BIOACTIVATE aims to improve the competitiveness and sustainability of livestock production by:

a) improved control of bacterial and parasitic gut infections, resulting in better animal welfare and higher economical returns (less morbidity/mortality),

b) better use of resources through the higher feed efficiency in uninfected animals and thus less nutrients leached to the environment,

c) promoting circular economy by re-using agro-industrial waste/by-products and adding value to low value products,

d) reduce “food-miles” by exploiting to the maximum local resources

e) reduce the use of costly, synthetic antibiotics and anthelmintics, and consequently less selection for drug resistance, reduced risk of chemical residues in food and in the environment and better acceptance by the consumers,

f) development of disease management practices that are more acceptable to society.