STW pre-announces Breed4Food Partnership

Technology Foundation STW announces a partnership with Breed4Food, an initiative of four Netherlands-based animal breeding companies (TOPIGS, CRV, Hendrix Genetics and Cobb Europe). The partnership will open November 3, 2014. The STW-Breed4Food Partnership focusses on the development of novel genetic and genomic tools through innovative science, beneficial to the breeding, production and consumption of animal proteins with a strong commitment to responsible stewardship of animal resources. The deadline for pre-proposals is December 1, 2014. 

A budget of € 3,000,000 is available. Project costs that can be requested from STW are up to € 750,000 per project.

STW Partnership programmes foster collaboration between academic and industrial researchers. The main deliverables of the STW-Breed4Food Partnership are:

New excellent and distinct knowledge to be applied in animal breeding; 
Methods and tools for efficient and effective individual phenotyping; 
Accurate prediction of the phenotype using genomic approaches.