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COST Action - Positive animal welfare (LIFT)
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COST Action CA21124 aims to provide background on the inclusion of positive welfare in farm animal welfare assessment.
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"📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Positive welfare: What does it add to the debate over pig welfare?" by Alistair B. Lawrence, Ruth C. Newberry and Marek Špinka.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/B978...
November 13, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Can positive welfare counterbalance negative and can net welfare be assessed?" by Donald M. Broom.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...
October 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Join us for our next Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare, by
@affect-evo.bsky.social, @liftcostaction.bsky.social & COST IMPROVE!

“Animal happiness" with Ass. Prof. Laura Webb.

📅 Date & Time: 15 October 2025 | 16:00 CEST
🔗 Registration link: forms.gle/jxHjULq5UrQ9...
October 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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We’d love your input on translating “Positive animal welfare” into local languages — esp. Spanish, Portuguese & Mandarin 🌍

Share your translation here: ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/run...
September 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Another month, another successful meeting! 🐾

On Sept 3–4 in Teramo, WG1 held a workshop on “Fostering good lives for animals: Does Positive Animal Welfare move animal welfare further?”.

Huge thanks to @mchincarini.bsky.social & the University of Teramo for hosting us!

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September 10, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Positive Welfare in Science and Society: Differences, Similarities and Synergies" by Belinda Vigors, Peter Sandøe, and Alistair Lawrence.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...
September 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The room is buzzing! 🔊 18 breakout groups (!) are diving into open questions on positive animal welfare - great energy and engagement all around.

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August 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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After lunch, we’re now diving into indicators of positive animal welfare and how to translate lab findings into real-world, on-farm settings - bridging science and practice!

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August 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Starting the workshop with four amazing overview talks on the conceptual framework of positive animal welfare (PAW) and many key aspects related to PAW - setting the stage for great discussions ahead! 🐾

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August 4, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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🚀 Kicking off the LIFT Satellite Workshop in Utrecht - just ahead of #ISAE2025! Our chair, Margit Bak Jensen, opens the day with a warm welcome and overview of the COST Action.

Looking forward to a day of productive discussions and networking!
August 4, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Does Smart Farming Improve or Damage Animal Welfare? Technology and What Animals Want" by Marian Stamp Dawkins.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fani...
July 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Human-animal interactions and machine-animal interactions in animals under human care: A summary of stakeholder and researcher perceptions and future directions" by Ellen Williams and colleagues.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1017/awf....
June 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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Join us for the 1st Synergy Webinar on Animal Welfare, by
@affect-evo.bsky.social, @liftcostaction.bsky.social & COST IMPROVE!

“Adult neurogenesis as a valence marker” w/ Dr. Tom Smulders

📅 28 May 2025 | 🕓 16:00 CET
💻 Zoom (link via registration)

🔗 Registration link: forms.gle/TMK7ao8zPuZ3...
May 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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🚨 New publication alert! 📄

Excited to share the results of a LIFT COST Action Short Term Scientific Mission (STSM) — a fantastic collaboration between Slovenia and Italy!

www.frontiersin.org/journals/vet...
May 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "The Power of a Positive Human–Animal Relationship for Animal Welfare" by Jean-Loup Rault and colleagues.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fvet...
May 13, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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🚨 Webinar Alert!

Join us for an online webinar organised by the COST Action IMPROVE on "Ethics, Animal Research & One Health" with Prof. Dr. Yeşim Işıl Ulman.

📅 15 May 2025 | 🕜 13:30 CET | 💻 Zoom

🔗 Register: forms.gle/W37txHD71ZrZ...
May 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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🚀 Less than a month since their last event, WG3 held a successful Training School on stakeholder engagement in PAW research—this time in Split, Croatia, hosted by LIFT member Boris Antunović (University of Osijek) on April 14–15.

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May 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Towards an integrated concept of animal welfare" by Inonge Reimert and colleagues.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...
April 16, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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WG3 had a successful meeting in Antalya (Feb 27-28), hosted by Özkan Elmaz, with twelve LIFT members joining in person to advance WG activities.

Topics included the selection of PAW indicators to be consulted, identification of stakeholders, and survey construction.

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March 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Assessing animal welfare: a triangulation of preference, judgement bias and other candidate welfare indicators" by Elizabeth Paul and colleagues.

📖 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
February 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "Validating Indicators of Subjective Animal Welfare" by Heather Browning (@zoophilosophy.bsky.social).

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1017/psa....
January 14, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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📰✨ Our Feature Paper of the Month! ✨📰

This month's highlight: "How STRANGE are your study animals?" by Michael M. Webster & Christian Rutz.

📖 Read more: doi.org/10.1038/d415...
December 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM