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Description
TechCare is a multi-actor approach project aiming to develop appropriate business models using innovative technologies to improve welfare management for all EU small ruminant (SR) systems, to enable stakeholders to choose animal welfare-friendly products. SRs play a key socio-economic role in Europe, especially in harsh environments where innovative technology is not much implanted. SRs are often managed as a flock/herd, allowing only average welfare states to be considered. Innovative technologies are a unique opportunity to monitor and improve SR welfare management at the individual or flock/herd level, along the value chain.
Based on SR welfare state-of-the-art, TechCare will undertake a multi-actor approach to encapsulate stakeholders’ expectations in terms of welfare and innovative technologies, and provide them with adapted solutions, in a co-design approach. TechCare will cover all stages of SR production and build novel welfare approaches to develop and validate tools, early warning systems, algorithms and indicators for efficient identification of welfare issues, including positive welfare, to include them in welfare management models. The innovative technologies identified in TechCare will pass different stages of validation, from prototyping to large scale studies. TechCare identified solutions will therefore be replicable and adapted to different SR systems, production purposes, and value chains, for improvement of SR welfare management EU-wide.
Business models will be constructed and validated with stakeholders. Dissemination, communication and exploitation materials will be produced and widely shared for easy use of TechCare solutions, ensuring their uptake and relevance to all sectors and stakeholders.
TechCare will offer a durable improvement of SR welfare management using innovative technologies along the whole value chain and across the EU, and will act as an example in terms of approach and solutions for other species and production systems.
Based on SR welfare state-of-the-art, TechCare will undertake a multi-actor approach to encapsulate stakeholders’ expectations in terms of welfare and innovative technologies, and provide them with adapted solutions, in a co-design approach. TechCare will cover all stages of SR production and build novel welfare approaches to develop and validate tools, early warning systems, algorithms and indicators for efficient identification of welfare issues, including positive welfare, to include them in welfare management models. The innovative technologies identified in TechCare will pass different stages of validation, from prototyping to large scale studies. TechCare identified solutions will therefore be replicable and adapted to different SR systems, production purposes, and value chains, for improvement of SR welfare management EU-wide.
Business models will be constructed and validated with stakeholders. Dissemination, communication and exploitation materials will be produced and widely shared for easy use of TechCare solutions, ensuring their uptake and relevance to all sectors and stakeholders.
TechCare will offer a durable improvement of SR welfare management using innovative technologies along the whole value chain and across the EU, and will act as an example in terms of approach and solutions for other species and production systems.
Status | Active |
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Effective start/end date | 1/09/20 → 31/08/25 |
Funding
- European Commission
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This project contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Keywords
- business models
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Ecological issues in mountain farming systems
McCracken, D. (Keynote speaker)
5 Jun 2024Activity: Talk, evidence or presentation types › Invited talk
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Challenges and opportunities facing upland livestock systems in Scotland
McCracken, D. (Invited speaker)
9 Apr 2024Activity: Talk, evidence or presentation types › Invited talk
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Overcoming barriers to on-farm technology adoption
McCracken, D. (Invited speaker)
7 Sept 2022Activity: Talk, evidence or presentation types › Invited talk
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Development of a novel Bluetooth Low Energy device for proximity and location monitoring in grazing sheep
Walker, A., Jonsson, N. N., Waterhouse, A., McDougall, H., Kenyon, F., McLaren, A. & Morgan-Davies, C., 25 Jul 2024, (First published) In: Animal. 101276.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Review: Exploring the use of Precision Livestock Farming for small ruminant welfare management
Morgan-Davies, C., Tesniere, G., Gautier, J.-M., Jorgensen, G. H. M., Gonzalez-Garcia, E., Patsios, S., Sossidou, E., Keady, T. W., McClearn, B., Kenyon, F., Caja, G., Grova, L., Decandia, M., Czizster, L., Halachmi, I. & Dwyer, C., 2 Jul 2024, (First published) In: Animal. 101233.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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The impact of gastrointestinal parasitism on the behaviour and welfare of weaned housed lambs
Reeves, M., Booth, N., Fox, N., Donbavand, J., Jack, M., Kenyon, F., Martin, J. E., Baxter, E. & Dwyer, C., Jul 2024, In: Applied Animal Behaviour Science. 276, 106323.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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