It has been a while since the DECIDE project team was able to meet fellow scientists and stakeholders in person – but with life picking back up, on-site meetings & conferences did too. Accordingly, members of the DECIDE consortium started to present the project at events in front of real people instead of computer screens.

In a virtual meeting that took place in April, a webinar organised by the COST Action SOUND control (Standardizing Output-based surveillance to control Non-regulated Diseases of cattle in the EU), Gerdien van Schaik (UU) presented the DECIDE project under the title: “The DECIDE project: a data-driven approach for decision support to better manage endemic diseases

12 July 2021 Today marked the Kick-off of DECIDE H2020, which brings together 19 partners from 11 European countries to address non-EU-regulated contagious animal diseases through data-driven control and prioritisation. In the next 5 years, this consortium will aim to tackle a lack of information on the prevalence and burden of these diseases in cattle, pigs,

DECIDE – Data-driven control and prioritisation of non-EU-regulated contagious animal diseases – has been successfully evaluated by the European Commission as one of the projects submitted under the call topic SFS-10-2020 Epidemiology of non-EU-regulated contagious animal diseases: from integrated data collection to prioritisation. The project brings together a unique multidisciplinary consortium of experts in veterinary