Thursday, 14 March 2013 18:53

Baden-Württemberg gives financial support for Alternatives to Animal Testing

Baden-Württemberg wants to be a model in biomedical research and provides additional money for the development of alternatives to animal testing.

The Ministry of Rural Affairs and Consumer Protection renewed the € 400,000 euro funding program to develop alternative and complementary methods to animal tests, said Consumer Protection Minister Alexander Bonde and Science Minister Theresia Bauer (both green party) on Wednesday in Stuttgart. As an important site the Southwest of Germany should be a model of the development of alternative methods in biomedical research.

According to the ministers, applications can be made for scientific projects and also for ethical reviews of animal experiments. So far the programm supported methods e. g. which reduce distress of laboratory animals.

Also eligible are scientific approaches for the advancement of animal-free courses of studies in the life sciences.

Applications should be made until May 15, 2013.

More information: http://mlr.baden-wuerttemberg.de/