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. 

Stakeholder Consultation

LIFT has now started the stakeholder consultation phase. Give your opinion about positive animal welfare to make a change in practice! Go to ‘Surveys’ and tell us your thoughts. The survey is available in multiple languages.

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

Catch the latest updates on PAW with the #LIFTCostAction on social media platforms.

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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The final-year COST Action LIFT workshop will be held on the 26th of June 2026 in London (UK)....
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The Interdisciplinary seminar series are online webinars held on the Applying Ethology webinar platform through a joint collaboration...
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The WG3 meeting in Barcelona was intensive yet highly productive. The two-day in-person event, which happened on the...
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There will be a last WG3 physical meeting planned on January 27th and 28th 2026 in Barcelona, Spain,...