COST ACTION CA21124

Lifting Farm Animal Lives - laying the foundations for positive animal welfare

About the Action

‘LIFT’ is a 4-year EU funded COST Action project which will provide the background for including positive welfare in farm animal welfare assessment. The Action started in November 2022 and will continue to November 2026. Currently, the Action has more than 350 members from 40 different countries. 

Our WG2.3 aims to understand how choice can be transformed from a concept into something measurable that can be used to assess or improve positive animal welfare.

Pralle Kriengwatana

To successfully translate the knowledge of positive animal welfare to the real world, we need to listen and engage with stakeholders.

Heng-Lun Ko

WG3.5 is conducting an extensive review of feasible technologies that can be used on farms to assess and monitor positive welfare.

Océane Schmitt & Jen-Yun Chou

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Madalina Mincu, Social Media Officer

The research forum can help people who want to make contact and learn about new indicators and work that has been done in other species.

Linda Keeling

It will be good to talk at European level about how we can educate the younger generation about animal welfare.

Jean-Loup Rault

LIFT is about laying the foundations for lifting animals’ lives, through knowledge about positive animal welfare indicators.

Margit Bak Jensen

As researchers, we have to make an effort to increase the understanding of what positive animal welfare means.

Pol Llonch

COST can help to align researchers’ conceptualization of positive animal welfare.

Laura Webb

Latest Updates

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In June 2025, Irene Camerlink, based in Poland, visited Suzanne Truong in Melbourne, Australia for a STSM. A...
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Heng-Lun Ko and Raúl David Guevara from the Autonomous University of Barcelona were awarded for the 2-week STSM...
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In total 26 participants from 17 countries arrived in Split, Croatia, before the Easter break to celebrate the...
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As a recent initiative of the LIFT Inclusiveness Committee, a mentoring scheme was launched. In total 22 mentees,...