About BovINE

BEEF INNOVATION NETWORK EUROPE

BovINE has published the 16-page BovINE Magazine on Sustainability and Beef Farming. Read about the work of the BovINE project over the last three years, the practical solutions identified to address the challenges collected from beef farmers, the project’s outreach activities and the range of resources available. Click on the arrows to view all the pages and download via the three dots (…) image in the bar below:

The BovINE Project

BovINE (Beef Innovation Network Europe) was established across 10 member states that focused solely on the needs of the 255,000 farms which constitute the EU bovine meat sector. BovINE tackled the urgent sustainability challenges faced by beef producers by bringing together beef farmers, farming organisations, advisors and researchers to collectively develop practical innovations that could be implemented on European beef farms.

Coordinated by Teagasc (IE), BovINE was built around a multi-actor approach that required intense cooperation between researchers, advisors, farmers and other relevant actors/players in the beef industry to better facilitate knowledge exchange and acceptance of co-created solutions.

BovINE drew on the reservoir of knowledge that existed at the farm level on the four related key themes of socio-economic resilience, animal health and welfare, production efficiency & quality and environmental sustainability. Using those same themes, the project also identified research findings that still need to be widely adopted at the farm level and examined their feasibility on multiple demonstration beef farms across Europe.

Formed through driving effective cooperation between beef producers and researchers, the BovINE transnational ecosystem stimulated knowledge exchange at an international level which will boost the economic viability and sustainability of the European beef sector.

Project Aims

The BovINE project aimed to stimulate and foster knowledge exchange and the integration of research and good practice into practical innovation at regional, national and international levels between the relevant actors within the European beef sector.
The specific objectives were to:

Establish a network of EU beef farmers, farming organisations, researchers, advisors, other agricultural professionals, and other relevant actors/players, driven by four sub-thematic (Socio-Economic Resilience, Animal Health & Welfare, Production Efficiency & Meat Quality and Environmental Sustainability) and nine national/regional sub-networks
Identify and assess beef farmers’ urgent knowledge needs, and evaluate dissemination channels and formats appropriate to share such knowledge, taking account of regional/national specificities
Create an online archive (the BovINE knowledge hub (BKH)) of practice-ready research solutions and good practices previously analysed in terms of cost-benefit and ability to address beef farmers’ needs, which is accessible to all players in the European beef industry
Create and disseminate end-user material to demonstrate good practice and practice-ready research to the relevant audiences (beef farmers, advisors, policymakers)
Collate ideas from end-users for further innovation-driven research, and communicate this back to the EIP-AGRI network and policymakers

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BovINE

Beef Innovation Network Europe

Please address all mail to:

FAO: Maeve Henchion
The BovINE Project
Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre
Dublin 15
D15 KN3K

Communications contact: bovine@minervacomms.net

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 rural
renaissance programme | Project No: 862590 under call H2020-RUR-2019-15