Recent Outcomes
Joined IMPROVE - LIFT - AFFECT EVO COST Actions Webinar Series: Advancing Animal Welfare in Research
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Laura Webb on animal happiness - understanding and assessment through behaviour, cognition and physiology
Training School: Teaching the 3Rs – Train the Trainers
The IMPROVE COST Action (CA21139) successfully hosted its first Training School at i3S – Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde
Joined IMPROVE - LIFT - AFFECT EVO COST Actions Webinar Series: Advancing Animal Welfare in Research
Prof. Georgia Mason on proxy measures for animal feelings - how to validate indicators of affective state or cumulative affective experience
Publication: The Istanbul Workshop organised by the ‘IMPROVE’ COST Action Ethics Crossover Group
Fifth publication, the manuscript is based directly on the action work and summarizes the Istanbul Workshop (Sept. 2024) of the X-over ethics group.
STSM at Karolinska Institute - Report from Sónia Siquenique
Report about the STSM stay of Sónia Siquenique at Karolinska Insitute, Sweden from 1.4.-30.5.2025
Poster "Mapping the Educational 3Rs Activities by Developing a Database of Training Programs in Europe" at FELASA conference in Athens
Poster from B. Sevastre and N. Kostomitsopoulos at the 16th FELASA conference in Athens, 2-5. June 2025
Poster "IMP3ROVE Animal Research" at the FELASA conference in Athens
Poster from M. Kitsara, A. Ahluwalia, N. Kostomitsopoulos and W. Neuhaus at the 16th FELASA conference in Athens, 2-5. June 2025
Talk: "I am not sure I want to do this…: students’ emotional perspective on animal experiments" at FELASA conference in Athens
Talk from Augusto Vitale at the 16th FELASA conference in Athens, 4. June 2025
Session “Do I have a choice? Reconciling personal and professional ethics in laboratory animal science training" at FELASA conference in Athens
Session at the 16th FELASA conference in Athens, 4. June 2025, organized by Anna Olsson and Augusto Vitale
Talk: "The role of technicians in qualitative assessment of animal welfare and the subjective experience" at FELASA conference in Athens
Talk from Augusto Vitale at the 16th FELASA conference in Athens, 3. June 2025
SkillUp Tech session “A Win-Win Situation for Research Quality and Work Satisfaction: More Involvement of Animal Care Staff" at FELASA conference in Athens
Session at the 16th FELASA conference in Athens, 2-5. June 2025, chaired by Fernando Gonzalez Uarquin and Paulin Jirkof.
Poster "Do we really communicate ? Improving Communication among Stakeholders in Animal Research" at FELASA conference in Athens
Poster from Ö.S. Cevik, R. Kaura, S. Schober and F. Gonzalez-Uarquin at the 16th FELASA conference in Athens, 2-5. June 2025
Poster "Integrating Animal Care Staff and Laboratory Technicians in Research: Researchers' Perspective" at the FELASA conference in Athens
Poster from R. Kaura, B. Riso, S. Schober and F. Gonzalez-Uarquin at the 16th FELASA conference in Athens, 2-5. June 2025
IMPROVE - Working group meeting WG 3 and Management committee meeting
Meeting of working group 3 in Athens, Greece. Organized by members of the COST Action in Athens. Hybrid meeting with about 60 participants.
Workshop "How Can a Preclinical CRO Align with 3Rs" by BIOEMTECH
Workshop "How Can a Preclinical CRO Align with 3Rs" by BIOEMTECH in Athens, Greece, 29.5.2025
Joined IMPROVE - LIFT - AFFECT EVO COST Actions Webinar Series: Advancing Animal Welfare in Research
Dr. Tom Smulders on adult hippocampal neurogenesis as a valence marker
Talk: "The rise of 3R centres in Europe and their role in the development of the field of 3Rs"
Talk of W. Neuhaus at the 18th Norecopa's Annual Meeting, 20.5.2025
"Ethics, Animal Research and One Health: Fostering Awareness and Career Development through 3R Principles and Animal Welfare"
On May 15, 2025, Prof. Dr. Yesim Isil Ulman gave the online webinar "Ethics, Animal Research and One Health: Fostering Awareness and Career Development through 3R Principles and Animal Welfare," hosted by the Young Researchers and Innovators (YRI) and the mentorship committees and moderated by Anil Can