Ethics committees play a fundamental role in the evaluation and supervision of research projects involving animals, ensuring compliance with ethical and animal welfare standards. This course is aimed at current or future members of animal experimentation ethics committees, and is designed to enhance their skills in the ethical evaluation of research protocols.

Who is this course for?

Target audience

  • Members of ethics committees

Prerequisites

  • No

Learning objectives

  • Mastering the basics of ethics in animal experimentation to participate in an ethics committee
  • Understanding how ethics committees work
  • Knowing how to carry out an ethical assessment of an application for authorisation of a project
  • Knowing how to carry out a retrospective assessment

Programme

  • 7 hours e-learning

Notions of animal ethics, animal models, principles of alternative methods, severity of procedures, limit points, guided reading of a DAP (project authorisation request), APAFIS, fate of animals

  • 7 hours face-to-face or distance learning

Application of the principles presented in e-learning: prospective and real assessment of the severity of procedures, DAP review, ethical assessment, communication on animal experimentation, etc.

Teaching resources

  • Theoretical contributions
  • Participatory exercises
  • Teaching support sent by e-mail

Assessment procedures

Assessment of knowledge in the form of a questionnaire leading to a training certificate

Prices

  • Sessions on the agenda: 420 EXCLUDING VAT / participant
  • Other: on request

Accessibility

  • Disabled access: Adaptation to your needs on request
  • Admission procedure : Entry questionnaire

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