FIN3R & TOKES are proud to invite you to the first Finnish Culture of Care Symposium

“High standards, Humane Science”

We warmly invite everyone working with laboratory animals to join the first Finnish Culture of Care symposium “High Standards, Humane Science” organized by TOKES and Fin3R. The Symposium will be held in the University of Helsinki Meilahti campus, Biomedicum lecture hall 2, on Wednesday April 9^th, 10-15h.

The Symposium is accompanied by a separate interactive “Care-full stories” workshop, an extension to Jordi Tremoleda’s talk, on Thursday April 10th, 9-12h at Helsinki University Viikki, Infokeskus Sali K1088 (Viikinkaari 11, Helsinki).

ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM

Culture of Care in experimental animal work refers to a stern commitment to improve animal welfare and experimental quality through transparent communication between stakeholders. Culture of Care improves practices and challenges the status quo to achieve the highest animal welfare and science standards.

The Symposium provides international examples of Culture of Care activities and reviews the current status in Finland, aiming to stimulate national activities and compile a roadmap for the future. Symposium talks are live-streamed but panel discussion is only on-site.

Registration for the Symposium is possible by April 7th, 2025 at 16:00 on this link.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The workshop is an opportunity to experience how Care-full stories approach works in training the stakeholders involved in experimental work with animals by exchange of ideas and experiences. For workshop, all colleagues working in laboratory animal community, including researchers across all levels of expertise, veterinarians, animal technicians, policy makers, and welfare professionals are welcome to apply.

Workshop: Interactive session to experience innovative approaches to support emotional openness and caring perspectives in our work with laboratory animals

Description: This session follows up on Jordi Tremoleda’s presentation and is an opportunity to experience the Care-full-stories work, through a dynamic, participative and engaging group session. This will be a fun and creative opportunity to experience such activity to get familiar with the training materials, which consists of a selection of scripted scenarios- and how the group activity is structured. This group exercise will serve to help attendees to experience this training tool and reflect on how this can be planned and suited to your institution’s needs. And importantly, it will be an opportunity to collectively exchange ideas and experiences, to build up professional and emotional connections to empower the great value of our caring duties to the animals and our colleagues at work.

For this session we welcome all the colleagues working in our lab animal community, including researchers, across all levels of expertise and seniority, veterinarians, animal technicians, policy makers, AWB members and animal welfare/ ethics professionals.

Workshop leaders: Jordi Tremoleda and Fernando Gonzalez Uarquin

Applications for the workshop are possible by 03.04.2025 at 16:00 on this link.

Note that the maximum number of participants is 30.

Successful applicants for the workshop will be informed on 04.04.2025 by 16:00.

UPCOMING EVENTS

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Finnish 3Rs Annual Symposium will take place in Turku, on October 27-28, 2025. More information about the program and registration will be available later!

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