On the occasion of the COST and Joint Research Centre (JRC) seminar held last June, Prof. Dolores Gavier-Widén, former Action Chair of COST Action “Understanding and combating African Swine Fever in Europe (ASF-STOP)”, explains how policy impact was achieved by her Action. The ultimate objective of the ASF-STOP network is to improve knowledge of the African Swine Fever, a viral haemorrhagic fever of domestic pigs and wild boars in Europe.