1 DISCONTOOLS Activities Update Morgane Delavergne – DISCONTOOLS Project Manager 2 nd December 2008 ETPGAH Mirror Groups meeting – Hotel Châtelain, Brussels

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DISCONTOOLS Activities Update

Morgane Delavergne – DISCONTOOLS Project Manager

2nd December 2008

ETPGAH Mirror Groups meeting – Hotel Châtelain, Brussels

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Primary Objective

– Enable research to be optimised by public and private funders in a more effective manner

– Enable new and improved tools to be developed and delivered

– Control of the major diseases of animals, including zoonoses

2nd December 2008 ETPGAH Mirror Groups meeting – Hotel Châtelain, Brussels

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Complementary work strands

1. Provide a validated database and peer review methodology in order to prioritise infectious animal diseases

2. Gap analysis to identify areas where:– information and knowledge of the disease is

deficient– Current tools are lacking, inadequate or could be

improved

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Complementary work strands

3.Identify current and new technological tools that may be used to improve the ability to control infectious animal diseases

– Review of existing arrangements by stakeholders

– Development of methodologies to identify and evaluate new technology


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Interaction of 5 working packages (WP)• WP1: Establish and maintain effective management and

coordination of the project involving all stakeholders

• WP2: Prioritise diseases

- Assemble up to date information from experts (drawn from stakeholders and individuals)

- Place it on a public website- Invite input- Update via approval of experts

Living and evolving database


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Interaction of 5 working packages (WP)WP2: Prioritise diseases

- 1st meeting held in Brussels on the 20th October 2008 in DG RESEARCH Offices

- Important range of stakeholders: pharmaceutical industry, diagnostic industry, international organisations, universities, agriculture and food…

- Outcome: 1. Good and open discussions on prioritisation methods and criteria to

score the diseases.2. Definition of a set of actions to implement before next meeting on

the 10th of March 2009:

- Mainly an agreed list of criteria on which to base prioritisation and a disease database for prioritisation and gap analysis information


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Interaction of 5 working packages (WP)

WP3: Gap analysis of the priority diseases

- develop a methodology for gap analysis - Invite stakeholder representatives to decide on the

critical gaps- Aim research at filling the gaps


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WP3: Gap analysis of the priority diseases

- 1st meeting held in Brussels on the 24th October 2008 in DG RESEARCH Offices

- Good representation of stakeholders- Outcome: 1. Good and open discussions on Gap Analysis methods and criteria2. Definition of a set of actions to implement before next meeting on

the 31st of March 2009:- Inventory of Gap Analysis methods, propose a list of experts on

each disease, provide comments on the criteria chosen by WP2.


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WP4: Identify and evaluate new technologies

- Horizon scan for new technologies

- Human health, biotechnology, crop protection, nanotechnology, chemistry, biocides, etc.

- Ensure deployment in the animal health sector as early as possible


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Interaction of 5 working packages (WP)WP4: Identify and evaluate new technologies

- 1st meeting held in Brussels on the 31st October 2008 in DG RESEARCH Offices

- Good representation of stakeholders and technology industries

- Outcome: 1. Discussions on current and future technologies in Animal health

and other sectors.

2. Definition of a set of actions to identify useful new technologies, to be implemented before next meeting on the 24th of March 2009.


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WP5:Ensure the effective communication and dissemination of information from the project

- DISCONTOOLS secretariat


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Main features of the project

• Stakeholders– Involvement of a wide range.

– Active participation in the governance of the project

– Contribution from research through to delivery


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Main features of the project

• Assists

- DG Research and the ERA-Net in prioritising research

- DG Sanco in the context of the Community Animal Health Policy – CAHP

- EFSA and ECDC in attempting to prioritise zoonoses and to look at emerging zoonoses


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Coordination with the ETPGAH

- DISCONTOOLS is a tool first described in the ETPGAH Action Plan

- The project has a short life-time

- ETPGAH is fixed and a long-term initiative

- Mirror groups communication on their national activities with an influence on National Research


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1 DISCONTOOLS Activities Update Morgane Delavergne – DISCONTOOLS Project Manager 2 nd December 2008 ETPGAH Mirror Groups meeting – Hotel Châtelain, Brussels