EURCAW-Pigs provides:

Examples of training plans and materials used in different Member States in English, to the extent possible.
Quality standards, advice, templates, and technical support. These are provided in English so that they can be used by all EU member states. Training and education suggestions may include, for example, calibration between inspectors, seminars, lectures on new legislation, lectures on the biological basis of legislation, and communication workshops.
Training suggestions for improvement of communication skills and ways to support inspection-driven welfare improvement.

EURCAW-Pigs also supports the 'Better Training for Safer Food (BTSF)' training sessions on Animal Welfare. For an update on suspension of BTSF training sessions due to COVID-19, see BTSF website.

Standards for training

Quality standards, advice, templates, and technical support. EURCAW-pigs developed a preliminary set of recommendations for national training and specified learning outcomes for each of our eight prioritized welfare areas.

Minimum standards

Training on pig welfare in husbandry, transport and slaughter for inspectors: Recommendations for minimum standards and learning goals, EURCAW-Pigs; Authors: Anneberg, I., Sørensen, J.T., Overstreet, K., 2020

Training guides - In collaboration with national training bodies and national reference centers on animal welfare, training guides are developed for the different welfare topics as standards for national training in EU Member States.

Tail biting and tail docking, EURCAW-Pigs, 2021
Farrowing housing and management (including free farrowing), EURCAW-Pigs, 2022
Heat stress in pigs on farm (version 2.0; including cooling technologies), EURCAW-Pigs, 2023
Hunger induced stereotypies, EURCAW-Pigs, 2023
Group-housing and mixing of sows, EURCAW-Pigs, 2020
Alternatives sow stalls, EURCAW-Pigs, EURCAW-Pigs, 2023
Euthanasia of suckling piglets on farm, EURCAW-Pigs, 2022
Keeping entire male pigs, EURCAW-Pigs, 2023
Climate control and space allowance - transport of pigs, EURCAW-Pigs, 2020
Fitness for transport, EURCAW-Pigs, 2020
Transport of sows, EURCAW_pigs, 2023
Handling in lairage, EURCAW-Pigs, 2020
Pig stunning and bleeding, EURCAW-Pigs, 2021