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    National Veterinary Institute (SVA)

    2. Where is it located (include both address and geographical location)?

    Ulls väg 2B, SE-751 89, UPPSALA, Sweden
    3. Floor area of laboratory areas by containment level
    BL 3 , 457.00 SqM
    Summary of the different BL3 lab 1 and 2: 218 (sqM), BL3 lab 4 72 (sqM), High inf. Lab: 58,3 (sqM), EHEC lab: 36,6 (sqM), TSE-lab 72 (sqM). A glovebox is also installed in one of the BL3 labs
    BL 2 , 10.000.00 SqM
    Total laboratory floor area (SqM): 
    10457

    4. The organizational structure of each facility

    Personnel
    (i) Total number of personnel: 
    367

    (ii) Division of personnel

    Military
    N/A
    Civilian: 
    367

    (iii) Division of personnel by category

    Scientists: 
    78
    Engineers: 
    89 (veterinarians)
    Technicians: 
    66
    Administrative and support staff: 
    134
    (iv) List the scientific disciplines represented in the scientific/engineering staff

    Bacteriology, Epidemiology, Feed, Immunobiology, Parasitology, Pathology, Pharmacology, Statistics, Toxicology, and Virology.

    All within the veterinary medicine area

    (v) Are contractor staff working in the facility? If so, provide an approximate number.
    No
    Funding
    (vi) What is (are) the source(s) of funding for the work conducted in the facility, including indication if activity is wholly or partly financed by the Ministry of Defence?

    The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency is the main funding provider. However, since 2015 SVA has had a new mission concerning planning for civil defence. SVA has had partial funding from the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation. SVA obtained 7,8 MSEK for 2020 from the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency for crisis management applications and 22 MSEK for 2020 from the Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation for civil defence applications.

    (vii) What are the funding levels for the following programme areas:

    Research: 
    50%
    Development: 
    50%
    Test and evaluation: 
    0
    (viii) Briefly describe the publication policy of the facility

    Policies and press releases are coordinated by the department of communication. Submitting scientific publications or accepting invitations to give oral presentations in case there is a security concern are discussed internally.

    (ix) Provide a list of publicly-available papers and reports resulting from the work published during the previous 12 months. (To include authors, titles and full references)

    The latest scientific publications from SVA can be found at:

    http://www.sva.se/forskning-och-utveckling/vetenskapliga-publikationer

    Notes
    N/A
    Attachments
    N/A
    5. Briefly describe the biological defence work carried out at the facility, including type(s) of micro-organisms(9) and/or toxins studied, as well as outdoor studies of biological aerosols.

    On-going biological research projects at SVA during 2020 can be found at:

    http://www.sva.se/en/Research/Researches/

    During 2020 SVA has continued civil-military collaboration within the Swedish Forum for Biopreparedness Diagnostics (FBD). The forum consists of four agencies; The Public Health Agency of Sweden, the National Food Agency, the Swedish Defence Research Agency and the National Veterinary Institute (SVA). These organization made the pilot study and the exercise together with the Swedish Armed Forces.

     

    (9) Including viruses and prions.

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