Program 2025 (List of topics or title of talks)

-Surplus animals

-Guidelines for the “reporting“ of expected knowledge gain in animal studies (weighing of interests)

- Preclinical pilot studies: Five common pitfalls and how to avoid them

- Statistical simulations show that scientists need not increase overall sample size by default when including both sexes in in vivo studies

- Anesthesia error management

- GrimAce System - automated detection of the mouse grimace scale

- News from the animal experimental veterinary service – changes to regulations relevant to research

- Non-aversive handling – practical advices and legal background

-Mouse Locomotion in Tunnel handling vs. Tail handling.

- Refinement in mouse housing – mechanical quiz for mice and tunnelhandling different strains

- Revision of the Animal Protection Ordinance and the Animal Experimentation Ordinance

-News from the vet office ZH

This course covers fresh questions about animal welfare, animal experiments, animal facilities and others domains of the research involving animals. Some topics are related more specifically for issues at the University Zürich and/or the ETHZ.

The participants must be involved in animal experimentation (as experiment, study director, Cantonal commission, KVET, …)

This course is recognized by the authorities (one day continous education).

For persons who are affiliated with UZH and ETHZ: 130.- CHF

For persons from other Universities in Switzerland: 250.- CHF

Industry/External participants: 380.- CHF

Please note that we will charge you the full fees in case of a late cancellation of the course (within 3 weeks before start of the course) or in case of absence. It is the responsibility of the participant to inform the organizer of the course about the cancellation before the deadline of 3 weeks before the course to avoid the billing of the course. To charge for cancellations is common practice by other providers, too. The new proceedings for education courses became necessary due to an increasing extent of short term cancellations in training modules.

Insurance is responsibility of each participant.

Data from course evaluations, collected anonymously, may be used for the preparation of institutional reports (for example, the annual report of our institute) as well as for fulfilling requests from cantonal or federal authorities. They may also be used for scientific publications.

If registration data are used, they will be fully anonymized to ensure compliance with legal data protection requirements.

There is no time limit for retaining these data. Non-anonymized registration data are stored on secure UZH servers that meet the university’s data security standards. These non-anonymized data (evaluations of courses) do not pose any risk, as they cannot be linked to any individual person or to any specific institution or company.

By this notice, participants are informed that such uses may take place without further individual notification, as only anonymous or anonymized data will be used.