Component 1.4 South-Eastern Europe
The objective of this component is to improve emergency management capacity for FMD in the Balkan region of both EuFMD Member and non-Member Nations. The aim is to ensure a coordination framework is in place for the region to ensure the continuous development and improvement of contingency plans and to ensure laboratory capacity in the event of an animal health crisis.
Recently, the EuFMD has focused emergency preparedness efforts on testing of preparedness, using simulation exercises and by developing a self-assessment tool. Gaps in preparedness and good practices are identified by auditors in DG SANTE Directorate F Health and Food Audits and Analysis during the course of audits on contingency planning and disease outbreaks.
This component also aims to establish a system of regional diagnostic support in the event of an FMD crisis and to assess the integration of FMD national reference laboratories into national contingency plans.
Fund for Applied Research (FAR) EuFMD South Eastern Europe (SEE)
Second call March 2022
The European Commission for the control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD) is launching the 2nd call for research proposals of the EuFMD South Eastern Europe (SEE) Fund for Applied Research (FAR).
Funding of circa EUR 50 000 is available to support up to five proposals to establish national networks to connect veterinary services, laboratories, research institutions, private sector and farmers. The project should be either desk-based and/or field-based with the geographical focus in the EuFMD South Eastern Europe (SEE) member nations.
The research themes and priority evidence need areas (i.e. subthemes) for this call have been identified by the EuFMD SEE member nations Management Meeting. They relate to FAST diseases – Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD), Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) Sheep and Goat Pox (SPGP) Bovine Ephemeral Fever (BEF) and Rift Valley Fever (RVF).