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The congress will adress the them 'Data-driven environmental decision making' with a particular focus on the following topics:

• Environmental fate and effects of pollutants and their mixtures
• Solutions to reduce, replace and regulate the use of known pollutants
• Innovations to foster more sustainable practices
• Approaches including supply chain data collection, impact assessment modelling and footprinting methodologies
• ...

This symposium will focus on reduction, refinement, and replacement methods to improve laboratory animal welfare while maintaining or improving scientific results.

Sessions are designed for investigators, laboratory animal veterinarians, care staff, and IACUC members and staff. Residents, students, and postdocs are also welcome!

The JRC of the European Commission and the EURL ECVAM organize the fourth edition of the 'Summer School on Non-animal Approaches in Science: Towards Sustainable Innovation'. The program will focus on in vitro and computational models in biomedical research and regulatory applications.

Open to students or early-career scientists working in relevant fields of research and application.

This Training Course aims at meeting this important need by training individuals who wish to start or pursue a career in this direction or to gain an update on the state-of-the-art of applied in vitro toxicology. It is intended for (post)doctoral students and early-stage scientists from industry, academia or regulatory agencies who recently became active in the field of in vitro toxicology.

As part of its commitment to support the transition to an animal free regulatory system, ECHA is organising a workshop to discuss critical needs to enable faster progress.

The workshop will be an opportunity to bring stakeholders together and develop a common understanding of what NAMs can achieve in the short and long term.

Deadline to register: 28/02/2023.

The event is open to all stakeholders of life sciences community: biotech, pharma and medtech, agricultural and chemical industry as well as investors, universities, topnotch research institutes, policymakers and competence providers.

More information on the program will be available soon.

This workshop will focus on different topics around QSAR, such as:

• Development and validation of (Q)SARs
• Big data / bioinformatics
• AOP / IATA 
• Application of (Q)SARs
• Read-Across and grouping
• (Q)SARs and toxicokinetic modelling
• Descriptor and modelling methods developments
• Emerging technologies, challenges, QAAR, UVCBs / mixtures, nano, green chemistry / safe-by-design etc.

The event is open to academia, regulators and industry.

This annual meeting will focus on NAMs around the 'why' (what are the drivers per different stakeholder groups) and 'how' (what would facilitate or inhibit a defined implementation strategy).

Three panel discussions will be organised:

• Whose NAM is it anyway?
• And where is your final destination today?
• How will we know when we've arrived?