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The Environvet Baltic Network
The long term objective with this project is that scientists at CRU and at other institutions generate a common understanding from their view-point for a environmentally sustainable development of the Baltic Sea region, with focus on animal health. This will be made by creating the Environvet Baltic network wit participants from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and USA. In the future will hopefully scientists from Poland, Germany and Russia also participate.
The immediate objective is to arrange a planning workshop in Estonia in August 2002 to plan the future activities for the network, e.g., courses, workshops and seminars. In this process the experience from colleagues from the University of Illinois, who have created the Environvet International, will be crucial.
Funding: 100.000 SEK from the Nordic Council of Ministers
Project coordinators:
Estonia: Toomas Tiirats
Latvia: Iveta Kocina
Lithuania: Mindaugas Malakauskas
Finland: Marja-Liisa Hanninen
Denmark: Vibeke Dantzer
USA: Börje Gustafsson
Sweden: Ulf Magnusson
For more info, contact: ulf.magnusson@kv.slu.se
Improvement of reproductive
efficiency in farm animals
- a mobility and exchange programme between CRU
and Estonian Agricultural University (EAU) funded by the Swedish Institute
(SI).
The programme is funded by grants from SI within
the “Visby programmet” for the academic years of 1998/1999 to 2000/2001.
The money within the programme are meant for mobility and exchange of scientists
between EAU and CRU and thus cover travelling and living expenses for shorter
visits. Liaison persons are Drs. Ulf Magnusson (Ulf.Magnusson@og.slu.se)
at CRU and Toomas Tiirats (ely@eau.ee) and the programme is built around
8 subprojects listed below. Enquires may be answered by the liaison persons.
or the contact person for the subproject at CRU.
Subproject 1: Energy and protein balance in high-producing cows and its effect on metabolic and reproductive hormones and fertility. Contact at CRU: Hans.Wiktorsson@huv.slu.se
Subproject 2: Effect of viral infections on fertility in pigs. Contact at CRU: Ulf.Magnusson@og.slu.se
Subproject 3: Treatment of subclinical and clinical mastitis with antibiotics and pharmacokinetics of anti-bacterial compounds Contacts at CRU: Anders.Franklin@sva.se and Karin.Persson-Waller@sva.se
Subproject 4: In vitro methods for sperm assessment to predict bull fertility. Contact at CRU: Birgitta.Larsson@og.slu.se
Subproject 5: Use of new tools to improve reproductive performance in cattle Contact at CRU: Hans.Kindahl@og.slu.se
Subproject 6: The role of viral infection in bovine reproductive failure in estonia, with special emphasis on BVDV and IBR virus. Contact at CRU: Stefan.Alenius@ime.slu.se
Subproject 7: Use of artificial insemination
(A.I.) for preservation and improvement of Estonian horse breeds.
Contact at CRU: Stig.Einarsson@og.slu.se
Subproject 8: Correlation between ultrasonography
and histology in diagnosis of uterine pathology.
Contact at CRU: Kerstin.Hansson@klra.slu.se
ReproSafe
The ReproSafe programme addresses the issue of a growing scientific and public concern that chemicals in the environment may impair human and wildlife reproduction. It is supported by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (Naturvårdsverket) with 32.5 million SEK during a five-year period (2001-2006). For further information, click here.
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