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ecopa offers a grant to attend the fifth edition of the Summer School on Non-Animal Approaches in Science The EURL ECVAM is organising the fifth edition of its Summer School on Non-Animal Approaches in Science. It will be from Monday 19 May 2025 until  Friday 23 May 2025, 15:16 (CEST) at the JRC in Ispra (Varese, […]

Eurotox 2024 | 8 – 11 September 2024 During Eurotox 2024 in Copenhagen, the board of ecopa was proud to assign the ecopa award to Weronika Marynowicz presenting the poster: “The mixture of PFAS may affect female reproductive health by causing disruption of mitochondrial function in ovarian granulosa cells”. The whole board wishes Weronika a […]

ESTIV 2024 | Prague | 3 – 6 June 2024 During ESTIV 2024 in Prague, the board of ecopa was proud to assign the ecopa award to Vito Vito D’Alessandro presenting the poster: “Development of a novel riboswitch-based cellular model of TDP-43 proteinopathy with a poster presentation titled “In vitro study of the effect of […]

Winner of the ecopa award at ESTIV 2022 During Eurotox 2023 in Ljubljana, Estonia, the board of ecopa was proud to assign the ecopa award to Martina Iulini with an oral presentation titled “In vitro study of the effect of PFAS on the antibody production”. Martina brilliantly presented her research results regarding the PFAS, an […]

Ecopa award for young scientists at EUROTOX 2023 ecopa, the European consensus-platform for alternatives, will grant an award to the best contribution of a young scientists presenting research on the 3Rs, and more specifically towards New Approach Methods (NAMs) without animal testing. The Board of ecopa will assign the Award to one applicant. The amount […]

Webinar: Phasing Out Animal Experiments– Options for a National Policy Non-animal, human-based technologies have developed impressively over the past decade. There is growing evidence that non-animal technologies can improve safety assessment and medical progress. Still, over 5 million animals are used for scientific purposes in Germany and around 22 million in the European Union. Several […]

Slide deck about 3Rs William Russell and Rex Burch developed the concept of the 3Rs during the 1950s, and described them in their book The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique (1959). Norecopa has published a comprehensive slide deck describing the principles and the history of the 3Rs: REPLACEMENT REDUCTION REFINEMENT The full presentation may be […]

Winner of the ecopa award at ESTIV 2022 During ESTIV 2022 in Sitges, Spain, the board of ecopa was proud to assign the ecopa award to Aude Rapet with an oral presentation titled “A breathing lung-on-chip model: an advanced in vitro tool for drug testing and toxicology”. Aude was very smart in introducing an interesting […]

JRC Summer School on Non-animal Approaches in Science EU Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing (EURL ECVAM) is organizing a summer school on Non-animal Approaches in Science. Participation is free of charge and addressed to students and young scientists with interest in non-animal approaches. 23rd May – 26th May 2023 Joint Reserach Centre (JRC) […]