REWE Group’s Competence Centre for Agriculture has launched an interdisciplinary research project to evaluate how AI can monitor and improve livestock health and animal welfare. Key partners include academic and veterinary institutions, such as trafo:agrar (University of Vechta), the Free University of Berlin, the University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover Foundation, and the German Veterinary Association for Animal Welfare (TVT). The project aims to establish an interoperable data platform that measures tangible welfare outcomes, rather than basic regulatory compliance. Prof. Dr Thomas Blaha, a board member of the TVT, added, “This interdisciplinary approach allows for a sound assessment of what contribution AI can make to animal health. “If we succeed in detecting changes in animal behaviour earlier, we can react more quickly and take more targeted action.”