Dissemination Event (WP8)

7 November 2015

The second Dissemination Event under LinkTADs took place together with the Chinese Veterinary Congress (CVC) on 8-9 November 2015 in Fuzhou, China. It was co-organized by Sociedade Portuguesa de Inovacao (SPI), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Chinese Veterinary Medical Association. Dissemination meetings give the opportunity to researchers and other stakeholders working on animal health to meet LinkTADs partners, learn about the project’s activities and main achievements to date, as well as how they can benefit from LinkTADs networking, resources and collaboration opportunities.

The event was organized together with the Laboratory Testing Session at the 6th CVC, Fuzhou Strait International Conference and Exhibition Center in Fuzhou, China. This year, CVC was combined with the 13th China international Agricultural Products Trade Fair. The congress had 10 sessions including more than 100 topics. Over 100 experts in the veterinary field were invited to give speeches/training to a professional audience of over 4,000. The meeting's emphasis was on recent research advances and multidisciplinary approaches for animal disease prevention and control. Being very much in line with LinkTADs' areas of interest, the meetings brought together a very relevant audience for the purpose of dissemination.

The LinkTADs session started with a presentation by Xin Dong, the project partner from the SPI, who introduced an overview of the project, its rationale, objectives, structure (i.e. work packages), major achievements to date, and how to use LinkTADs Online Cooperation Opportunities/Funding Database. This was followed by a presentation by Zhiyong Ma from Shanghai Veterinary Research Institute (SHVRI) on Japanese B Encephalitis Virus Detection Technology. Xue Han from the China Animal Disease Control Center (CADC) presented on research methods of veterinary epidemiology and basic indicators of disease measurement.

The agenda of the meeting can be found attached below.