Projects

Chair of the Organizational Part
RNDr. Ľubor Košťál, CSc.

International

Current
  • European Partnership on Animal Health and Welfare
    Program: Horizon Europe
    Duration: 1. 1. 2024 – 31. 12. 2026
  • Lifting farm animal lives – laying the foundations for positive animal welfare
    Program: COST
    Duration: 4. 11. 2022 – 3. 11. 2026
Finished
  • Identifying causes and solutions of keel bone damage in laying hens
    Program: COST
    Duration: 18. 10. 2016 – 17. 10. 2020
  • Synergy for preventing damaging behaviour in group housed pigs and chickens
    Program: COST
    Duration: 2. 3. 2016 – 1. 3. 2020
  • Animal WelfAre Research in enlarged Europe
    Program: FP7
    Duration: 1. 3. 2011 – 28. 2. 2014
  • Coordinated European Welfare Network
    Program: Multilateral - other
    Duration: 31. 12. 2012 – 31. 12. 2013
  • Measuring and Monitoring of Farm Animal Welfare
    Program: COST
    Duration: 1. 10. 2000 – 31. 3. 2006
  • Behavior and its underlying physiological mechanisms related to reproduction and welfare problems in parent stock of meat type chickens
    Program: Inter-governmental agreement
    Duration: 1. 6. 2002 – 31. 3. 2006

National

Current
  • Identification of behavioural and neurobiological indicators of positive poultry welfare
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2023 – 31. 12. 2026
  • Infrared thermography as a tool for the study of emotions and animal welfare
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2023 – 31. 12. 2026
  • Examining the role of dopamine and adult neurogenesis in learned behavior of songbirds using optogenetic manipulation
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 7. 2021 – 30. 6. 2025
Finished
  • Behavioural and physiological indicators of poultry welfare
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 8. 2018 – 31. 12. 2022
  • Keel bone damage – causes and consequences for laying hens welfare, health and production
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2019 – 31. 12. 2022
  • Behavioural disturbances in poultry – influence of mother presence and definition of individual phenotypes susceptible to its development
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2019 – 31. 12. 2022
  • Damaging behaviour and the welfare of laying hens
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2017 – 31. 12. 2020
  • Learning and neuronal plasticity in songbirds
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 7. 2016 – 30. 6. 2020
  • Regeneration of specific brain regions of adult songbirds studied by in vivo magnetic resonance
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2014 – 31. 12. 2017
  • Emotions, cognition and poultry welfare
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2014 – 31. 12. 2016
  • Epigenetic, physiological and neurobehavioural aspects of poultry welfare
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 5. 2011 – 30. 4. 2014
  • Natural brain reward system, its dopaminergic mechanisms and poultry welfare
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2011 – 31. 12. 2013
  • The role of dopaminergic system in neurogenesis and brain regeneration in birds
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2010 – 31. 12. 2012
  • Biomembranes: Membrane structure and dynamics in relation to cell functions
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 7. 2008 – 31. 10. 2011
  • Monitoring of poultry welfare using behavioural and radiotelemetric methods
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2008 – 31. 12. 2010
  • Neurobiological control mechanisms of the feather pecking in laying hens
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2008 – 31. 12. 2010
  • Neurobiology of vocal communication in birds
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2007 – 31. 12. 2009
  • Transgeneration transfer of hormones and subsequent control mechanisms
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2007 – 31. 12. 2009
  • BIOMEMBRANES: cross-sectional educational program for graduate students and young scientists in life sciences
    Program:
    Duration: 1. 2. 2006 – 31. 10. 2008
  • Education and support of postdoctoral students – young researchers in field of material engineering science, chemical science and molecular biology and genetics, including biotechnologies
    Program:
    Duration: 1. 7. 2007 – 30. 9. 2008
  • Current trends in physiological and behavioural research – higher effectiveness of doctoral studies by widening the practical skills
    Program:
    Duration: 1. 11. 2006 – 31. 7. 2008
  • Molecular genetic principles of membrane bound processes in normal and pathological animal physiology
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 2. 2005 – 31. 12. 2007
  • Behavioural physiology of poultry related to production traits and welfare
    Program: VEGA
    Duration: 1. 1. 2005 – 1. 12. 2007
  • Membrane-associated processes and their role in normal and pathological physiology of farm animals and their symbiotic microorganisms
    Program: SRDA
    Duration: 1. 10. 2002 – 31. 12. 2005
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