We
bring to your attention our new webinars, advice on refinement of blood
sampling procedures in laboratory animals, useful 3Rs resources and a selection
of 3Rs summers schools and events.
Webinar on furnishings and enrichment for
laboratory animals
The Swedish 3Rs
Center invites you to take part in a webinar on furnishings and enrichment for
laboratory animals.
The webinar will be
held on June 18 at 12.00‑13.00 CEST.
Elin
Weber, researcher at the
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, and Lars Bräutigam,
Director of the Zebrafish Core Facility at Karolinska Institutet, will tell you
about furnishings and enrichment for mice and zebrafish kept at
research facilities.
Katarina
Cvek, member of the Swedish National Committee
for the Protection of Animals used for Scientific Purposes, will also give a
brief presentation of a statement on furnishings and enrichment that the
National Committee published earlier this year.
Webinar for the Regional Animal Ethics
Committees
On Wednesday,
August 20, at 17:00 to 18:30 CEST the Swedish 3Rs Center and the
Laboratory Animal Team at the Swedish Board of Agriculture will be hosting a
webinar specifically directed to the Swedish Regional Animal Ethics Committees.
The webinar will
cover the ethology of species that are often used as laboratory animals with a
special focus on mice, rats, rabbits and zebrafish. Elin Weber, Swedish
University of Agricultural Sciences, and Svante Winberg, Uppsala
University, will highlight ways to meet the animals’ needs and increase their
welfare when kept at laboratory animal facilities.
Everyone
working in a Swedish Regional Animal Ethics Committee is welcome!
The 3R Center is currently working on a
project where we produce advice on how to refine common experimental procedures. Our first advice in this
series is about blood sampling, which is one of the most common procedures
performed on experimental animals.
To
increase animal welfare when taking blood samples and to ensure that research
results are of good quality,
you need to choose an appropriate sampling method and perform the procedure
correctly.
Our report provides information that can
help you in your choice of method. The material is aimed at
researchers, animal welfare agencies and regional animal ethics committees in
the work of developing and evaluating applications for ethical approval of
animal experiments. Those who work practically
with laboratory animals may also find the material useful.
The material is currently available in Swedish only.
National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs) is launching a webinar series on evidence-based welfare refinements for laboratory animals.
For the yearly meeting for Swedish Animal Welfare Bodies
This year, the meeting will take place on October 8 as an in-person meeting in Stockholm.
During the day we will put focus on refinement of animal experimentation with specific focus on enrichment and refinement of common experimental procedures.
Emma Robinson, professor at University of Bristol and programme creator of the 3Hs initiative will lecture.
Call for submissions for EPAA’s Refinement Prize 2025
The €6000 prize will be granted to a laboratory technician, animal caretaker or technologist who has demonstrated outstanding achievements in new, novel approaches to advance the implementation and/or awareness raising of refinement of animal testing.
Applications should be sent to GROW-EPAA@ec.europa.eu by Monday 1 September 2025.
The Swedish 3Rs Center is the executive body of the National Committee
for the Protection of Animals used for Scientific Purposes and part of the
Swedish Board of Agriculture.
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