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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News and highlights
- New: NAMS Designathon Challenge: call for submissions
- 3Rs student grants 2023: call for submissions
- NC3RS/EPAA webinar on chronic toxicity studies
- Refinement Prize 2023: call for submissions
- EPAA Partners Forum on Exposure Considerations in Human Safety Assessment Part II – flash report
- Leaflet: 15 years of public-private partnership: EPAA achievements
- List of all EPAA publications
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.
See the 2011-2015 (37 kB) and 2016-2020 (89 kB) action programmes as well as the founding act of EPAA (3Rs Declaration) (85 kB).
The new 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)
Previous annual conferences
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