Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Centre of Excellence in Animal Welfare Science

The Centre of Excellence in Animal Welfare Science is a Swedish network for researchers in natural and social sciences aiming to improve animal welfare. Once a Formas strong research environment project between SLU and Linköping University, the centre today continues to establish scientific excellence in this multidisciplinary research area. The network is coordinated by SLU.

NEWS: The 4th Annual Animal Welfare Science Symposium May 16-17 2019: Programme now available!

Our research is based on three overlapping themes:

Understanding of negative animal welfare
Understanding of positive animal welfare
Animal welfare policy

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Activities

New PhD course: Animal Welfare and the UN Sustainable Development Goals In this course we assess relationships between animal welfare and the UN sustainable development goals and integrate animal welfare issues with their relevant sustainable development goals.
New: PhD course in Animal ethics This course gives an overview of differences between ethics and legislation, elements in ethical argumentation, relation between animal science and animal ethics, description of normative ethical theories used in animal ethics, and an introduction to relevant issues e.g. historical and societal overview of human-animal interaction, reasons for human use of animals, ethical aspects of this use in terms of un/necessary suffering, integrity, responsibilities, limits, interests, behaviour and needs (for both humans and animals).
Winning scores for animal welfare grant applications We are happy to conclude that a number of new projects with connections to the Centre of Excellence in Animal Welfare Science have been granted funding from the Swedish Research Council Formas, and are due to start in 2019.
GCUAW10 Animal Welfare and the Sustainable Development Goals The Global Challenges University Alliance (GCUA) Workshop: Animal Welfare and the Sustainable Development Goals” was held 18-20 June at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala, Sweden.

Published: 10 May 2019 - Page editor: Yezica.Norling@slu.se

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