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European Cattle Innovation Partnership What is it? It is a partnership of the dairy levy collecting organisations in a number of EU countries, to enable them to collaborate in order to share information about dairy research, reduce duplication of research, explore ways to collaborate on projects and apply for EU funding. Who is involved? UK – DairyCo Northern Ireland – AgriSearch France – CNIEL and FNPL The Netherlands – Dutch Dairy Board and LTO (Dutch Farm Union) Denmark – Knowledge Centre for Agriculture Israel – Israel Dairy Board Sweden – Swedish Farmers Federation Ireland – Dairy Research Trust Italy - CRPA http://www.scar-cwg-ahw.org/index.php/livestock-sectors/cattle/ What has it done? • Developed a network which is willing to contribute inputs and co-operate about sharing information and avoiding duplication. • Prepared the Eurodairy application for Horizon 2020 funding. • Preparing an inventory compiled as a database, to scope current levy body activities in R&D and KT • Over 200 projects listed, across 7 countries • Research topics of common interest identified • Including outputs readily translatable to other states • ‘Increasing Resource Efficiency’ emerged as theme for further collaboration • Topics identified as case studies: – Protein nutrition of dairy cattle – Water efficiency – Phosphorus use efficiency – Energy use on dairy farms • To evaluate whether, through co-operation, it would be feasible to:- – Increase efficiency by avoiding duplication – Exploit the results of existing research by sharing knowledge – Better return on public and private research spend

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