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Applications are now open for Missions Occurring between 1 Aug 2015 and 31 January 2016

Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are aimed at supporting individual mobility and at strengthening the existing networks and fostering collaborations by allowing scientists to visit an institution in another participating COST country or an approved NNC or IPC institution.

This second STSM call aims to attract applications from researchers wishing to contribute to the tasks of Working Group 1 (WG1), i.e. to inform and engage in the development of a handbook/protocol for evaluation of One Health initiatives.

STSMs in NEOH should specifically contribute to the scientific objectives of the COST Action, whilst at the same time allowing those partaking in the missions to learn new techniques, gain access to specific data, instruments and / or methods not available in their own institutions / organisations, in particular of relevance for developing and performing evaluations of One Health activities.

Highest priority should be given to encouragement of early-stage career investigators’ (ECIs) participation in the COST Action activities.

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The WVA/WMA Global Conference on One Health (held in Madrid, Spain on 21-22 May 2015), brought together 330 delegates from 40 countries around the world to discuss the One Health Concept.

NEOH members Margarita Martín Castillo, Valeria Grieco, and Karin Artursson presented a NEOH poster.
A presentation was given by NEOH member Katinka de Balogh from FAO who emphasised that the tripartite agencies provide international support for national systems strengthening and building on existing systems including for surveillance, that cross-sectoral collaboration is required for real-time information exchange for reducing public health threats at the human-animal-ecosystems interface and that transparency and trust are important to building effective cross-sectoral relationships.

To read all the contributions and see the presentations, please use the following link to the official conference report http://worldvet.org/news.php?item=233.

The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, has concluded an agreement with the Hong Kong Government.

The Memorandum of Understanding focuses on researchers from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies and the Roslin Institute, and will encourage more exchange programmes and increased knowledge transfer with animal health professionals in Hong Kong.

The signing took place at a two-day workshop at the Hong Kong Science Museum. A wide range of topics were discussed, with an overarching theme of One Health – the concept that human and animal medicine are inextricably linked, with research outcomes which are applicable to more than one species.

More information and a short video can be found at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/news/2015/hongkong-220515

In 2008, the University of Zurich (UZH) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Makerere University in Uganda (MAK). The partnership with MAK is in the focus of the North-South Cooperation which aims to establish sustainable institutional partnerships African universities.