‘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.
LIFT has now started the stakeholder consultation phase. Give your opinion about positive animal welfare to make a change in practice before August 2026! Go to ‘Surveys’ and tell us your thoughts. Choose the stakeholder category and animal species that are most relevant to you.
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.
To successfully translate the knowledge of positive animal welfare to the real world, we need to listen and engage with stakeholders.
WG3.5 is conducting an extensive review of feasible technologies that can be used on farms to assess and monitor positive welfare.
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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.
It will be good to talk at European level about how we can educate the younger generation about animal welfare.
LIFT is about laying the foundations for lifting animals’ lives, through knowledge about positive animal welfare indicators.
As researchers, we have to make an effort to increase the understanding of what positive animal welfare means.
COST can help to align researchers’ conceptualization of positive animal welfare.
