Partners

PAN-Livestock services is an independent consultancy company, established in 1980, specializing in livestock development. The company is based in the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development at the University of Reading, close to London in the south of England. PAN Livestock Services' activities are aimed at improving the circumstances of livestock producers and consumers of livestock products through more appropriate and effective livestock services and management. PAN Livestock Services works closely with VEERU, the Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics Research Unit of the University of Reading (UK). This collaboration produces an
innovative, flexible and multi-disciplinary team. PAN-Livestock is one of the founding partners of Avia-GIS in which it holds ten percent of the shares. Link to PAN-Livestock: http://www.panlivestock.com/. Link to VEERU: http://www.veeru.reading.ac.uk/.

Environmental Research Group Oxford (ERGO), Oxford, United Kingdom, is a company established in 1985, which specializes in applied research for sustainable development and provides a broad spectrum of advisory services relating to environmental assessment, natural resource management, project implementation and technical back-stopping, including: independent reviews, resource surveys, biodiversity studies, GIS applications, image processing, spatial analysis, rural appraisal, monitoring and evaluation.
Avia-GIS established jointly with ERGO a European economic interest grouping: European Agro-Environmental Health Associates (Euro-AEGIS). The aim of this grouping is to join forces into submitting and implementing projects related to the application of remote sensing and spatial information systems in the field of 'health and environment'. Link to ERGO: http://ergoonline.co.uk/.

Avia-GIS has a longstanding record of collaboration with the Veterinary Department of The Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Link to ITM: http://www.itg.be/itg/GeneralSite/Generalpage.asp.

• MSTAH: GIS module of the Masters Course on Tropical Animal Health and Production
• FRAGFLY: Environmental changes in Africa and tsetse habitat fragmentation: epidemiological consequences and perspectives for control (Wellcome Trust project).
• Distance Learning
• EPISTIS: Remote Sensing tools to study the Epidemiology and Space/Time dynamics of diseases.
• MODIRISK: Mosquito vectors of disease: spatial biodiversity, drivers of change, and risk.
• ParaGIS

Avia-GIS has a 5 year collaboration agreement with the with the Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Gent, Belgium. Contact: Jef Vercruysse. Link: http://users.ugent.be/~ddmeulen/VPI.html. Projects include: Vet-geoTools, ParaGIS.

Avia-GIS has a 5 year collaboration agreement with the Epidemiology Unit from the Department of the Department of Reproduction, Obstetrics and Herd Health from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Gent, Belgium. Contact: Jeroen Dewulf. Link: http://www.rohh.ugent.be/. Projects include: Vet-geoTools, AIRISK (submitted).

Major long term R&D projects in which Avia-GIS is a partner (see also project thumbnail):

• EDEN: Emerging Diseases in a changing European Environment. Project coordinated by CIRAD, Montpellier, France.
• Link EDEN: http://www.eden-fp6project.net/
  
• Link CIRAD: www.cirad.fr
  
• GMFS: Global Monitoring for Food Security. Project coordinated by the TAP group of VITO, Mol, Belgium.
• Link GMFS: http://www.gmfs.info/
• Link VITO-TAP: http://www.vito.be/english/environment/tap.htm
  
• EPISTIS: Remote Sensing tools to study the Epidemiology and Space/Time dynamics of diseases.
• ULB Institut de Gestion de l'Environnement et d'Amenagement du Territoire (IGEAT): http://www.ulb.ac.be/igeat/igeat/ulb_igeat/code/fr/acti_syst_accu.htm
• UCL Unité de Géographie: http://www.geo.ucl.ac.be/
• ULB Lutte Biologique et Ecologie Spatiales (Lubies): http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/lubies/
• ITG Prins Leopold Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde: www.itg.be
• IZS Istituto Zooprofilatico Sperimentale dell Abruzzo et del Molisa G. Caporale: www.izs.be
• University of Pretoria Faculty of Veterinary Sciences: http://www.up.ac.za/
• MODIRISK: Mosquito vectors of disease: spatial biodiversity, drivers of change, and risk.
• ITG Prins Leopold Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde: www.itg.be
• KBIN Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences: www.natuurwetenschappen.be
• Wageningen Universiteit: http://www.ent.wur.nl/UK
• UCL Unité d'écologie et de biogéographie: http://www.ecol.ucl.ac.be/

Avia-GIS currently is developing Vet-geoTools, a veterinary information system. In the framework of this initiative a network of formal collaborations is established:

• With the Federal Food Agency (AFCSA), Brussels, Belgium. Contacts: Philippe Houdart and Jean-Marie Robijns. Link: http://www.favv-afsca.fgov.be
• With the provincial veterinary laboratory network, Dierengezondheidszorg Vlaanderen VZW, Lier, Belgium. Contact: Patrick Biront. Link: http://www.dierengezondheidszorg.be
  
• With the Coordination Centre for Veterinary Diagnostics from the Veterinary and Agrochemical Research Centre, Ukkel, Belgium. Contact: Koen Mintiens. Link: http://www.var.fgov.be/ccvd_eng.php
• With the Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Gent, Belgium. Contact: Jef Vercruysse. Link: http://users.ugent.be/~ddmeulen/VPI.html
• With the Epidemiology Unit from the Department of the Department of Reproduction, Obstetrics and Herd Health from the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Gent, Belgium. Contact: Jeroen Dewulf. Link: http://www.rohh.ugent.be
  

Management partners. As an SME Avia-GIS relies on the following partners for management support:

• InnoTek. Link: http://www.innotekbic.be/innoteksite/default.aspx
• Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen. Link: http://www.khk.be/
• Plato Project. Link: http://www.plato.be/contact.htm
• Strategisch Plan Kempen. Link: http://www.spk.be/spk/default.aspx

Funding Agencies. Avia-GIS project funding originates from the following agencies:

• African Development Bank. Link: http://www.afdb.org/
• Belspo - Belgian Science Policy Office, Brussels, Belgium. Link: http://www.belspo.be
• CIRAD - Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement, Montpellier, France. Link: http://www.cirad.fr/fr/index.php
• DFID - UK Department for International Development, London, UK. Link: http://www.dfid.gov.uk
• EC-FP6 - European Commission sixth framework program, Brussels, Belgium. Link: http://fp6.cordis.lu/fp6/home.cfm
• EFSA - European Food Safety Agency. Link: http://www.efsa.europa.eu/
• ESA - European Space Agency. Link: http://www.esa.int/
• FAO - Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.. Link: http://www.fao.org
• FOD Volksgezondheid. Link: https://portal.health.fgov.be/
• IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency of the United Nations, Vienna, Austria.. Link: http://www.iaea.org
• ILRI - International Livestock Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya. Link: http://www.ilri.org
• ITM - Institute for Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium. Link: http://www.itg.be/itg/GeneralSite/Generalpage.asp
• IWT - Instituut voor de aanmoediging van innovatie door wetenschap en technologie in Vlaanderen. Link: http://www.iwt.be/
• IZS - Istituo Zooprofilatico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo et del Molise G. Caporale. Link: http://www.izs.it/
• UGent Faculteit Diergeneeskunde Departement Virologie. Link: http://users.ugent.be/~ddmeulen/VPI.html
• Wellcome Trust Fund. Link: www.wellcome.ac.uk
• WHO - World Health Organisation of the United Nations, Geneva, Suisse. Link: http://www.who.org