Digitalization associated with Animal Welfare
Name: Digitalization associated with Animal Welfare
Code: ERU15783O
1 ECTS
Duration: 2 weeks/26 hours
Scientific Area:
Rural Engineering
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
To provide students with knowledge about:
- animal welfare indicators
- animal welfare assessment
- technologies for real time measuring indicators and animal welfare monitoring
Students will be able to assess animal welfare conditions on livestock farms, objectively and in real time.
They will acquire some specific technical skills regarding the assessment of animal welfare and transversal skills regarding the presentation of assessment models in different contexts
- animal welfare indicators
- animal welfare assessment
- technologies for real time measuring indicators and animal welfare monitoring
Students will be able to assess animal welfare conditions on livestock farms, objectively and in real time.
They will acquire some specific technical skills regarding the assessment of animal welfare and transversal skills regarding the presentation of assessment models in different contexts
Contents
Definition of animal welfare. Animal welfare indicators. Assessment of Animal Welfare Monitoring and Control of Animal Welfare using digital technologies.
Teaching Methods
Theoretical-practical classes: expositive method, active methodologies and collaborative work. Seminars: experts will be invited on certain subjects to allow the deepening of some subjects.
Assessment
As a way of assessing whether students understood the theoretical and practical aspects, assessment through practical application work, done in group.
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