Equine and Breeding Research

This Strategic Aim works to:

• Encourage the use of readily-accessible research to inform decisions in the equine world
• Develop our own research abstracts database to help people find available research, see BEFRED here
• Promote research opportunities and conferences
• Link equine academic establishments with the horse world at large, see AESE here
• Encourage young people, our BEFRED/Virginia Tech Internship Competition info is below
• More info? Contact Jan or visit BEFRED

BEF/Virginia Tech MAREC Internship
This is an annual opportunity for a student to take a three month summer internship at Virginia Tech in the USA. Applications for 2012 are now closed but to see a taster of what may be available for you in 2013 if you are a first or second year student during 2012, see the report from our 2011 winner here

Some BEF-sponsored research:

• The Demand for British bred horses