Result description
The main aim of the project is to develop region-specific, sustainable adaptation strategies for dairy housing, focusing on an optimized climatisation of naturally ventilated buildings. It was possible to achieve due to strong collaboration between consortium, stakeholders and the advisory board as well as dissemination of the project between the public via media, and through scientific conferences and papers. Naturally ventilated buildings (NVB), are often used for dairy cattle housing, and are particularly vulnerable to climate change since the microclimatic conditions inside strongly depend on the outdoor weather.
The combination of local measurements of biological and physical parameters, benchmarking experiments under lab conditions in a large wind tunnel, numerical and statistical modelling, scenario consideration and the assessment of possible technical implementations –bridge the gap between different research areas in order to suggest a holistic optimization approach towards sustainable animal housing for selected regions in Europe.
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Collaboration
- Fellowship to advance my/our research
Financing for further research that will bring us to applications in every commercial farm.
Facilitating start-up companies with accelerators seed money and business guiding.
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- Research and Technology Organisations
- Academia/ Universities
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
Ready to “knowledge transfer”.
The mathematical model (an algorithm developed in this project) that links between the rumen temperature to body temperature is ready for implementation in software code by a commercial company.
Result submitted to Horizon Results Platform by MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT