Forsøksdyrkomitéen invites the animal welfare bodies to a seminar. Theme: Local work on reduction and workshop on the Veterinary Institute's report/3R centre
Seminar for DVE
We invite you to a day of professional input and engaging discussions.
We are repeating our success and once again holding an in-person seminar, where those of you who work in the animal welfare bodies can meet and exchange experiences, opinions and ideas, and also establish points of contact for cooperation between the animal welfare bodies. As we are serving lunch, we need to know how many people are coming, hence the registration.
Place: Best Western Plus Oslo Airport, Ravinevegen 11, 2060 Gardermoen
Time: Thursday 19 November, 10:00 to 16:00
Registration deadline: 8 November – send your registration to: [email protected]
Please state any allergies or food intolerances and which species you work with.
Forsøksdyrkomitéen would like to get to know everyone who sits on the animal welfare bodies, so if your department sent its PMSK to this seminar last year and you are only able to send one person, please consider whether you can send one of the other people in the animal welfare body this time. But several people from the same animal welfare body (DVE) are of course welcome.
At the 2024 seminar we focused on Refinement, and in 2025 on Replacement. The theme of this year’s seminar is Reduction. We would like to hold discussion groups for those who work with fish, rodents, wild animals, production animals and companion animals. If you are interested in taking part in such a discussion group, please state which (main) species you work with. Each group discussion will start with a short talk presenting a local project working on reduction. Please get in touch if you, or someone you know, have an interesting project you would like to present.
The Norwegian Veterinary Institute (VI) has been commissioned to produce a “knowledge summary on the work on reduction, refinement and replacement of animal experiments (3R)”, so after lunch we will hold a workshop where all the groups discuss this topic. We would like those attending the seminar to have a short talk with colleagues and researchers in their department before the seminar and to gather ideas and thoughts as contributions to this workshop.
Information about the knowledge summary: https://www.regjeringen.no/contentassets/0ccc494c68114861b39a69db8cd7f5ce/statsbudsjettet-2026-supplerende-tildelingsbrev-kunnskapsoppsummering-om-alternativer-til-dyreforsok-og-arbeid-med-3r-2.pdf
Information about the new 3R centre: https://www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/regjeringen-etablerer-et-nasjonalt-3r-senter-under-mattilsynet/id3156519/
On behalf of the committee, chair Kristine Hansen, Kristine Gismervik, Nina Sandlund, Kathrine A. Ryeng, Anton Krag, Gro Flatekval, Rolf-Arne Ølberg and Andrew M. Janczak look forward to welcoming you to this seminar.
We would like as many establishments that use research animals as possible to take part in our seminars, and we remind you that the regulation states that all personnel must maintain their knowledge, so we suggest that this seminar can be used for that purpose.
The seminar is free of charge and includes lunch!
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