Improving animal welfare during transport and slaughter
New e-learning tool "eSchulTS ²" in six languages
All employees of transport companies and slaughterhouses who handle live pigs or cattle must have certificates of competence or expertise for handling live animals based on the corresponding requirements of EU law. Regular training is recommended in order to continuously improve animal welfare (e.g. EFSA 2020).
This is now easily possible with the multilingual and free e-learning "eSchulTS ²"!
The online training course was created as part of a joint project. It consists of several modules with little text and many videos and is therefore aimed at employees with little knowledge of German and different cultural backgrounds at animal transport companies and slaughterhouses. Another target group are the animal welfare officers working at the slaughterhouse.
The modules are available in German, Romanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Hungarian and English and are to be understood as additional animal welfare training in the sense of a standard work.
Certificates of attendance can be issued and printed out as proof of training.
Funding information:
The working group Meat Hygiene of the Institute for Food Safety and Hygiene, the Institute for Animal Welfare, Animal Behaviour and Laboratory Animal Science, the Institute for Veterinary Epidemiology and Biometry, and the Department of Educational Science, Freie Universität Berlin, are involved in this joint project. The external industrial partner is Tönnies Holding ApS & Co KG. The project was funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (funding reference: 2817806A18).