Provisional Outcome of Second EMIDA Call - 2011

All full proposals were reviewed by independent expert evaluators and subsequently discussed and ranked at web-meetings of these evaluators. Fourteen projects have been identified for funding based on the rankings and available funding. Many thanks to all applicants and congratulations to those who were successful.

Please note that this list is still dependent on successful completion of contract negotiations between applicant organisations and the EMIDA Funders' Group and is not yet final.

Activity Line A - Ecology and animal health – diseases transmitted by arthropods

Project title: RiftVectors - Vector competence of European mosquitoes to Rift Valley fever virus

Coordinator: University of Glasgow (UK)

Partners:

-Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana (IZSLT) (IT)

-University of Oxford (UK)

-Institut Pasteur (FR)

 

Project title: VICE - Vector-borne Infections: risk based and cost efficient surveillance systems

Coordinator: DTU – National Veterinary Institute (DK)

Partners:

-Central Veterinary Institute, institute within the legal entity Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (NL)

- Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NO)

- FLI (DE)

- Uni-Oldenburg (DE)

- CODA-CERVA (BE)

- Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Berne (CH)

- ONIRIS-INRA (FR)

-SVA (SE)

-INRA EpiA (FR)

 

Activity Line B - Ecology and animal health – wildlife reservoirs

Project title: EMIRO - The significance of rodent communities for the distribution of Echinococcus multilocularis: ecological and experimental investigations

Coordinator: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)

Partners:

-University of Zurich (CH)

-Lithuanian University of Health Science, Veterinary Academy (LT)

-Finnish Forest Research Institute (FI)

-National Veterinary Institute (SE)

-University of Copenhagen (DK)

 

Project title: APHAEA - Harmonised approaches in monitoring wildlife population health and ecology and abundance

Coordinator: IREC Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha (ES)

Partners:

- Istituto Zooprofilactico Sperimentale del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d''Aosta (IT)

-Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) (DE)

-VetAgro Sup, Campus Veterinaire de Lyon (FR)

- National Veterinary Institute (SVA) (SE)

-Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health (CH)

-Technical University of Denmark/ National Veterinary Institute (DK)

 

Activity Line C – Zoonoses

Project title: CamChain - Campylobacter in chicken production: survival, virulence and control

Coordinator: University of Liverpool (UK)

Partners:

-Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Veterinary Academy (LT)

-University of Cambridge (UK)

-University of Helsinki (FI)

-Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) (AT)

- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise 'G. Caporale' (ICT) (IT)

-Anses (FR)

- DTU National Food Institute (DK)

-University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (AT)

 

Activity Line D - Antimicrobials and anthelmintics: resistance and alternatives for use

Project title: CARES - Coping with anthelmintic resistance in ruminants

Coordinator: University of Copenhagen (DK)

Partners:

- INRA/ToxAlim (FR)

-INRA umr IHAP (FR)

-Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute (DTU-VET) (DK)

-McGill University (CA)

-National Agricultural Research Foundation (NAGREF) (GR)

-Central Veterinary Research Laboratory (IE)

-Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)

-INRA/UR 143 (URZ)/INRA Antilles-Guyane (GP)

 

Project title: MINAPIG - Evaluation of alternative strategies for raising pigs with minimal antimicrobial usage: Opportunities and constraints

Coordinator: SAFOSO (CH)

Partners:

-National Veterinary Institute (SVA) (SE)

- Ghent University (BE)

-Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health GmbH (DE)

- ONIRIS (FR)

- Danish Agriculture and Food Council (DK)

- GIQS c/o University Bonn (DE)

-ETH Zurich (CH)

- University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (DE)

- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SE)

 

Activity Line E - Production diseases – disease susceptibility

Project title: GOAT-TSE-FREE - Towards breeding of goats for genetically determined TSEs resistance

Coordinator: Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen UR (NL)

Partners:

- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle d'Aosta (IT)

-UMR INRA ENVT 1225 (FR)

- Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) (ES)

- Universidad de Zaragoza (UNIZAR) (ES)

-Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratory Agencies (AHVLA) (UK)

-National Agricultural Research Foundation – NAGREF (GR)

-Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (DE)

 

Project title: DIFAGH - Development of immune function and avian gut health

Coordinator: University of Oxford (UK)

Partners:

-Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE)

-University Of Hannover (DE)

- INRA (FR)

