International School for Communicable Animal Diseases (EIEAC). CEI Campus Moncloa
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International School for Communicable Animal Diseases
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INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICABLE ANIMAL DISEASES
The objectives of the International School for Communicable Animal Diseases (EIEAC) are focused on development of an international school able to give technical and scientific training on the fight and eradication of infectious communicable animal diseases, mainly zoonosis, whose specialized teaching would cover all sanitary, legal and logistic aspects involved.
Description of the action
Recently VISAVET has been designated as a Reference Laboratory regarding bovine Tuberculosis. The Health Surveillance Centre (VISAVET) of the Complutense University was already a Reference Laboratory for the World Health Organization concerning the African Horse Plague and the African swine fever.
Thus, the possibility of increasing its training capacity and international visibility by means of the establishment of internationally uniform criteria has been identified.
This would guarantee quality, standardized and equivalent training on this field throughout Europe. The location of the school in the reference laboratories will assure that the teaching received will respond to the needs of the control and eradication programmes, and that the transfer of the knowledge gained at the laboratory will take place on an international level.
Rationale for the action
The topics included in the activities of the International School still are very important and relevant for many countries, Mediterranean and developing countries mainly. However, the fact that most of them are exotic for the developed countries, the risk of the transmission to men and others animals, the difficulty in maintaining infected animals, the necessity of special infrastructures and the high degree of specialization required for its diagnosis, the training on these diseases at present is inadequately covered.
Moreover, the foundation of this International School will constitute the origin of an International Agro-Food school, supported by the leading experts in this scientific field.
Key planned and impact planned
Between the whole results, it must be emphasized the following:
- Establishment of a quality, standardized and equivalent training programme throughout the European Union, based on the structure and tasks of the reference laboratories.
- Establishment of the infrastructure necessary to increase the range of action of the School, allowing the creation of an International School in other important fields in the Agricultural Sciences area, which would be run by experts in each field.
- Cooperation among institutions, which would guarantee that teaching given in the school, would come from the best experts in the field.
Impact:
It is expected that in the near future the European Union will legislate the minimum requirement for the European oficial veterinarians in the field of the transmissible diseases under control and eradication programmes.
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