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1. Scope and responsibility for data processing

 

This privacy policy applies to all personal data collected as part of the dissemination and co-innovation activities within the Horizon Europe aWISH project.
The entity responsible for processing this data is:

The project aWISH has received funding from the European Union Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Program under Grant Agreement No. 101060818.

The user must carefully read this privacy policy and decide freely if he/she intends to provide his/her personal data to the aWISH project before communicating data. The user guarantees that he/she is of legal age and that the data communicated are true, accurate, complete and current, being responsible for any nonconformity. If the data communicated belongs to a third party, the user guarantees that he/she informed the third party about the conditions provided in this document and that he/she was authorized to provide his/her data to the aWISH project for the indicated purposes.

You may contact aWISH on any matter related to this privacy policy, through aWISH Coordinator’s secretariat:

Coordinator ILVO: awish@ilvo.vlaanderen.be

2. Purposes of the treatment and legal basis


The personal data according with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and collected through this website are intended to allow the following operations:

  • Participation in workshops, seminars, conferences, webinars and other events organized by the Horizon Europe project aWISH;
  • Participation in surveys, questionnaires or similar enquiries, organized by the Horizon Europe project aWISH;
 
  • aWISH official public reports and public Deliverables that collected data and will be available on different channels of the project. Other reports and Deliverables will be covered by all EU rules.
  • aWISH research communications, such as newsletters, news or other related activities

    The processing of personal data is necessary to carry out the aforementioned operations.

 

3. Recipients

 

The personal data of the user may be communicated to a suitable service provider contracted by the aWISH project, which will treat the data exclusively for the purposes established by the aWISH project and in compliance with the instructions issued by the aWISH project, strictly complying with the legal rules on data protection information security and other applicable standards, pursuant to a written agreement between the parties.

 

4. Cookies

 

If you leave a message on our website, your name and email address will be saved in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

This portal uses web analytics service provided by BIOSENSE. Cookies (small text files stored locally on your computer) are used to help analyse how people use this portal. The collected information, including your IP-address, will be stored on servers in Serbia.

aWISH and BIOSENSE will use this information to generate reports on portal usage. aWISH and BIOSENSE will only share the collected information with third parties when legally required to do so. Your IP-address will not be combined with that of other websites or other data sources that are available to aWISH and BIOSENSE.

 

 

5. International data transfers

 

The aWISH project will process user data in its entirety within the territory of the European Economic Area (EEA) and therefore does not provide for any international transfer of data.

 

6. Shelf life

 

The aWISH project will keep the personal data of the users for the period necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes for which they were collected; The aWISH project will maintain these data through the period that it is obliged to by the law. The aWISH project may also keep the data beyond these periods for statistical purposes, and for this purpose anonymize them.

 

7. User rights

 

The user has the right to request from the aWISH project access to personal data concerning him/her, as well as his rectification or deletion, and the limitation of the treatment with respect to the user, or the right to object to the treatment, as well as the right to portability of data, in accordance with the laws governing the processing of personal data.

To exercise the aforementioned rights, the user may contact the data controller through the addresses indicated in paragraph 1 of this policy. He/she can also file a complaint with its National Data Protection Authority. More information on this can be found at the website for the European authority https://edpb.europa.eu/.

 

8. Further information

 

The institutions in the consortium implementing the project aWISH have all signed a Consortium Agreement in which they accept to ensure that their collection, processing and sharing of Personal Data and/or Special Category Data of Personal Data are in

 

compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) and other applicant regulation on Personal Data.
aWISH is furthermore part of the EU’s Open Research Data Pilot (ORDP). The project’s Data Management Plan can be found here.

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1. aWISH Introduction

We would like to invite you to participate in the aWISH Expert Panel, as we believe that your experience and knowledge will contribute greatly to a key consultation body of the project. aWISH is a 4-year project funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme. Before you decide to participate in the aWISH Expert Panel, please take the time to read this document carefully to understand what your involvement will be in our project’s activity. If there is anything you do not understand, please feel free to ask questions.

