Adapting the feed, the animal and the feeding techniques to improve the efficiency and sustainability of monogastric livestock production systems
Adapting the feed, the animal and the feeding techniques to improve the efficiency and sustainability of monogastric livestock production systems

Organisation

The consortium

Feed-a-Gene gathers 23 partners from 8 European countries and China: 8 research institutes and higher education organisations, 9 industry partners (2 involved in livestock production, 2 in innovative technologies for animal breeding, 3 in feed production and transformation, and 2 in equipment for precision feeding), 6 in extension and management.

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Governance

INRA DLO UNew UdL IRTA KU AU CAU Topigs Cobbs Hamlet Protein Bühler Dupont Exafan Claitec INCO Gran Suino ACTA IFIP ITAVI CETIOM AFZ IT

Governance structure

  • Coordinator : Jaap van Milgen (INRA)
  • Governing Council (GC): the GC is the decision-making body of the project, responsible for its strategic and political orientation
  • Executive Committee (ExCom): the ExCom is the decision-implementing body of the project, in charge of the operational management of all activities of the project. 
  • Intellectual Property Use and Dissemination Committee (IPUDC): the role of the IPUDC is to advice on the management of knowledge, intellectual property and other innovation-related activities arising from the project, and to monitor the implementation of the principles governing intellectual property rights
  • Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB): the SAB provides an external point of view on the way to conduct the project to bring a maximum outcome to society and to advise the consortium where and how the most promising results should be exploited
  • Stakeholder Platform (SP): the SP provides preferential contacts for the dissemination of project outcomes to society and for consultation by the project partners on specific issues where the input from stakeholders is needed.