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Project Details
Description
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 → 31/03/24 |
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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Overcoming barriers to on-farm technology adoption
Davy McCracken (Invited speaker)
7 Sept 2022Activity: Talk, evidence or presentation types › Invited talk
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Frontiers in Animal Science (Journal)
Claire Morgan-Davies (Member of editorial board)
14 Jun 2021 → 31 Jan 2022Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial work
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EAAP (External organisation)
Claire Morgan-Davies (Member)
Aug 2019 → …Activity: Membership types › Membership of committee
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Localisation of sheep using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) proximity
Walker, A., Jonsson, N., Waterhouse, A., McDougall, H., Kenyon, F., McLaren, A. & Morgan-Davies, C., Apr 2023, Animal - science proceedings: Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science. 2 ed. Vol. 14. p. 371 1 p. 116Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
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TechCare UK pilots - Integrated sheep system studies using technologies for welfare monitoring
McLaren, A., Waterhouse, A., Kenyon, F., MacDougall, H., Beechener, ES., Walker, A., Reeves, MR., Lambe, NR., Holland, JP., Thomson, AT., Duncan, J., Barnes, AP., Dwyer, CM., Gimbert, F., Gautier, J-M., Tesniere, G. & Morgan-Davies, C., 28 Aug 2023, (First published) Book of Abstracts of the 74th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science. Wageningen Academic PublishersResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Virtual fencing systems: balancing production and welfare outcomes
Waterhouse, T., 2 Sept 2023, (First published) In: Livestock. 28, 5, p. 227-234 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review