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The European-funded project ClearFarm, coordinated by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has developed and validated the first digital animal welfare monitoring platform that integrates, analyses and displays information collected by various sensors installed on farms. The resulting tool allows consumers and farmers to make informed choices about the purchase of food of animal origin and the care of animals at different stages of their lives.

Event in memory of Dr. Calsamiglia at the FEDNA-ANEMBE Conference on ruminant nutrition.

Offer of places in the Department of Animal Science and Food

Sergio Calsamiglia Blancafort, professor in the Department of Animal Science and Food, has left us. The UAB sends its deepest condolences to the family and friends and to all the people who knew and appreciated him, and shares the feeling for his loss.

The UAB and the UB launch a dissemination platform to fight misinformation in the field of nutrition, safety, technology and food sustainability.

The University gives visibility to spin-off companies (spin-offs and EBTs) and mobile and digital sector technologies at a stand at the 4 Years From Now fair, which will take place at Fira Gran Via from February 27 to March 2 2023.

In 2016 EAAP established the Young Scientists Award to grant European early career researchers who demonstrated outstanding research performance.

After two years of collecting data in peri-urban conditions, the UABee project confirms that the Asian wasp poses a major threat to the survival of bees, but shows that it is possible to prevent the decline with proper hive management.

Researchers from the UAB and IRTA participated in a study in which they found the same bacterial plasmid with resistance to colistin in a farmer and in his cattle. The samples were taken at the end of 2017, a year after it was recommended worldwide to reduce its use on farms.