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Two years of co-creation of innovations with the European practitioners, consumers and citizens in the PPILOW project!
– by Anne Collin (INRAE) The second annual meeting of the European PPILOW project (Poultry and PIG Low-input and Organic production systems’ Welfare, 2019-2024) was held from the 21st to the 23rd of September, 2021. During this 3-day online meeting, the PPILOW partners from 9 European countries shared with members of the project European Multiactor […]
PPILOW Italian meeting, 15th December 2021!
The Italian preliminary-PPILOW meeting “Innovative strategies to promote the welfare and products quality of extensive chickens: environmental enrichment and role of genetic strain” will be held on 15th December 2021 at OSCARD BUSINESS CENTER BOLOGNA, SALA XL, Spazio Business Center, via Boldrini 18/A, Bologna. The meeting will propose innovative strategies to improve the welfare of […]
PPILOW’s People: Marlène Sciarretta!
Hi! I’m Marlène, I work at EAAP, the European Federation of Animal Science, based in Rome. I am an EU project manager with a background in political sciences (international field) and an MA in European Studies earned in Belgium. After a traineeship at the Council of the European Union, I worked for international governmental bodies and private sector […]
PPILOW’s People: Yegor Kozhemyakin!
Research as part of a PPILOW project is definitely not easy. On the one hand it is constant and painstaking work on part of a huge project and as part of a huge team working on improving the life cycle of animals in agro-industries such as poultry and pigs, on the other hand it is […]
PPILOW’s People: Simona Mattioli!
I’m Simona Mattioli, I was born in 1986 in San Benedetto del Tronto-Italy. I graduated in Biology at the University of Perugia (Italy) in 2010. After the PhD period carried out at Insubria University (Varese, Italy; 2014) on Avian Biodiversity, I became full researcher at the Department of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences of the […]
PIGLOW – Pig Welfare Application!
One of the aims of the PPILOW project is to develop tools for organic and free-range farmers to monitor the welfare of their own animals. For this purpose, the PIGLOW app was developed for pig farmers. With this app, pig farmers can conduct welfare assessments of their animals and view their results, which include automated […]
PPILOW’s People: Pietro Luciano Venezia!
I graduated in Veterinary Medicine in Parma in 1990 and since 1991 I have been working in permaculture (PDC Permaculture Design Course) and in Non-Conventional Medicine (MNC). From 1991 to 1997 I lived in Guatemala where I met and practiced permaculture together with the French agronomist Benoit Maria, I then continued my study and work […]
Ebene – Poultry Welfare Application!
One of the aims of the PPILOW project is to develop tools for organic and free-range farmers to monitor the welfare of their own animals. For this purpose, the EBENE app was refined for poultry farmers. With this app, poultry farmers can conduct welfare assessments of their animals and view their results, which include automated […]
PPILOW’s People: Henry van den Brand!
My part of the PPILOW project still has to start. I am thrilled to start in Spring 2022 with incubation experiments, in which we will incubate eggs of very slow growing broiler chickens in different ways. We will increase or decrease the incubation temperature during 12 hours per day in the most sensitive period of […]
Already two years of co-creation of innovations with the European practitioners, consumers and citizens in the PPILOW project!
The second annual meeting of the European PPILOW project (Poultry and PIG Low-input and Organic production systems’ Welfare, 2019-2024) was held from the 21st to the 23rd of September, 2021. During this 3-days online meeting, 22 PPILOW partners from 9 European countries shared PPILOW advances with the members of its European Multiactor Board and National […]