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European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing

Project platform
EPAA project platform mandate and governance, ongoing projects, and completed projects.
Awards and grants
Winners of the Refinement Prize, the 3Rs Science Prize and 3Rs student grants.
Annual conference
Information and reports from the European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing annual conferences.
Activities and events
EPAA events, partners' forum, collaboration for training in non-animal methods in China, and alternative methods video tutorials.

The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) aims to replace animal testing by innovative, non-animal testing methods/New Approach Methodologies (NAMs), to reduce the number of animals used and to refine procedures where no alternatives exist, or are not sufficient to ensure the safety of substances (the '3R principle').

The partners are pooling knowledge and resources to accelerate the development, validation and acceptance of alternative approaches at national, European and global levels.

The EPAA seeks to bridge the knowledge gap and to facilitate coordination and cooperation via its partners and project platform.

It promotes the results via its various European and international activities and events, its annual conference and via its awards and grants that are particularly addressed to young scientists.

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About the EPAA

History and rationale

Launched in November 2005 with the support of European Commissioners Verheugen and Potocnik, the EPAA began operations in 2006. It completed a first mandate of 5 years by the end of 2010.

Due to the encouraging results of the EPAA's projects, the mandate has been renewed for 5-year terms since.

The EPAA action programme 2021-2025 (92 kB) focuses on facilitating regulatory acceptance.

Vision

The vision of EPAA is the replacement, reduction and refinement (3Rs) of animal use for meeting regulatory requirements through better and more predictive science.

The EPAA vision and mission paper (340 kB)

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Disclaimer: This webpage contains information on past events, such as agendas of annual meetings or workshops, which may contain the names of speakers. If your name is mentioned and you would like us to remove it, please contact GROW-EPAAatec [dot] europa [dot] eu (GROW-EPAA[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu).