First Conference on Animal Biosecurity Program

Program

Day 1

5th June 2025

 

Time allocated (CET)
Topic
Speaker

8:15 – 8:40 am

Registration

 

8:40 – 9:00 am

Welcome

 

Key – notes 

9:00 – 9:45 am

Health Psychology & Biosecurity

Alison Burrell (Animal Health Ireland)

9:45 – 10:30 am

Economics of biosecurity

Maurizio Aragrande & Massimo Canali (Bologna University)

10:30 – 11:00 am

Coffee – Break with poster presentations

Poster presenters

Oral presentations: Main achievements during the BETTER project

11:00 – 11:20 am

Mapping biosecurity measures applied on farms and transport across Europe

Jasna Prodanov (Novi Sad) & Telmo Nunes (ULisboa)

11:20 – 11:40 am

Scaling-up the knowledge and experience of stakeholders and of the general public

Maria da Costa (SRUC) & Giovanna Ciaravino (UAB)

11:40 – 12:00 am

Methods for evaluation of biosecurity and benefits of its implementation

Lena-Mari Tamminen (SLU) & Miroslav Kjosevski (UKIM)

12:00 – 12:20 pm

Training and dissemination

Claude Saegerman (ULiège) & Tarmo Niine (EMU) & Niemi Jarkko (LUKE)

12:20 – 1:00 pm

Flash talks

Selected poster presenters

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Lunch

 

Key – notes

2:00 – 2:45 pm

Technology & Biosecurity

Carlos Piñeiro (Animal Data Analytics)

2:45 – 3:30 pm

Regional biosecurity

Tim Nelson (Farm Health Guardian) & Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt (U. Montreal, Canada)

3:30 – 4:00 pm 

Coffee – Break with poster presentations

Poster presenters

 

Oral presentations

 

4:00 – 5:30 pm

6 short presentations (10 min + 5 questions)

Selected work done outside BETTER

8:30 pm

Social dinner (optional)

 

 

Day 2

6th June 2025

 

Time allocated (CET)
Topic
Speaker / Facilitator

Key – notes 

9:00 – 9:45 am

Future needs on biosecurity (views from industry)

Scott Killeen (CID Lines) & Ilias Chantziaras (UGent)

9:45 – 10:30 am

Needs on biosecurity

Damian Tago Pacheco (FAO)

10:30 – 11:00 am

New WOAH chapter on biosecurity

Jeroen Dewulf (UGent)

11:00 – 11:30 am

Coffee – Break with Poster presentations

Poster presenters

 

Oral presentations

 

11:30 – 1:00 pm

4 short presentations (10 min + 5 questions)

Selected work done outside BETTER

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Lunch

Poster presenters

2:00 – 2:20 pm

Using science to write policy to manage a One Health crisis

Scott Dee (University of Minnesota)

2:20 – 2:50 pm

WABA presentation & discussion

Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt (U. Montreal)

3:00 – 3:30 pm

BETTER COST Action project – what we have learnt during our four years of existence

Alberto Allepuz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

 

End of the meeting