The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (EuFMD)

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
European Commision

Eleventh call for technical projects and field studies

This call promoted small technical projects and field studies that:   

  • have transformative potential; 
  • generate tangible outputs in a form easily recognized for their relevance to EuFMD Member Nations; 
  • have transboundary application;
  • are relevant to significant issues affecting outcomes of the Move FAST – Get Prepared work programme.  

Themes

The application addressed the proposed themes below:  

  1. enhance capacity for surveillance in domestic livestock and wildlife populations, to optimize early warning systems for FAST diseases;
  2. enhance capacity for emergency vaccination against FAST diseases in free countries; socioeconomic evaluation of different vaccination approaches in non-free countries;
  3. enhance laboratory capacity and diagnosis for FAST diseases in EuFMD Member Nations and neighbourhood. 

Eligibility and budget

Under the FAO rules that govern Letters of Agreement (LoA), only non-commercial services are foreseen. Therefore, only non-profit, intergovernmental, and governmental organizations were eligible.  

The budget allocated for each study ranges between 20.000 and 30.000 euro. 

Awarded studies 

Research team

Study

Lead institute

Enhance capacity for surveillance in domestic livestock and wildlife populations, to optimize early warning systems for FAST diseases

Non-invasive surveillance of FAST diseases at the wildlife/livestock interface through pathogen detection at water points

Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement - UMR Astre (France)

Improving the control and surveillance of FMD and LSD in Bhutan: looking beyond the booster vaccine and evaluating non-invasive methods for serological sampling to improve outbreak investigation

National Centre for Animal Health (Bhutan) 

Enhance capacity for emergency vaccination against FAST diseases in free countries;socioeconomic evaluation of different vaccination approaches in non-free countries

Assessing endemic risk-based vaccination strategies in the context of limited vaccine supply

University of Warwick (UK)

Field Evaluation of an interferon-gamma release assay for detection of a cell-mediated immune response to vaccination against LSD

SCIENSANO (Belgium)

Enhance laboratory capacity and diagnosis for FAST diseases in EuFMD Member Nations and neighbourhood

Monitoring of diagnostic testing during an FMD outbreak in EuFMDiS

University of Copenhagen (Denmark) 

Refining Avidity ELISA for Foot-and-Mouth Disease Post-Vaccination Monitoring in Buffaloes

CONICET (Argentina)