National Round Tables

Ten National Round Tables (NRT) are organised at regional level in the following SMARTER countries: Uruguay, Switzerland, UK, Spain, France, Italy, Ireland, Hungary, Greece, and Norway. The purpose is to reach all relevant stakeholders within each country (end-users, sheep and goat farmers, breeding, (inter)-professional organizations, training people, wide society) to the same table for presenting and discussing the achievements of the Project.

The structure of each NRT is common and flexible according to the specific interest of each countries (traits-oriented, evaluation–oriented, breeding objective-oriented). The aim being to present and discuss objectives, practical results for end-users, way of disseminate. A survey is foreseen for getting feedbacks from the participants, in order to improve the replies of the different questionnaires set up during the project. All the collected feedbacks, ideas, suggestions in the various NRT will be collated into a final document that facilitate the application of the achievements of the SMARTER.