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The aim of the project is to build on and accelerate the work of the SCAR CWG in developing a durable focused network of national research funders in Member and Associated States of the EU for the purpose of sharing information, coordinating activities and working towards a common research agenda and mutual research funding activities in the field of animal health. The scope will include emerging and major infectious diseases of production animals, including fish and bees and including those conditions which pose a threat to human health but excluding food safety issues relating to the handling of livestock products and diseases of wildlife except where they act as reservoirs of infection for humans or production animals.

The EMIDA ERA-NET project is funded by the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme, Project No. 219235
Project Launch Function at Edinburgh Castle
The EMIDA ERA-NET began in April of this year and to mark its launch the Scottish Government’s Minister for Environment, Mike Russell MSP, hosted an impressive dinner function at Edinburgh Castle which was the ideal venue to set the stage and stress the importance of cooperation and involvement in EMIDA. It was also a great opportunity for the partners to get to know each other better and meet members of the Scottish research community. Tim Hall of the European Commission gave an encouraging speech and guests were later treated to a private viewing of the Crown Jewels of Scotland.
 
Rome Meeting 2008
The second meeting of EMIDA was held in Rome on 30 September 2008 and hosted by the Italian Department for Veterinary Public Health, Nutrition and Food Safety. The group discussed the EMIDA communications strategy, ways to extract and analyse information in the project and research output databases, plans for common research calls and how to build a common research agenda.
EMIDA Kick-Off Meeting
The first meeting of EMIDA was held at The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, Scotland on 7 May 2008. Thirty seven delegates were there to discuss the Consortium Agreement, methodologies for mapping research activities and funding mechanisms and to agree plans for the establishment of a Foresight and Programming Unit.

 
 

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