-University of Jerusalem (IL)

-Statens Serum Institut (DK)

-Lohmann Animal Health (DE)

 

Activity Line F - Production diseases – epidemiology, diagnostics and vaccination

Project title: MYCOBACTDIAGNOSIS - Development of novel diagnostic strategies for the ante-mortem immunodiagnosis of bovine tuberculosis and Johne's Disease

Coordinator: Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (UK)

Partners:

-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA-1282) (FR)

-Central Veterinary Institute-WUR (NL)

- Enfer Scientific (IE)

-Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) (DE)

-Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute Stormont (UK)

-Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia ed Emilia-Romagna (IT)

-Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IT)

-Moredun Research Institute (UK)

- Univ. College Dublin-Central Veterinary Research Laboratory (IE)

 

Project title: Brucmel - Brucella melitensis: biotyping and differential diagnostic

Coordinator: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise 'G. Caporale' (ICT) (IT)

Partners:

-National Agricultural Research Foundation – NAGREF (GR)

-Kimron Veterinary Institute (IL)

-Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia (IT)

 

Project title: Farmers WTP – Farmers’ willingness to prevent and control disease

Coordinator: Wageningen University (NL)

Partners:

-Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) (UK)

-ONIRIS-INRA (FR)

 

Activity Line G – Diseases in aquaculture

Project title: MOLTRAQ – Molecular tracing of viral pathogens in aquaculture

Coordinator: Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NO)

Partners:

-Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute (DK)

- Agence nationale de sécurité sanitaire (FR)

-Friedrich-Loeffler Institut (DE)

- Institut francais de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (FR)

-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) (FR)

-Norwegian Computing Center (NR) (NO)

 

Activity Line H – Epizootic diseases

Project title: Epi-SEQ – Molecular epidemiology of epizootic diseases using next generation sequencing technology

Coordinator: Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Center (CODA-CERVA) (BE)

Partners:

- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Tiergesundheit (FLI) (DE)

-Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) (SE)

-Institute for Animal Health (IAH) (UK)

- Instituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe) (IT)

-University of Glasgow (UK)

 

 

Outcome of First EMIDA Common Call - 2010

The following twelve projects were successful:

Topic 1 – Vector borne diseases

Project title: OrbiNet – Molecular and reverse genetics studies of orbivirus transmission, host responses, epidemiology and diagnostic systems.

Coordinator: Pirbright Laboratory, Institute for Animal Health (UK)

Partners:

-Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute (DK)

-Qiagen (DE)

-Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (DE)

-University of Glasgow Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (UK)

-Institute of Virology and Immunoprophylaxis (CH)

-Kimron Veterinary Institute (IL)

-Central Veterinary Institute of Wageningen UR (CVI) (NL)

-Agence Francaise de Securite Sanitaire des Aliments (AFSSA) (FR)

-Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (BE)

-Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise 'G. Caporale' (IZS A&M) (IT)

 

Project title: Early detection data - Improving early detection of emerging vector borne diseases by using existing production and diagnostic data.

Coordinator: Animal Health Service Deventer (NL)

Partners:

-Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre (VAR) (BE)

-ONIRIS – INRA (FR)

 

Topic 2 - Zoonoses & antimicrobial resistance, excluding microbial safety of products

Project title: LA-MRSA - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineages in primary productions: multi-host pathogen, spill-over and spill-back between animals and humans?

Coordinator: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Regioni Lazio e Toscana (IT)

Partners:

- Technical University of Denmark, Community Reference Laboratory for antimicrobial resistance (DK)

-CONGEN Biotechnologie GmbH (DE)

-CODA-CERVA VAR (BE)

-Centro de Vigilancia Sanitaria Veterinaria (VISAVET), Universidad Complutenes de Madrid (ES)

-Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) (DE)

- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia ed Emila Romagna (IT)

- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte Liguria e Valle d'Aosta (IT)

 

Project title: TB Alpine Wildlife – Tuberculosis in Alpine wildlife - Monitoring, diagnostics and potential control strategies of tuberculosis in wild animals in the Alpine provinces of Austria, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.

