Continuing education Laboratory Animal Science (LAS)
Each user institute, breeder or supplier shall ensure that the employed elementary and special caretakers, active participants, and trial leaders keep their knowledge up to date. This requirement also applies to persons responsible for the killing of laboratory animals.
In addition, proof of maintenance of knowledge must be shown when requested by the respective regional authorities responsible for Animal Welfare.
In this link you find continuing education principles in Flanders in more detail.
Below you find the offer of continuing education activities.
Event date
Titel
Type & location
Accredited & Target Audience*
* C (caretakers), AE (active experimenter), R (researcher or project leader), E (ethical committee), WO (welfare officers).
2024
16/04/2024
Workshop on severity assessment of animal experiments – Laboratory Animal Center KU Leuven
Workshop
Yes
AE, R, E, WO
6-7/03/2024
FSVO/UFAW Symposium: Humanely Ending the Life of Animals – FSVO/UFAW – Bern (Switserland)
Symposium
No
C, AE, R, E, WO
20/02/2024
Workshop on severity assessment of animal experiments – Laboratory Animal Center KU Leuven
Workshop
Yes
AE, R, E, WO
06-08/02/2024
Discovery to Innovation in Animal Health – Gent University/Provaxs/PDA – Ghent
Symposium
No
R
2023
14/12/2023
Workshop on severity assessment of animal experiments – Laboratory Animal Center KU Leuven
Workshop
Yes
AE, R, E, WO
05/12/2023 –
07/12/2023
Austrian 3R days ‘InN Motion’ –
Austrian 3R Center (A3RC), the RepRefRed Society, the MUI animalFree Research Cluster, the Cell Culture Days Graz and the ACTC (Advanced Cell and Tissue Culture)
Symposium
No
AE, R, E, WO
27/11/2023 –
30/11/2023
Assessment, prevention and alleviation of pain and distress in laboratory animals – RAT (Research Animal Training)
Workshop
Yes (de facto)
C, AE, R, E, WO
16-17/11/2023
Practical approaches and challenges for microbiological monitoring of rodents and zebrafish – Fondazione Guido Bernardini Milan
Course
Yes (de facto)
C, AE, E, WO
16/11/2023
Humane endpoints for fish in regulatory toxicology – RSPCA (Surrey – UK)
Workshop
Yes (de facto)
AE, R, E, WO
15/11/2023
EPAA Annual Conference 2023 – European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) (Brussels)
Conference
Yes (de facto)
AE, R, E, WO
9/11/2023
Workshop on severity assessment of animal experiments – KU Leuven Laboratory AnimalCente
Workshop
Yes
AE, R, E, WO
19/10/2023
Workshop kennis delen tussen biotechnici uit Nederland en België – Medewerkers Radboud UMC – Nijmegen (Nederland)
Workshop
No
C, AE
17/10/2023 –
19/10/2023
Anaesthesia and perioperative care of laboratory rodents and rabbits – RAT (Research Animal Training)
Workshop
Yes (de facto)
AE, R, E, WO
12/10/2023 –
13/10/2023
Symposium
Yes (de facto)
AE, R, E, WO
6/10/2023
The small camelid (llama and alpaca) as an intriguing animal for science and biotechnology. Animal care and handling. – University of Antwerp and Lamasté – Campus de drie eiken (Wilrijk)
Workshop
Yes
C, AE, R, WO
04/10/2023 –
05/10/2023
Key aspects to design an environmental enrichment program for lab rodents – Fondazione Guido Bernardini
Course (online)
Yes (de facto)
AE, R, E, WO
29/09/2023
NKI Animal Facility Symposium: In vivo translation and collaboration – NKI Animal Facility, Mouse Cancer Clinic and Mouse Model Facility – Amsterdam, NL
Symposium
No
AE, R, E, WO
29/09/2023, 06/10/2023 and 13/10/2023
Intensive course on experimental design and biostatistics – Fondazione Guido Bernardini
Course (online)
Yes (de facto)
AE, R, E, WO
22/09/2023
Swine as translational research models – Karolinska Institutet
Webinar
Yes (de facto)
AE, R, E, WO
19/09/2023 –
21/09/2023
Joint 3R Symposium 2023 ‘Emerging fields in 3Rs’ – Innovation Centre 3Rs (IC-3Rs), RE-Place and the EU-TWINALT consortium
Symposium
Yes
AE, R, E, WO
27/08/2023 –
31/08/2023
World Congress on Alternative Methods – 2023 –Canadian Centre for Alternatives to Animal Methods, live congress in Canada Niagra Falls
Congress
Yes (de facto)
R, E, WO
21/08/2023 –
08/09/2023
Summerschool Function B Course – University of Antwerp
Summerschool
Yes (de facto)
AE, R, E
21/08/2023
3R workshop: Advances in alternative non-animal methods and policies – FIN3R
Seminar (online)
No
AE, R, E, WO
17/08/2023
Reducing animals in research – The Swedish 3Rs Center
Online webinar
No
AE, R, E, WO
28/06/2023 –
30/06/2023
ESLAV 3 days live courses, Tallinn (Estonia) – ESLAV
Summerschool
Yes (de facto)
vet
26/06/2023 –
27/06/2023
ESLAV-ECLAM Annual meeting 2 days symposium Tallinn (Estonia)
Symposium
Yes (de facto)
vet
22/06/2023
How the pharmaceutical industry is working to avoid and replace the use of animals for scientific purposes – RSPCA/EFPIA
Webinar
Yes (de facto)
C, AE, R, E, WO
19/06/2023 –
23/06/2023
Assessment, prevention and alleviation of pain and distress in laboratory animals – RAT (Research Animal Training)
Workshop
Yes (de facto)
C, AE, R, E, WO
07/06/2023 –
09/06/2023
47th AFSTAL Colloquium: “La chirurgie de A à Z” , Bordeaux (France) -AFSTAL
Symposium
Yes (de facto)
AE, R, E, WO
29/05/2023
1st Central-East European Laboratory Animal Science Congress (CELASC) – Central-East European FELASA member associations
Congress
Yes (de facto)
C, AE, R, E, WO
15 & 16/05/2023
Symposium
05/05/2023
Optimizing animal model selection for human translation: the animal model quality assessment – Karolinska Institutet
Webinar
No
AE, R, E, WO
25/04/2023
Biologically Relevant Models to Advance your Research, Antwerp – PROMEGA
Symposium
No
R
25/04/2023 –
27/07/2023
Anaesthesia and perioperative care of laboratory rodents and rabbits – RAT (Research Animal Training)
workshop
Yes (de facto)
AE, R, E, WO
17/04/2023
Re-evaluating the need for chronic toxicity studies with therapeutic monoclonal antibodies: weight of evidence and further 3Rs approaches – NC3Rs – EPAA
Webinar
Yes (de facto)
R, E, WO
31/03/2023
Clicker training as a refinement for mice – Karolinska Institutet
Webinar
No
AE, R, E, WO
28/03/2023
Simple Tips to Significantly Improve Rodent Surgical Outcomes – EALAS
Webinar
No
2022
27/09/2022
Webinar
21/09/2022
‘More Science, More Care, Less animals’
26/04/2022
Experimental design: the most common mistakes and how to avoid them
16/02/2022
Dier: welzijn, recht en ethiek les 1,2, 3 en 6