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DECIDE Newsletter #2 | June 2024

Welcome to the second issue of the DECIDE newsletter! The newsletter serves as aresource to share recent updates and developments of the DECIDE project, exciting results, milestones and insights into the work within the consortium. This issue includes news on the DECIDE traffic light study by Angela Bearth (ETHZ), updates on a new DECIDE explainer

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Upcoming: DECIDE General Assembly Nantes

From June 25-27, 2024, the DECIDE consortium will gather for the project’s third in-person General Assembly meeting in Nantes, France. The DECIDE consortium is set to hold its third in-person General Assembly meeting in Nantes, France, from June 25-27, 2024. This event is hosted by DECIDE partner INRAE, the French National Research Institute for Agriculture,

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Watch: GBADs & DECIDE Seminar Series #4

“Data for Policy Making: Insights from GBADs and FVE’s Research and Policy Impact” – is the title of the fourth edition of the GBADs and DECIDE seminar series hosted by Prof. Dr. Brecht Devleesschauwer (Sciensano) and Yeal Dotan (FVE); which took place on Monday, February 19, 2024. Watch the recording below:  The focus of the

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DECIDE Newsletter #1 | October 2023

Welcome to the first issue of the DECIDE newsletter! The newsletter serves as aresource to share recent updates and developments of the DECIDE project, exciting results, milestones and insights into the work within the consortium. This issue includes news on the DECIDE barometer by Jade Bokma (UGent), Miel Hostens (UU) and Bart Pardon (UGent), insights into the collaborations in the project

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Introducing the cattle barometer: DECIDE at EBC and ECVM 2023

Over the past months, the DECIDE cattle group has been introducing the cattle barometer, one of the DECIDE pilot tools, at international conferences around Europe. From August 24-26, Dr. Jade Bokma (UGent) attended the European Buiatrics Congress in Berlin, Germany, followed by the 5th International Conference Of The European College Of Veterinary Microbiology in Bled, Slovenia from September

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Watch: GBADs & DECIDE Seminar Series #3

“Estimations of greenhouse gasses emissions and the welfare burden of animal diseases: Exploring sustainability in livestock production” – is the title of the third edition of the GBADs and DECIDE seminar series hosted by Dr. Beatriz Garcia Morante (IRTA) Armando Rivera Moncada (Université libre de Bruxelles) which took place on Tuesday, September, 2023.   Armando Rivera

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Translating user needs into tools – DECIDE WP5 workshop

What do end-users of data-driven decision-making tools want? What are their needs and how do we translate these into the pilots developed within DECIDE?  Following the last in-person General Assembly meeting held in Copenhagen in June of this year, DECIDE’s work package 5 (WP5) represented by Jasmeet Kaleer, Charlotte Doidge (UoN) and Laura Palczynski (IfA) invited

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The DECIDE project holds its 2nd in-person General Assembly

From June 27-28, the DECIDE consortium gathered for the 2023 in-person General Assembly meeting. Bringing together just over 50 attendees from all 19 project partners, the event marked the successful start of the second half of the DECIDE project. “Discuss, update, socialise!” “Discuss progress, challenges and successes, stay up-to-date with the activities, and socialise!” With

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Upcoming: DECIDE General Assembly Copenhagen

From June 27-28 2023, the DECIDE consortium will gather for the project’s second in-person General Assembly meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark.  We are pleased to announce that the next DECIDE General Assembly meeting will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, from June 27th to 28th, 2023. Hosted by our project partner at the University of Copenhagen (UPCH),

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DECIDE at ISESSAH 2023

From June 13-15, the DECIDE consortium attended this year’s ISESSAH conference in Helsinki, Finland. Last week, members of the DECIDE consortium attended the 2023 International ISESSAH Conference held in Helsinki, Finland from 13-15 June. Under the theme “Understanding stakeholder behaviour and socio-economic implications of practices and policies of animal health,” the conference provided a valuable

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Next Events

DECIDE Final Event | Brussels, Belgium

Recent Events

SVEPM Conference | London, UK

ISESSAH Conference | Utrecht, NL

DECIDE General Assembly | Uppsala, SE

TechCare project final conference | Brussels, BE & online

ESPHM Conference | Bern, CH

SVEPM Conference | Berlin, DE

ISVEE17 | Sydney, AUS

ECPFL 2024 | Bologna, IT

EAAP2024 | Florence, IT

ModAH 2024 | Nantes, FR

DECIDE General Assembly | Nantes, FR

BFSA Symposium | Brussels, BE

IPVS & ESPM 2024 | Leipzig, DE

“Harnessing the power of data – veterinary perspective” | Science Briefing to tackle AMR | Uppsala SE

“Deep mechanistic model: Integrating deep learning and stochastic mechanistic approaches for Bovine Respiratory Diseases diagnosis and epidemiological forecasting” SVEPM | Uppsala SE

“Using data to support day-to-day health management of farmed Atlantic salmon” FSV 2024 | Edinburgh, SCT

“Data to support health management of maricultured salmonids in Scotland” AquaEpi III | New Delhi, IN

“Innovation in Veterinary Medicine – practical approaches to using Big Data” TOPRA Veterinary Medicines Symposium | Portugal, PT

DECIDE workshop on state space models for animal health surveillance | Copenhagen, DK

“GLEAM model and the welfare burden of animal diseases: Exploring sustainability in livestock production” | GBADs & DECIDE Seminar Series, online 

DECIDE General Assembly | Copenhagen, DK

SRA Europe 2023 | Lund, SE

ISSESAH 2023 | Helsinki, FI

The burden of endemic respiratory disease in pigs: developing farm-level tools to monitor pig health and improve disease control | Online Webinar

SVEPM 2023 | Toulouse, FR

EMA Second Veterinary Big Data stakeholder forum | Online
Speakers Prof. Dr. Gerdien van Schaik (UU), and Dr. Miel Hostens (UU). 

VPHI Webinar | Online
“Collecting stakeholder perspectives on animal health and welfare: Needs and challenges related to data use analysis visualisations and sharing”, Dr. Angela Bearth (ETHZ)

HAVBRUK 2022 | Bergen, NO

ECPLF 2022 | Vienna, AUT 

ISVEE 2022 | Halifax, CA
Presentation “The DECIDE project: from surveillance data to decision support for farmers and veterinarians” by Marloes Boeters (UU)

Annette Boerlage (SRUC) and João Afonso (UoL) will also present at ISVEE 2022.

XXIV JORNADAS DE PORCINO DE LA UAB Y AVPC | Barcelona, ES 
Presentation: DECIDE: towards the development of tools that allow better control of endemic diseases by Beatriz Garcia Morante (IRTA) 

General Assembly | Zurich, CH

British Pig and Poultry Fair | Warwickshire, UK

ICAHS 2022 | Copenhagen, DK

Precision Livestock Farming workshop | Wageningen, NL 
Presentation of DECIDE by Carolina Merca (UCPH)

SOUND control webinar | Virtual
Presentation “The DECIDE project: a data-driven approach for decision support to better manage endemic diseases in cattle, pigs, poultry and salmon” by Gerdien van Schaik (UU). 

General Assembly | Virtual

Cluster meeting for livestock-related projects | Virtual Event organised by the European Research Executive Agency

Kick-off meeting | Virtual

The DECIDE project starts!