Nordic network for Communicating Animal Welfare

(NordCAW) Seminar 2022

30th November / 1st December 2022

Main Hall of the Estonian University of Life Sciences
(address: Kreutzwaldi 1A, Tartu, Estonia)

 

ABSTRACT BOOK (PDF)

 

30th November

09.30 - 10.00

Registration & coffee

Moderator: Tom Bengtsen

10.00 – 10.15

Opening remarks and welcome
David Arney, Estonian University of Life Sciences

10.15 – 11.00

Scoring animal welfare and other components of sustainability
Prof. Donald Broom, University of Cambridge

11.00 – 11.30

Animal Welfare and Sustainable Development Goals
Gabriela Olmos Antillón, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science, SLU

11.30 – 12.00

Coffee break

12.00 – 12.30

Happy Animals for Sustainable Production And Consumption
Elina Asbjer, SLU

12.30 – 14.30

Excursion to Tartu Animal Rescue Centre, followed by lunch at the venue

Moderator: Ragnar Leming

14.30 – 15.15

Animal Welfare and Organic farming
Dr Lindsay Whistance, Organic Research Centre

15.15 – 15.45

Attitudes to welfare of Ukrainian farmers
Lidiia Moskalenko, The National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine

15.45 – 16.15

Tea break

16.15 – 16.45

Arousal tends to distort time perception of domestic pigs
Kristiina Kull, BOKU

16.45 – 17.15

Selection of horses for hippotherapy
Vytautas Ribikauskas, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

19.00

Dinner at the Gunpowder Cellar

 

1st December

09.30 - 10.00 Morning Coffee
Moderator: Satu Raussi

10.00 – 10.45

What can studies on free-ranging cattle tell us?
Prof. Stephen Hall, University of Lincoln

10.45 – 11.05

Sheep at pasture and heat stress
Giovanni Marcone, Estonian University of Life Sciences

11.05 – 11.30

Coffee break

11.30 – 11.50

Welfare of sheep transported in cold and hot conditions
Dr Francesca Carnovale, Estonian University of Life Sciences

11.50 – 12.10

Systemic inflammation in newborn ruminants – adaptation to extrauterine life?
Marina Loch, Estonian University of Life Sciences

12.10 – 12.45

Animal Welfare and Sustainability
Clive Phillips, Curtin University, Australia and Visiting Professor of Estonian University of Life Sciences

12.45 – 13.00

Closing comments, some outcomes of the meeting
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 – 16.00

NordCAW Meeting