STSMs are travel grants and VM Grants are grants to conduct research at the home institution with the support of a foreign expert. Both aim to support individual…
Deliverable 3.1. Output-based methodological approaches for substantiating freedom from infection
The members of working group 3, led by Aurélien Madouasse and Eleftherios Meletis, delivered a report comparing different methods for output-based surveillance. The first objective was to outline…
SOUND control at ICOALS, 1–3 November 2021
Professor Xhelil Koleci participated in the 3rd International Conference on Agriculture and Life Sciences held at the Agricultural University of Tirana (AUT), Albania, from 1 to 3 November 2021.…
STSM Norwegian Veterinary Institute (August 2021)
After some complications due to the ongoing pandemy, a first postponement of the dates planned for the STSM and uncertainty about the possibility be able at all to…
STSM University of Thessaly (June 2021)
Finalizing a data collection tool for input data to model the freedom of controlled cattle diseases The aims of WG2|STSM5 were to (i) finalize the data collection tool…
Webinar “Animal health economics” by Wilma Steeneveld
On September 14, we organized a webinar on animal health economics presented by Dr. Wilma Steeneveld from Utrecht University in the Netherlands. She focused on why performing economic…
SOUND control Newsletter – August 2021
The current summer edition of our newsletter is online. In this newsletter you will find a brief update, information about our past and planned activities, the introduction of…
Annual SOUND control meeting
On June 22-23, 2021, the SOUND control consortium hosted an Annual online meeting to discuss the status and progress of the project. More than 40 members from 32…
Webinar “The STOC free model” by Aurélien Madouasse
The webinar “The STOC free model: A Bayesian Hidden Markov Model for output-based surveillance” was presented by Aurélien Madouasse. Aurélien graduated in veterinary medicine in Nantes (France) in…
Call for Virtual Mobility grant candidates
The COST Action CA17110 ‘Standardizing output-based surveillance to control non-regulated diseases of cattle in the EU’ (SOUND control) encourages and supports networking of researchers between countries and institutes.…