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

Conference participants networking
Conference: Animal Behaviour Live 2026Location: OnlineDate: 12 November 2026Abstract Submission Deadline: 6 September 2026Website: https://ablaoc.sciencesconf.org/ Conference: 1st EUP...
Cows grazing on a pasture
In January 2024, Working Group 1 accomplished one of the most challenging and important tasks of LIFT, which...
SubWG 1.8 members in the Aula Magna of Palazzo del Bo, University of Padua
Thanks to the generous hospitality of our host, Marta Brscic, a subset of subWG 1.8 members gathered at...
LIFT members in the courtyard of the University of Milan
On the 5th and 6th of October, a group of 10 motivated LIFT members convened at the University...