Coordinator: Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AT)

Partners:

-TUM - Wildtierbiologie- Wissenschaftszentrum Weihenstephan, Technical University Munich (DE)

-LAZBW - Wildforschungsstelle Aulendorf, Landwirtschaftliches Zentrum für Rinderhaltung, Grünlandwirtschaft,Milchwirtschaft, Wild und Fischerei Baden- Württemberg (DE)

-EMC - EMC microcollections GmbH (DE)

-StMUG Referat Tierseuchen, Bayern (DE)

- IVET IBK / AGES - IVET Innsbruck (AT)

-DSR / AGES (AT)

-IMU - Sektion für Hygiene und Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Dept. für Hygiene, Mikrobiologie und Sozialmedizin (AT)

-LGL Bayerisches Landesamt für Gesundheit und Lebensmittelsicherheit Oberschleissheim (DE)

-IZSLER Brescia - Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell’ Emilia Romagna (IT)

-FIWI Vienna - Research Institute for Wildlife Ecology, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (AT)

-Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health FIWI (CH)

-IZSVE - Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, IZSVE Bolzano (IT)

-IVPH Vienna - Institute for Veterinary Public Health, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (AT)

-SFVO - Swiss Federal Veterinary Office (CH)

-STUA - Staatliches Tierärztliches Untersuchungsamt Aulendorf, Baden Württemberg (DE)

-MLR - Referat Tiergesundheit, Ministerium für Ernährung und Ländlichen Raum Baden- Württemberg (DE)

 

Topic 3 - Major infectious diseases affecting production

Project title: ParaTBVaccine - Development of a novel subunit vaccine against Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis that does not interfere with bovine TB diagnostics.

Coordinator: National Veterinary Institute (NO)

Partners:

-Agri-food and Biosciences Institute, Veterinary Scienses Division (UK)

-Technical University of Denmark, National Veterinary Institute (DK)

-Statens Serum Institut (DK)

 

Project title: CombatColibacillosis - Combatting colibacillosis - a genomics based approach.

Coordinator: University of Würzburg, Institute for Molecular Infection Biology (DE)

Partners:

-Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire de Toulouse and� Faculté de médecine de Toulouse-Purpan (FR)

-Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics (IT)

-Tel Aviv University, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology (IL)

 

Project title: BRSV-DIVA - Development and comparative evaluation of three new generation BRSV DIVA vaccines and a corresponding DIVA test.

Coordinator: Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences/National Veterinary Institute (SE)

Partners:

-Institute for Animal Health (UK)

-VIM-INRA (FR)

-SVA/SLU (SE)

 

Project title: iPUD - Integrated systems approach for preventing uterine disease in dairy cattle.

Coordinator: Swansea University, Institute of Life Science, School of Medicine (UK)

Partners:

-INRA (FR)

-Glasgow University (UK)

- Pfizer Animal Health Europe (FR)

- University of Veterinary Medicine / Tierärztliche Hochschule Hannover (DE)

-Pfizer GmbH (DE)

 

Project title: MADISPREAD - Marek's Disease Virus Spread: In and Out of Chicken.

Coordinator: INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (FR)

Partners:

- Lohmann Tierzucht GmbH (DE)

- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)

- ENS Lyon - Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle – INRA (FR)

-University of Munich, Department for Basic Veterinary Sciences (DE)

- Institute for Animal Health, Avian Oncogenic Virus Group (UK)

 

Project title: Improvements in the diagnosis and control of bovine mycoplasmosis.

Coordinator: Veterinary Laboratories Agency (UK)

Partners:

- Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (DE)

- Kimron Veterinary Institute (IL)

- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IT)

- Clondiag GmbH (DE)

 

Project title: HealthyGut – Multi-focal strategies to improve gut health and reduce enteritis in poultry and pigs.

Coordinator: University of Nottingham (UK)

Partners:

-Veterinary Research Institute (CZ)

- China Agricultural University (CN)

- Istituto Superiore di Sanita (IT)

-Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute (DE)

- Lohmann Animal Health (DE)

- Microbial Developments Ltd (UK)

- INRA (FR)

 

Topic 4 - Aquaculture

Project title: PathoFish - Control Flavobacteriaceae infections in European fish farms.

Coordinator: INRA (FR)

Partners:

-Phylogene (FR)

- Åbo Akademi University, Laboratory of Aquatic Pathobiology (FI)

- National Veterinary Institute of Norway (NO)

-Centre for Fish and Wildlife Health, Institut of Animal Pathology, Vetsuisse Fakulty (CH)

- Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IT)

-National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark (DK)

-PHARMAQ AS (NO)