Invitation for Animal Welfare meeting

We would like to kindly invite you for a meeting dedicated to laboratory animal welfare and the 3Rs under directive 2010/63/EU.

The meeting will take place at IMG Prague on 28th August 2014.

Preliminary program:

10:35 Introduction
Jan Honetschläger (DVM, Head of the Animal Facility, Institute of Molecular Genetics)

10:40 Biosecurity
Gianpaolo Milite (DVM, Consultant Laboratory Animal Science)

11:00 2010/63/ EU and the ILAR guide
Javier Guillen (Senior Director and Director of European Activities of AAALAC)

11:20 Open discussion, Coffee break

12:00 The importance of education and training
Jan van der Valk (Vice-chairman of the European platform)

12:30 Revision of the FELASA accreditation scheme for education and training
Marcel Gyger (Member of the FELASA Accreditation Board for Education and Training)

13:00 FELASA health monitoring recommendations for rodents
Jan-Bas Prins (Head of the Central Animal Facility, Leiden University Medical Centre, Current President of FELASA)

13:30 The essential need for a Culture of care
Jan-Bas Prins

14:00 – 14:30 Open discussion

For registration please send email to Ms Ilona Dita (ilona.dita@img.cas.cz), latest to 20th August 2014.

Participation is free of charge!

Please be aware of the fact that we do not provide any visa assistance for prospective non-EU participants.