Supplementary materials 3 - Webpages database

Curated output of the COST action BETTER Task 4.3 survey work‑stream.
This workbook contains records that the Working Group 4 (WG4) team manually harmonised, cleaned and enriched during and after the Ghen (Belgium) workshop (8 Feb 2024). It is ready for cataloguing, analytics or web display.

1. Workbook layout
• training_projects 89 rows × 22 fields – each row = one biosecurity or herd‑health management course.
• webpages 65 rows × 21 fields – web resources that offer stand‑alone biosecurity information or e‑learning.
• Clarifications 34 text rows – definitions and coding rules applied when populating the two tables (e.g. what counts as “training”, how to mark quality control, etc.).

2. Key fields (training_projects)
Title │ Provider │ Language │ Target animal species │ Topic (pure biosecurity vs. broader) │ Delivery mode (F2F / online / hybrid) │ Training tools (lectures, simulation, tests…) │ Duration │ Audience category (farmers, vets, students…) │ Level (basic / advanced) │ Cost (free / fee) │ Award (certificate, ECTS, micro‑badge) │ Application window │ Keywords │ Current status │ Website │ Evaluation type │ Quality‑control mechanism.

3. Key fields (webpages)
URL │ Language │ Free/paid (+cost) │ Species focus │ Content format (factsheets, videos, guidelines…) │ One‑health scope │ Downloadable material │ Offline usability │ Type of biosecurity information (farm, transport, both).

3. What the numbers mean
89 courses span 25‑plus providers in Europe and beyond; ~60 % are still active. English is the dominant training language, but 13 other languages appear. Roughly half the courses are free; fees, where given, range from €15 to €2 400....
The 65 webpages complement formal courses with self‑paced resources; almost all are free, yet only 15 % allow offline use. Species coverage is skewed towards cattle, pigs and poultry; aquaculture and small ruminants are under‑represented.

4. How to reuse the file
Join tables – the URL in training_projects lets you match with detailed metadata in webpages when a course and its site share the same link.
Filter – all categorical answers are already normalised (yes/no, basic/advanced, etc.), so no heavy cleaning is needed.
Mapping – pivot by country, language or species to visualise gaps in regional coverage.
Quality lens – the “evaluation” and “quality control” fields permit screening for evidence‑based versus ad‑hoc trainings.

5. Caveats
• Not exhaustive: entries reflect material found or provided by survey respondents.
• Dates and costs were not always verifiable; use the website links for confirmation.

6. Relation to translations
Each record may originate from one of the seven survey languages (English, Albanian, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Turkish). All data have been translated into English for consistency, but course titles remain in the original language where that is the official name.