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The UAB will be part of the new reference center for the welfare of aquatic animals that the European Union has created, jointly with the University of Crete (Greece), the Biology Center of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Parasitology (Czech Republic). ).
The Center for Aquatic Animal Welfare has been created with the aim of offering support and assistance to the European Commission and EU countries in the application of animal welfare requirements on farms, during transport and in the moment of sacrifice of the animals. He has been appointed through a public selection process.
This is the fourth EU center dedicated to animal welfare. The first EU reference center is focused on pig welfare (created in 2028), the second specializes in avian and other small farm animals (202), and the third on the welfare of ruminants and horses (2020 ).
The new center will support the activities of the Commission and member states by carrying out scientific and technical studies, as well as organizing training courses and disseminating research results and information on technical innovations.
The UAB faculty and researchers want to highlight the “support we have received for the candidacy, from the first moment, from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the Government of Spain.”
With this integration in the new center, the UAB positions itself even more as a European reference in animal welfare. In the powerful collective of research groups such as AWEC (Animal Welfare Education Center), SINIBA (Animal Nutrition and Welfare Service) and others in animal welfare from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the UABk, they are added, on the part of aquatics, the fish health research group of the same Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, led by Professor Francesc Padrós, and the stress and well-being in fish group of the Faculty of Biosciences, led by Professor Lluís Tort. These teams also have the support of SEAaq, an interdisciplinary research group at the UAB in the field of ecosystem and aquatic animal health.
