This session will combine all four Working Groups, offering an opportunity for cross-collaboration across the network.
- Date: June 30th 2026
- Time: 2:00–5:00 PM CEST
- Who: All Working Groups (WG1, WG2, WG3, & WG4)
- Where: Click here to join the meeting
Rather than giving a comprehensive overview of all that is going on, each WG has selected one or two speakers to go in a bit more depth about one of the things going on in that working group. We will also allow some time for questions and discussion.
The programme is as follows (all times in Central European Summer Time):
14:00 Welcome (Tom Smulders, Action Chair, UK)
14:05 WG1: Laszlo Garamszegi (Hungary): “What kinds of questions does a phylogenetic approach to affective states allow us to ask?”
14:35 Questions and Discussion
14:45 WG2: Alina Rusu (Romania): “Integrating Animal Affective States into Education and Animal-Assisted Education Training: A Survey Framework for Affect-Evo Members”
15:15 Questions and Discussion
15:25 Break
15:35 WG3: Colline Poirier (UK): “Validity criteria for indicators of affective states at the individual level”
15:50 Questions and Discussion
15:55 WG3: Murat Dogusan (Turkiye): “Valid indicators of pain in ruminants”
16:10 Questions and Discussion
16:15 WG4: Gunes Unal (Turkiye): “An overview of the activities of Working Group 4, Improving treatments of affective problems across species”
16:45 Questions and Discussion
16:55 Conclusion of the Symposium
