AquaVET organises events and workshops to share progress, engage stakeholders, and disseminate results across partner regions.
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Dates: 23–27 February 2026
Host / Location: Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), Legnaro (PD), Italy
Format: Staff training (lectures + hands-on/practical components + field visit)
Programme overview (high-level)
Outputs: Training completion + participant feedback collection (achievement/feedback questionnaire)
Dates: 8–10 September 2025 (agenda timeframe indicated as 07–10/09/2025)
Host / Location: University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
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Participation (by institution)
Dates: 13–15 July 2025
Venue: AASTMT, El-Alamein Campus, Egypt
Format: Hybrid (on-site + online)
Purpose: Consortium alignment for the implementation phase, ensuring a shared understanding of WPs, deliverables, roles, and timelines.
Agenda at a glance
Key WP4 dissemination outcomes
During the WP4 session, partners reviewed dissemination strategy, website updates, and outreach planning and agreed:
Participation (by institution)
On 5 May 2026, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike (MOUAU), Nigeria, organized an information dissemination workshop on the AquaVET project. The workshop introduced the project, its objectives, and the opportunities it creates for capacity building, research, and postgraduate training in aquatic animal health and ecosystem health.
During the event, the MOUAU project coordinator, Dr. Chigozie S. Ukwueze, presented the main focus of AquaVET and emphasized that the project is an Erasmus+ capacity-building initiative designed to bridge the gap between aquaculture and veterinary medicine in Egypt and Nigeria. He also explained that the project promotes knowledge exchange in aquatic animals’ medicine and ecosystem health across the partner regions.
The workshop brought together a broad audience from the College of Veterinary Medicine, including fresh DVM graduates, final-year DVM students, academic staff, as well as the Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Prof. Cosmos C. Ogbu, and the Director of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Prof. Chikera S. Ibe.
A key focus of the workshop was the planned interdisciplinary Master’s programme in Aquatic Animals Medicine & Ecosystem Health (AQAMEH), which is being developed in Egypt and Nigeria as part of AquaVET. At MOUAU, the proposed programme is expected to begin in September 2026 within the 2026/2027 postgraduate academic session. It will be offered full time, with two-thirds coursework and a research project, using a hybrid format that combines physical and virtual lectures. The programme will run for 18 months, will be tuition free, and will be open to holders of the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree, in addition to other postgraduate admission requirements of MOUAU.
The workshop also highlighted the broader institutional benefits of AquaVET for MOUAU, particularly in the areas of capacity building, research, and infrastructural development in aquaculture. According to the presentation, equipment and instruments have already been approved to support the proposed master’s programme and to strengthen research and teaching in aquaculture production at the university.
In his remarks, Prof. Cosmas C. Ogbu, Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, commended the project coordinator and his team for sustaining the project since its inception and encouraged young veterinary graduates to take advantage of this new opportunity in a field that remains largely untapped in the region.
