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Veterinary nursing

Veterinary nursing is one of SLU's main educational subjects. It includes nursing and nursing planning at different states of disease and also during rehabilitation. An ethical view is important for the nursing of animals, and the animals well-fare is in focus. Also the interaction with the animal owners is important.


There are 63 pages tagged with Veterinary nursing:

NCP Slaughter and killing

SCAW is Sweden's national contact point for slaughter and other types of killing.

EFSA reports and other material concerning fish slaugther

Here you find links to reports concerning fish slaughter Fish welfare in European Aquaculture Welfare of farmed fish Knowledge gaps and research needs for the welfare of farmed fish Food Safety

FF workshop animals and forest

The research areas of animal behaviour and forest science are often separated. Therefore, a workshop was held recently, to try and bridge the gap. The goal of the workshop was to foster mutual

NordCAW

NordCAW (Nordic Network for Communicating Animal Welfare) is a Nordic co-operation to communicate within animal welfare. SCAW is one of the initiators of the project.

NordCAW seminar 2025

The 2025 NordCAW seminar will be held in Denmark during the fall and the topic will be pig welfare. More information about the seminar will be published here further on.

Previous courses

Here you will find information on previous courses.

EFSA reports

EFSAs' reports about animal welfare at the time of slauther and killing Here you will find links to EFSAs' reports related to animal welfare at slaughter and killing: Slaughter of animals: poultry

SCAW:s 10 year anniversary

The Swedish Centre for Animal Welfare, SCAW, arranged a seminar the 8th of May 2019 to celebrate our 10 year anniversary. You can see the presentations by clicking on the links below. You will learn

More material on slaughter and killing

EU material In some cases, there are stricter national regulations than in the EU. If Swedish regulations are stricter, these are the ones that apply in Sweden. The EU material below should therefore

Previous projects

SCAW has previously participated in several projects and collaborations. You can find a short summary of them here.

Reference groups

SCAW is represented in several working and reference groups. SCAW has representatives in: The Ministry of Trade and Industry's national animal welfare network The Ministry of Trade and Industry's

SCAW:s steering group

The steering group consists of 5 regular members from SLU who are qualified researchers. The steering group also has 5 co-opted members representing competent authorities, the Ministry of Enterprise

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