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Dear signers, friends and supporters, the Basel Declaration has a new home. After a successful decade as Basel Declaration Society, our organization has transformed into Animal Research Tomorrow. As such, we promote openness and fact-based scientific arguments in the international public debate on the necessity and value of animal research for both human and animal health and welfare. For more information please visit our new webpage under animalresearchtomorrow.org
Like the Helsinki Declaration, which forever altered the ethical landscape of human clinical research, the aim of the Basel Declaration is to bring the scientific community together to further advance the implementation of ethical principles such as the 3Rs whenever animals are being used and to call for more trust, transparency and communication on the sensitive topic of animals in research. The Basel Declaration Society, founded on October 5th. 2011, strive to promote the Basel Declaration.
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Pathway to more Transparency in Animal Research
Scientific Program Committee
Prof. Adriano Aguzzi (University Hospital, Zurich)
Prof. Gerhard Heldmaier (University Marburg)
Prof. Paul Herrling (Novartis, Board member ETH Zurich and University Basel)
Dr. Mark Matfield, European Biomedical Research Association (EBRA)
Prof. Annette Oxenius (ETH Zurich)
Program:
Pathway to more transparency in Animal Research
Overview:
- Sunday, Oct. 16: welcome dinner
- Monday, Oct. 17: closed meeting for scientists by invitation only, including ECOPA and animal welfare groups 9:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday, Oct. 18: Open, broad invitation to local academia including students, politicians and media journalists, NGOs, administration departments. 9:00 – 12.00;
Afternoon optional: Media training
Detail Program:
Monday, October 17
Location: Wissenschaftsform, Berlin
Meeting Chairs: Prof. Michael Hengartner / Prof. Stefan Treue
- 08:00 Registration, Coffee
- 09:00 – 09:15 Welcome, Introduction
Prof. Stefan Treue, Primate Center, Göttingen - 09:15 – 09:30 Transparency in Animal Research
Prof. Gerhard Heldmaier, University of Marburg - 09:30 – 09:45 Transatlantic Perspecitve on the Basel Declaration
Prof. Richard Bianco, University of Minnesota, USA - 09:45 – 10:00 New EU Directive on the protection of experimental animals and
fundamental research
Susanne Louhimies, The European Commission, Bruxelles - 10:00 – 10:15 Review: One year «Basel Declaration»
Prof. Dr. Michael Hengartner, University of Zürich - 10:15 – 10:45 Break and Coffee
- 10:45 – 12:45 Working group sessions (Breakout Rooms)
- 13:00 – 14:15 Lunch
- 14:15 – 16:00 Working group sessions (Breakout Rooms)
- 16.15 – 16:30 Break
- 16.30 – 18:00 Results (Plenary)
Working Groups:
WORKING GROUP TITLE | OBJECTIVES |
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3R Workshop | Assess how the concept of 3Rs can best be implemented in the context of fundamental research |
Training and education |
How can training and continuous education be implemented most effectively in today’s global and highly mobile science community? |
Management of pain and distress; Severity degrees | Criteria for a well designed severity degree system. Impact of multiple genetic modifications on prospective severity degree assessment. Do different species experience pain and suffering differently? |
Publication and transparency issues | Is it useful and feasible to publish negative results? How can lay summaries contribute to a more educated public dialogue? |
Communication | How can communication at the level of individual institutions be better promoted? Do we need a German “Forschung für Leben”? |
Dienstagmorgen, 18. Oktober
Ort: Schweizerische Botschaft, Berlin
Meeting Chair: Prof. Michael Hengartner
- 09:00 Willkommensgruss / Ein Jahr «Basler Deklaration»
Prof. Michael Hengartner, Unviersität Zürich - 09:10 – 09:25 Die Revision der EU-Direktive für Tierschutz
Elisabeth Jeggle, Europaabgeordnete für Tierschutz - 09:25 – 09:40 Transparency, the 3Rs and fundamental research: A perspective from the
European Commission
Susanne Louhimies, The EU Commission, Bruxelles - 09:40 – 09:55 Im Dialog voneinander lernen: Zwei Beispiele
Thomas B. Cueni, Interpharma, Basel - 09:55 – 10:10 Wie viel Transparenz erträgt die Forschungsfreiheit
Prof. Hans Wyss. Direktor Bundesamt für Veterinärwesen, Schweiz - 10:10 – 10:25 Tierschutz und Tierforschung - die Stimmer der Forschung
Prof. Stefan Treue, Primatenzentrum, Göttingen - 10:20 – 10:45 Kaffeepause
- 10:45 – 11:45 Präsentation der Resultate aus den Workshops
- 11:45 – 12:00 Q&A
- 12:00 – 12:10 Schlussbemerkung und Ausblick
Prof. Michael Hengartner, Universität Zürich
Dienstagnachmittag
- 13:00 – 17:00 (optional) Media training, Venue: Wissenschaftsforum, Gendarmenmarkt
Dieses Meeting wird von folgenden Organisationen getragen und mitfinanziert:
Schweizer Nationalfonds
www.snf.ch
Forschung für Leben / Recherche pour la vie
www.forschung-leben.ch / www.recherche-vie.ch
Senatskommission für Tierexperimentelle Forschung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft
www.dfg.de
Interpharma, Schweiz
www.interpharma.ch
Max Plank Gesellschaft
www.mpg.de
vfa. Die forschenden Pharma-Unternehmen
www.vfa.de
Schweizerische Botschaft in Berlin
www.eda.admin.ch/berlin
Alle teilnehmenden Forscher bezahlen ihre Reise und den Aufenthalt in Berlin aus ihren zur Verfügung stehenden Budgets.
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