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European Partnership for Animal Health and Welfare (EUPAHW) – Call: Shaping the Future of Animal Health and Welfare

Grant
Austrian Science Fund (FWF), with Fonds Zukunft Österreich, co-financed by the European Union Worldwide 2026

Information

The EUPAHW call "Shaping the Future of Animal Health and Welfare" is a multilateral research funding opportunity to advance healthy and sustainable animal production systems and animal welfare across Europe, applying a One Health–One Welfare perspective. Projects address topics such as animal welfare across the production chain, prevention and control (therapies, vaccines, reduction of antibiotic use) and related socio-economic questions. Consortia must include 3–8 partners from at least three participating partner countries and projects may run up to 36 months.

Benefits

Project funding for collaborative research (maximum €450,000 for FWF project leaders) and funding support through participating national/regional funders; project runtime up to 36 months.

Eligibility

Researchers at universities, non-university research institutions and non-profit organisations active in research on animal health and animal welfare; consortia must consist of at least three and at most eight partners from at least three different participating partner countries; researchers are funded by their respective national/regional funding organisations.

Application

Two-stage submission: concept proposals submitted to the Call Secretariat (electronic submission) and administrative/financial/scientific information submitted to FWF (elane). Both submissions are mandatory; concept phase followed by full-proposal phase.

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