EQUIANFUN is an EU funded personal Marie Curie Individual Fellowship (building on the core skills base of Dr Joan E. Edwards) that broadens the current equine research portfolio of the Centre of Animal Nutrition: enabling the inter-relationships between gut microbiota and equine nutrition, health and welfare to be specifically explored. The project utilises internationally leading expertise and facilities at the Laboratory of Microbiology (MIB) at Wageningen University & Research (WUR, the Netherlands), the Animal Nutrition (ANU) group at WUR, the Nutrition Division and Equine Clinic of the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences at Utrecht University (UU, the Netherlands) and the Donkey Sanctuary (DS) (Sidmouth, UK). The multidisciplinary project team includes: Dr Joan E. Edwards (WU-MIB), Prof Hauke Smidt (WU-MIB), Dr Jan Dijkstra (WU-ANU), Dr Wilbert Pellikaan (WU-ANU), Dr David van Doorn (UU), Dr Henk Everts (UU) and Dr Faith Burden (DS).