Initiative Tierwohl announces the "Innovation Award Tierwohl"
The Tierwohl Initiative (ITW) is awarding the “Animal Welfare Innovation Prize” for the third time. From now on, pig, chicken and turkey farmers as well as scientists can apply in two categories. The pet owners can apply for prize money with projects that have already been implemented. At the same time, scientists and experts have the opportunity to win funding for planned projects.
The scientific projects should be able to be assigned to the subject areas of new building and conversion options for outdoor air-conditioned stalls, the design of lying areas in pig farming and stress reduction in stall management or animal welfare in general. The ITW recognizes new approaches that promote animal welfare, its measurability and animal health in livestock husbandry of pigs, chickens and turkeys.
The deadline for submitting application documents for prize money or project funding is September 30, 2021. The jury for the Animal Welfare Innovation Prize consists of the members of the ITW Advisory Committee. It decides which projects will be awarded project funding or which farmers will be rewarded with prize money. The winners of the prize money each receive 10.000 euros, the second-placed 7.000 euros and the third-placed 5.000 euros. The amount of project funding, however, is not fixed. It will depend on the specific evaluation of the projects and the expected costs.
Further information can be found here: www.innovationspreis-tierwohl.de
About the Initiative animal welfare
With the Tierwohl (ITW) initiative launched in 2015, the partners from agriculture, the meat industry, food retail and gastronomy commit themselves to their joint responsibility for animal husbandry, animal health and animal welfare in livestock husbandry. The animal welfare initiative supports farmers in implementing measures for the welfare of their livestock that go beyond the legal standards. The implementation of these measures is monitored across the board by the Animal Welfare Initiative. The Animal Welfare Initiative's product seal only identifies products that come from animals from participating companies in the Animal Welfare Initiative. The animal welfare initiative is gradually establishing more animal welfare on a broad basis and is continuously being further developed in the process.
