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REAL TIME TRAINING

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18-22 Feb / Uganda

The preparations for our first real time training course in Uganda, which will also be our 30th in Africa, are well underway. Invitations have been sent, logistics firmed up and flights are being planned. Our colleagues in Uganda are also hard at work.

FMD Control and Surveillance

10-14 Dec. / Turkey

The third workshop on “FMD Control and Surveillance” for the east and southeast Turkey, is currently underway for 23 provincial level official veterinarians, under the guidance of EuFMD experts. The workshop is focussing on FMD situations, risk based control strategy in Turkey and outbreak investigation. The field exercise includes FMD outbreak investigation, clinical surveillance, outbreak management and biosecurity.

WORKSHOPS

Simulation Exercise

26 -29 Nov. / Greece

Nineteen colleagues from the veterinary services of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, FYR of Macedonia, France, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Slovakia and Turkey, traveled to Athens for a EuFMD workshop on Simulation Exercise for Foot-and-Mouth Disease. The training activities were planned and delivered by the EuFMD training team and three expert consultants from Denmark, Ireland and the UK. Topics covered included key concepts of simulation exercise, such as selection, execution and evaluation. The skills acquired through this workshop should allow participants to design, implement and assess the most appropriate simulation exercises for their individual circumstances/needs.

Simulation Exercise

3- 6 Dec. / Strumica

EuFMD and the Food and Veterinary Agency of The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia delivered a foot-and-mouth disease (simulation exercise in Strumica in the south of the country. The contingency plan and standard operating procedures of the country were the central focus for the exercise. The exercise was split into two exercises with one as a series of drills on farm and the other a desktop. The on farm exercise saw participants undertake the practical skills required for an FMD suspicion case. For the desktop, the participants were split into groups to produce a depopulation for different animal holdings confirmed with FMD. The event was very well received and the country will incorporate the outcomes of this exercise into a long term GET (Guide to Exercises and Training) Prepared Plan consisting of future training events and simulation exercises.

FMD Wildlife Surveillance -Upcoming

21 -24 Jan. 2019 / Spain

The EuFMD training team and three expert consultants designed the “Foot-and-Mouth Disease Wildlife Surveillance” workshop, which is part of the 2017-2019 training program. It aims to provide participants with a better understanding of FMD surveillance in wildlife, particularly by using non-invasive surveillance methods. The workshop will be supported by the Institute of Game and Wildlife Research (IREC) (http://www.irec.es/en/). In order to achieve the outcomes, the activities planned include facilitated discussions, group work sessions and two field visits to hunting grounds; where participants will have the opportunity to put into practice their knowledge on wildlife surveillance, biosecurity measures and sampling when suspecting transboundary animal diseases.

ONLINE TRAINING

E-LEARNING: ONLINE COURSES / TRAINING

Investigation Training course for East Africa

22 Nov - 17 Dec. / Online

The online training FMD investigation training course for East Africa is about to finish. It was coordinated by JeanClaude Udahemuka, tutored by Melissa Mclaws, Kees Van Maanem and Theo KinghtJones. Over 230 participants are taking the online assessment in these days. A very active network of experts was created as the course was also available on Whatapp.

Investigation Training course in Arabic

29 Nov - 21 Dec. / Online

The EuFMD launched the second online FMD investigation-training course in Arabic, with 249 participants, including private vets, from 14 countries from the Middle East and North Africa. This course will allow the participants to improve their understanding of the diagnosis, investigation and response to outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease. The course is being taught in parallel on Whatapp.

Online Investigation for West and Central Africa

Upcoming (Feb 2019). / Online

You may self nominate if from the region. Register today! Also delivered via Whatapp

PCP-FMD courses

Anytime. / Online

Recently updated open access courses!

IZSLER

14-17 Dec. / Italy

Over the past few years, EuFMD has organized a series of supporting activities for the national reference laboratories in the Balkan countries, which resulted in an improved and upgraded diagnostic capacities for rapid and accurate confirmation of any potential FMD outbreak. Additional support activities are planned in close collaboration with the FAO/OIE Reference Laboratory from Brescia. Kiril, our EuFMD expert will visit the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna (IZSLER) to meet and discuss the best ways to ensure continuous preparedness for emergency response of the laboratories, and to agree on the format of the future support of the laboratory in the Balkan region.

Post Vaccination Monitoring

13-17 Feb. / Egypt

This workshop will focus on current approaches on FMD vaccination and PVM, capacity building on on evaluating FMD vaccination and post-vaccination monitoring PVM and strengthen networking among all parties who are involved on FMD vaccination and PVM in Egypt.

Tripartite Meeting

17 Jan. / Sofia, Bulgaria

FAO-EuFMD/EC/OIE - Tripartite meeting on Control of FMD and Similar Transboundary diseases in the Thrace region of Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey. This meeting will be in the morning of the 17 January and the agenda is available upon request.