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The two-day professional workshop “Animal Welfare, Environment and Zoonoses: Where One Health Pathways Intersect” was held on 26–27 January 2026 at Hotel Terme Tuhelj, Croatia. The workshop was jointly organised by the Regional Animal Welfare Centre (RAWC) and the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, with the great support of RSPCA Europe. This workshop […]
The Regional Animal Welfare Centre (RAWC) actively participated in the Regional Workshop on Animal Welfare During Slaughter and on Developing National Action Plans for Animal Welfare, organised by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) – Regional Representation for Europe, in collaboration with the European Union and hosted by Albania. The workshop took place in […]
Dog population management in the region remains a key priority for RAWC. Most countries in the Balkans have national legislation in place that regulates dog control, sets rules for keeping owned animals (including commercial breeding), and requires identification and responsible ownership. However, effectively addressing the stray dog population continues to be a challenge that demands […]
The 2nd RAWC Conference will take place in the Hotel Croatia, Cavtat, Croatia from 15th – 17th of October 2024.We call on our members, as well as scientists and particularly young scholars, to participate in this conference by presenting a paper, oral or poster, and taking an active role in our network. The main theme […]
The second RAWC animal welfare conference will be held from 15. – 17. October 2024 in the city of Cavtat, Croatia. The conference will include oral and poster presentations on the topics – Animals in communities; Animals in food production; Human-animal relationship and Animals and the environment, including keynote lectures from Donald Broom, James Serpell […]
As part of the LIFT project, the training school named Positive Animal Welfare: Taking it to the Next Level will take place at the University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Animal Sciences, Groblje 3, Rodica,1230 Domžale, Slovenia for two days between September 28 and 29, 2023. It specifically targets the focus of Action COST […]
RAWC annual meeting of 2022 was held in Terme Tuhelj, Croatia on 27-28 November. The meeting was organized as a series of lectures and in the final part active discussions regarding several hot regional animal welfare topics such as – fish welfare, the welfare of working animals, welfare in disaster situations, and the development of […]
Dog population management in the region is still a targeted priority by RAWC. Most countries in the Balkans have national legislation regulating the control of dogs and set rules for owned animals, including commercial breeding and keeping of animals, as well as identification of animals. The management of dog populations remains to be a challenge […]
We would like to thank all the speakers and participants for a very fruitful and interesting Conference. As you are all aware we wanted to hold a Conference in a beautiful Thessaloniki but life and nature took another turn so we had to reschedule it for over a year and at the end held it […]
We would like to inform you that the Organising Committee of the 1st RAWC Scientific Conference reached a decision to hold an online event on 24-25 of June 2021. Although our preference would have been to organize a live event, due to the current COVID-19 situation and so many uncertainties still surrounding it, the Committee believes […]
Dear participants, Unfortunately, we have just received the news that the Greek government has announced special measures to fight the coronavirus. Under the new restrictions, all international conferences have been prohibited for the next four weeks. Given the circumstances, we have no choice but TO POSTPONE THE CONFERENCE UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Please share this news […]
Dear all, In light of the recent events regarding the coronavirus occurrence in Europe, and subsequently, in Thessaloniki, Greece, we would like to inform you that Organising Committee is keeping a close track of the updates released by the Greek authorities. From today’s standpoint, there is no travel or any other restrictions so our conference […]