Federation of Veterinarians of Europe

but I become president next summer and there'll be a lot more responsibility on that end.

But so far on the executive, I've been the representative for the CVMA to the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe.

So I go over to their meetings and it has been very interesting because we have a very close relationship with the AVMA for obvious reasons.

And when we work with them or attend their meetings, it makes us feel very small because it is a much larger organization with a lot more resources.

with huge opportunities to work in in other countries and of course disease knows no borders and neither does the likes of ai regulation of which we're grappling with at the moment so there's lots of global challenges for us and so working with similar organizations in other countries it brings real benefits to our members and registrants to animal health and welfare and public health and also to us as people operating this space to be able to share build networks, horizons, account for challenges, and work together on how we might tackle those.

And so we do that through being members, I mean, in addition to kind of informal networks, we're members of organizations such as the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe and the International Veterinary Regulators Network.

And then we also have some very specific collaborations on particular areas, and one of those is the Mind Matters International Project.

So as I said at the start, we set up Mind Matters quite some time ago now, and we celebrated our 10th anniversary quite recently.