1.1 What is the aWISH project about?

In the EU, a challenge that still remains is to reconcile the social and moral demand for a high level of animal welfare with other pillars of sustainable livestock production. Indeed, 82% of Europeans believe that farm animals should be better protected than they currently are. A broad definition of animal welfare refers to the feelings and physical well-being of an individual animal. Broilers and pigs are the farm animals EU citizens care most about, and they are also the most important meat-producing animals in the EU and worldwide. Both pigs and broilers have significant welfare problems at all stages of production (on-farm, loading and transport, unloading and slaughter), leading a growing number of citizens to question the social license to produce. Ambitious and effective, but also practical and efficient solutions are needed. This is where the aWISH project comes in to fill this gap! The aim of aWISH is to develop and provide a cost-effective solution for assessing and improving the welfare of meat-producing livestock in Europe. The aWISH solution is based on the automatic monitoring of animal-related indicators at slaughter. The necessary technologies will also be developed to collect complementary data on farm or during transport. Pilot and development activities will be carried out in 6 broiler and fattening pig production chains across Europe using a lean multi-actor approach to test and validate the project results. A catalogue of animal welfare indicators will disseminate all validated indicators and standardised data collection methods. Best practice guides will be developed to improve key aspects of animal welfare in pigs and broilers and to help external stakeholders use aWISH technologies and tools. In this context, the aWISH project will set up expert panels that will be composed of representatives of actors from the entire farm to fork value chain across the EU. The expert panels will have the function to retrieve and share feedback on technology, processes, farming practices, industry, sector regulation and markets, as well as society and perceptions. In this way, stakeholder participation in expert panels could help initiate interdisciplinary dialogue, promote interaction with target groups and associations, and strengthen trust between different actors.

2. Useful Information

2.1 Is my participation voluntary and what does it involve?

Your participation in the aWISH project is entirely voluntary. If you decide to participate in an aWISH activity, we will ask you to sign an Informed Consent Form to collect and process your data. The project will last 48 months, but you will only participate for as long as you wish.

2.2 Purpose of personal data collection

As mentioned above, the expert panel will have the function to retrieve and share feedback on technology, processes, farming practices, industry, sector regulation and markets, as well as society and perceptions. In order to do this effectively, we need to process some of your personal data:
  • Your contact information
  • Demographic information (age, gender, country of origin)
  • Professional information (where do you work, what position do you hold, what is your area of expertise)
  • Personal opinions on the subject

2.3 What we will do with your data

The information you provide is confidential. Your consent form will be kept separate from the observations collected during the course of the project activity. We will share your data with other aWISH project partners involved in the data analysis and reporting process. Once the data is analysed, a report of the findings may be submitted for publication. The project's deliverables that will be derived by this activity will not include your personal data or any other information that could identify you. The results of this project activity may also be shared with representatives of the European Union (e.g. the Project Officer evaluating the project's or the reviewing EU agencies). Only broad trends will be reported and it will not be possible to identify any individuals.

3. Access, deletion of information or withdrawal of consent

Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to request to: (i) provide you with a copy of your data; (ii) correct your data if you believe they are inaccurate; (iii) erase your data; (iv) restrict or stop processing your data; or (v) provide your data in an appropriate format and transfer them to another organisation. In addition, you may withdraw your consent and therefore your participation at any time without consequence. Anonymous data already collected will be used as we cannot trace the information back to you. No further data will be collected or other procedures carried out in relation to your information. If you wish to have the personal data we hold checked, amended, corrected or deleted, or if you wish to withdraw your consent, you can contact the responsible partner listed below.

4. Contact Information

Partner name: WHITE RESEARCH SRL
e-mail: akyriakidis@white-research.eu

5. Informed Consent Form

I confirm that I understand that by ticking each box below I am consenting to this element of the study. I understand that it will be assumed that unticked boxes mean that I DO NOT consent to that part of the study. I also understand that by not giving consent for any of the elements, I may be deemed ineligible for participating in this project’s activity.
 

6. Declaration of Acceptance

I, the undersigned
acknowledge that I have read and agree to be bound by the aWISH Expert Panel Terms of Reference. I agree to participate in the aWISH Expert Panel in my individual capacity and, as such, may not assign or be substituted for any other person to perform the work without prior written agreement with the aWISH Expert Panel Consortium. I agree not to disclose any information given in the course of the Expert Panel’s work unless the aWISH Consortium agrees to releases me from this obligation, and to respects the confidentiality requirements. I declare that I fully and unconditionally accept my appointment as an aWISH Expert Panel member as described in the Terms of Reference. I agree that any contribution I make as an aWISH Expert Panel member may be used by the aWISH consortium for reporting purposes or to align project activities to the needs of relevant stakeholders. I consent to the processing of my personal data necessary for my participation in the aWISH Expert Panel.

Welcome to the awISH Project website

Before we dig in we would like to know a little more about you. Group that describes you the best is: