Tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in animal farming and its impact on public health is a key priority for EFSA and other public health authorities in Europe. This study is a contribution to the joint effort by EFSA and EU member state authorities to address the issue. Focusing on the EU farming sector, it documents perceptions of the risks of AMR, associated behaviours, and the reasons and rationales behind them. Consumers, veterinarians and (pig and poultry) farmers in a sample of European countries were surveyed using a combination of methods (online survey, semi-structured interviews). The evidence gathered can inform communication strategies at national and EU level to increase awareness where these are designed to inform risk perception and change behaviours in relation to the use of antibiotics in animal farming and antibiotics' impact on human health. © ICF, 2017

Narratives play an important role in education, both as a genre which is used to test language proficiency and as a way of transmitting educational context. Therefore, it is important to have a clear idea of how children approach narrative tasks. In this study, we focused on children between 8 and 10 years of age. We investigated whether children with a Flemish background told stories in a different way from children with a non‐Western background. Second, we looked into the way both groups of children adapted their stories to the assumed knowledgeableness, i.e. the communal common ground (Clark 1996) they attributed to their audience. Our study shows that children with a non‐Western background did not differ greatly from children with a Flemish background in the way they told stories to an adult, but that significant differences could be found in the way they adapted their stories to a peer listener. Whereas children with a Flemish background elaborated more when telling to a peer, children with a non‐Western background showed no significant adaptations. We briefly discuss some of the implications of this finding for education.