aWISH - Animal Welfare Indicators at the SlaughterHouse

The objective of aWISH is to develop and offer a cost-efficient solution to evaluate and improve the welfare of meat-producing livestock at a large scale, across Europe. This approach will be developed and evaluated in close collaboration with all actors involved, from primary producers up to policy makers and citizens. At the heart of the aWISH solution is the automated monitoring at the slaughterhouse of complementary animal-based indicators for monitoring welfare on-farm, during (un)loading, transport and slaughter.

Project leader

dr. Nienke van Staaveren, post doc

Academic supervisors

Prof. dr. ir. T.B. (Bas) Rodenburg, dr. M.F. (Mona) Giersberg

Grant funding agency

EU Horizon Europe

Other partner

Consortium of 24 European partners led by ILVO (Belgium)