptions and behaviour. Magda Fontes has supervised several postgraduate students and is co-author of different papers published in international refereed journals. She has been involved in former research projects coordination and collaborates with international groups. In 1995 got her PhD in Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne Department of Agricultural Economics and Food Marketing.
George Stilwell DVM, PhD, Diplomate ECBHM, was a practitioner for 15 years and is now Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FMV) of the Lisbon University (ULisboa). His PhD was on pain evaluation and control in cattle. George lectures Farm Animal Clinics as well as Bioethics, including ambulatory clinical work. He is currently also the head of the CIISA’s Animal Behaviour and Welfare Research Lab, conducting research in farm animal welfare assessment, pain management and cattle lameness. George has published 8 books and more than 40 papers in international peer-reviewed journals.
José Pedro Cardoso Lemos DVM, MSc, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the Animal Production and Food Safety Department of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FMV) of Lisbon University (ULisboa). He teaches nutrition, feeding, and animal production subjects, and the main research area is meat quality. He supervised graduate and post-graduate students, has been involved in research projects and is co-author of scientific papers published in international refereed journals.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 rural
renaissance programme | Project No: 862590 under call H2020-RUR-2019-15