The transition to animal-free innovations requires cooperation, also locally. Parties across the country are joining forces for animal-free innovation.
Accelerating the transition together
Local TPI networks bring people of research and educational institutions, companies, and regulators together that mainly work on accelerating the development, validation and implementation of animal-free innovations and to stimulate education on that.
Interaction, exchange of knowledge and experience
TPI stimulates local networks that subscribe the mission of TPI: better prediction without laboratory animals. Several times a year we organise a meeting for the local TPI networks. This way we connect local TPI networks with each other and with TPI.
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Local TPI networks
Biomedical Scientists from the knowledge centers in Amsterdam, including Amsterdam UMC, the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam and Academic Center for Dentistry (ACTA) meet to discuss what was happening already in Amsterdam regarding animal free innovations and to make a “Plan of Action”
Theme groups
Action points are divided into Theme groups such as Education, Symposia and Networking, Organoid models, Transparency in Animal Research in Amsterdam, Funding Acquisition and Societal Impact.
Since February 2024 TPI Amsterdam is part of the new Amsterdam 4Rs Centre.
Scientists at the Utrecht Science Park work together to accelerate the transition to innovation without the use of animals.
Help Desk
The working group helps researchers and lecturers, for example, with a help desk they can use to contact experts in animal-free research. Helpathons are also held, during which teams come up with creative solutions for a single central problem.
At Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP), various organisations are developing methods through which the processes and side-effects of medicines can be studied using less or even no animal testing. To promote collaboration, the LBSP is setting up a network for business owners, researchers and students. In this way, knowledge, facilities and experiences can be shared. The network has a lot of potential, as shown at the launch in a Tech Talk held in Naturalis on 26 April 2022.
