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• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctica
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integrated skills. In addition to technical expertise in the disease or topic itself, each twinning project addresses quality assurance, biosafety and biosecurity, animal welfare, responsible science and ethics. OIE Twinning is sustainable because it acts as a catalyst to improve expertise; it does not build a dependency on aid. Twinning is proving to be a low cost, high impact programme; this means that donor funds can go further and have a longer term impact. Thanks to OIE Twinning, more veterinary experts around the world are talking to one another, more countries are engaged with the international scientific community, and the OIE is filling gaps in its global network of Reference Centres. Entering its 8th year OIE Laboratory Twinning is demonstrating its importance as a robust and effective platform for sustainable capacity building and networking. With at least 60 projects – addressing more than 30 topics and diseases – on all continents (apart from Antarctica) OIE Twinning is the most popular and comprehensive laboratory capacity building programme of its kind. Twinning continues to bear fruit – so far, 50 % of Candidate Laboratories that have completed a Twinning project have applied to become an OIE Reference Centre, resulting in four new OIE Reference Laboratories and one new OIE Collaborating Centre. The nature of Twinning means that it is a vehicle for delivering a whole range of