The Knowledge Exchange Platform (KEP) is a unique platform for cooperation and collaboration with representatives of stakeholders from outside the project (knowledge institutes, pig and chicken breeding and feed industry, pig and poultry producers, animal welfare groups, consumer associations, policy makers) which express a stake or view at a certain moment of the project and are willing to share these with the project partners during stakeholders meetings and consultations. It also integrates the members of the Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB). The KEP serves as the key forum for stakeholders to interact with the project and thus ensure that the full diversity of relevant stakeholders’ perspectives, demands, concerns and needs is captured and integrated in the entire work cycle of GENE-SWitCH with the aim of enhancing its value and impact. The KEP will also maximise the flow of information to and from the project to enhance knowledge transfer and effective and timely uptake of GENE-SWitCH outcomes.  The KEP will be to: 

• Ensure that views and needs of the experts and practitioners are included/taken into account in terms of knowledge, technology development and services throughout the project and thus, guarantee an effective two-way communication, 
• Assist to disseminate the results generated by the research effort. ​