Program

Day 1

5th June 2025

Time allocated (CET)

Topic

Speaker

8:15 – 8:40 am

Registration

8:40 – 9:00 am

Welcome

Manel López Bejar (Dean of the Veterinary School) & Alberto Allepuz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Key notes 

9:00 – 9:45 am

Sociology/Behaviour & Biosecurity

Alison Burrell (Animal Health Ireland)

9:45 – 10:30 am

Economics of biosecurity

Maurizio Aragrande & Massimo Canali (Bologna University, Italy)

10:30 – 11:00 am

Coffee – Break with poster presentations

Poster presenters

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, Serbia) & Telmo Nunes (University of Lisboa, Portugal)

11:20 – 11:40 am

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

Maria da Costa (Scotland’s Rural College, Scotland) & Giovanna Ciaravino (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

11:40 – 12:00 am

Methods for evaluation of biosecurity and benefits of its implementation

Lena-Mari Tamminen (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden) & Miroslav Kjosevski (University in Skopje, North Macedonia)

12:00 – 12:20 pm

Training and dissemination

Claude Saegerman (University of Liege, Belgium) & Tarmo Niine (Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia) & Niemi Jarkko (Natural Resources Institute, Finland)

Flash talks

12:20 – 12:25 pm

Biosecurity and bureaucracy: the administrative burden of paperwork and its estrangement from stakeholder perceptions of better biosecurity

Rebecca Hibbard (Université de Toulouse, France)

12:25 – 12:30 pm

Bridging epidemiology and sociology to improve cattle biosecurity

Teresa Imperial-Esteban (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

12:30 – 12:35 pm

New real time innovative biosecurity tool in your hands

Claude Saegerman (University of Liege, Belgium)

12:35 – 12:40 pm

Impact of biosecurity on production performance and antibiotic usage in broiler farms in a low and middle income country

Ronald Vougat Ngom (University of Ngaoundere, Cameroon)

12:40 – 12:45 pm

12:45 – 12:50 pm

Assessment of biosecurity measures implemented at conventional broiler farms in Pakistan

Qamer Mahmood (University of Ghent, Belgium)

12:50 – 12:55 pm

Towards collective biosecurity: a participatory approach in French communities of poultry farmers

Saccavini Oksana (Université de Toulouse, France)

12:55 – 1:00 pm

Boot hygiene practices and their effectiveness in pig- and poultry farms

Julia Gabrielle Jerab (University of Ghent, Belgium)

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 (University of Montreal, Canada)

3:30 – 4:00 pm 

Coffee – Break with poster presentations

Poster presenters

Oral presentations

4:00 – 4:15 pm

Bitesize Biosecurity: developing livestock farmer-friendly biosecurity materials and tools, including the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Kate Lamont (Scotland’s Rural College, Scotland)

4:15 – 4:30 pm

Latent Class Analysis of Biosecurity Practices in Spanish Pig Farms: Identifying Patterns for Targeted Improvement

Hernan Botero (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

4:30 – 4:45 pm

Three-Scale Selection Model: A Novel Approach for Categorizing Farm Biosecurity Levels

Miroslav Kjosevski (University in Skopje, North Macedonia)

4:45 – 5:00 pm

Estimate the most cost-effective option for improving biosecurity on dairy cattle farms to support informed decision making

Fernando Duarte (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

5:00 – 5:15 pm

Understanding Salmonella Dublin and Salmonella spp. detection in a dairy calf movement system to inform biosecurity and pathogen surveillance strategies

Andreia Arruda (Ohio State University, US)

5:15 – 5:30 pm

FarmR!sk, a new tool for risk-based biosecurity advice

Natalia Ciria Artiga (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

8:30 pm

Social dinner (optional)

Day 2

6th June 2025

Time allocated (CET)

Topic

Speaker

Key notes 

9:00 – 9:45 am

Future needs on biosecurity (views from industry)

Scott Killeen (CID Lines) & Ilias Chantziaras (University of Ghent, Belgium)

9:45 – 10:30 am

Needs on biosecurity

Damian Tago Pacheco (FAO)

10:30 – 11:00 am

New WOAH chapter on biosecurity

Jeroen Dewulf (University of Ghent, Belgium)

11:00 – 11:30 am

Coffee – Break with Poster presentations

Poster presenters

Oral presentations

11:30 – 11:45 pm

Challenges for the implementation of biosecurity practices in extensive and alternative production systems with outdoor access in Spain

Gerard Martin-Valls (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

11:45 – 12:00 pm

Testing the effectiveness of cleaning and disinfection procedure in livestock transport trucks: a pilot study

Laura Courtens (University of Ghent, Belgium)

12:00 – 12:15 pm

Enhancing biosecurity to mitigate antimicrobial resistance: Insights from ICARS-supported projects in low and middle-income countries

Claudia Cobo-Angel (International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions, Denmark)

12:15 – 12:30 pm

Science-based biosecurity prevents porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus infection and improves productivity in breeding herds.

Scott Dee (University of Minnesota, US)

12:30 – 12:45 pm

How can we do biosecurity better? Research gaps and opportunities

Julia Smith (University of Vermont, US)

12:45 – 1:00 pm

A 360° Virtual Poultry farm tour to train on biosecurity

Mattias Delpont (Université de Toulouse, France)

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, US)

2:20 – 3:00 pm

WABA presentation & discussion

Jean-Pierre Vaillancourt (University of Montreal, Canada)

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