Brussels, 1 December 2022: Over 250 delegates from the beef farming community across Europe gathered online to hear from BovINE partners, whilst influential EU policy-players from DG Agri, DG Sante, Copa-Cogeca and EUFRAS attended an in-person presentation in the afternoon at the project’s final dissemination conference.

Online presentations by partners focused on sharing good practice solutions from across the project’s four themes of animal health & welfare, socioeconomic resilience, production efficiency & meat quality and environmental sustainability.   Simultaneous translation into Spanish, Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Italian, Polish and Portuguese ensured effective knowledge exchange with the European beef farming community. 

DG AGRI’s Diego Canga Fano, newly appointed lead on Research, Outreach and Geographical Indications and BovINE’s guest speaker said:

 “DG AGRI recognises and appreciates the valuable work of BovINE in providing evidence-based knowledge to create solutions for farmers as well as insights for policymakers and all stakeholders. BovINE’s innovations will contribute to ensuring that livestock production plays its part in securing a sustainable and circular food system.”

Information on the research innovations and good practices generated by the network and the ‘on farm’ demonstrations arranged by partners are available to access on the BovINE Knowledge Hub (BKH). The project’s website provides links to a wealth of additional resources including animations, webinars and multi-language materials accessed via the country flags of the nine partner countries.

BovINE Network was invited by GenTORE project to their Final Stakeholder Event, called ‘Match Fit Cows: Tools to optimise resilience and efficiency for tomorrow’s farming conditions’, as a satellite event during the World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production (WCGALP) that took place in De Doelen, Rotterdam the 3rd of July 2022.

The event attracted 46 attendees including GenTORE project partners, researchers, cattle farmers, advisors and representatives from breeding companies. The event was held in person and broadcast live on YouTube – you can watch the recording here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neuPs6hypUA. Presentations at the event showcased the results of 5-year research from different aspects of GenTORE’s main outcomes, leading to a panel discussion.

Virginia Resconi (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) presented the BovINE European Network as a synergistic project, showing a way in which relevant results can be disseminated for on-farm implementation. Her presentation can be seen in the video window, or via this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyJKVNSTZXc

Spanish partners from the BoviNE project were present at the “42^o Congresso Paranaense dos Estudantes de Zootecnia” held in Maringá, Brazil on 14th September 2022 . The event is organized annually by the Zootechnics (Animal Science) academics from the State University of Maringá (Universidade Estadual de Maringá – UEM). The event attracts animal science academics  from the Paraná region, who are interested in knowing more about various issues related to animal production. This year, the theme of the Congress was: “The farm that feeds the world”, and had around 80 attendees.