Resources

Norecopa Website

The Norecopa website (https://norecopa.no) provides information on global resources relevant to the Three Rs (Replacement, Reduction, Refinement). It includes several databases of relevance to education and training:

• NORINA – information on thousands of products that can be used as alternatives or supplements to animal use in education and training
• TextBase – literature within Laboratory Animal Science, including anatomy and dissection manuals
• 3R Guide – a global collection of guidelines, information centres, journals and email lists.
• A database of international Educational and Training Resources
• Links to courses in Laboratory Animal Science and related subjects

The Norecopa website also has an international Webinars & Meetings Calendar, a Refinement Wiki, an overview of European 3R Centres and detailed information on how to plan animal studies (the PREPARE guidelines).

The approx. 10,000 pages (last checked in September 2020) on the site can be searched simultaneously, using the built-in intelligent search engine. Numerous filters can be applied to narrow the search results.

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ETPLAS has agreed to provide a link and contribute to ETRIS – Education and Training Resources in In-vivo Sciences. The ETRIS website provides links to freely available, online, open access e-resources for use in the provision of education and training, or research, in in-vivo physiology, pharmacology and related disciplines. The site, which is searchable, provides links to individual resources, grouped within distinct categories/topics, each accompanied by a brief description.

 Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes

 Education and training framework with a modular learning outcome-based training structure, principles and criteria for supervision, competence assessment, continued professional development and for a mutual approval/ accreditation of courses

 Poster: The key elements of the EU Education and Training framework

Source ec.europa.eu

• Legal background
• Objectives
• Modular Structure
• Main modules
• Educational learning process
• Supervision and competence assessment

The RAT – Research Animal Training website provides full theoretical e-learning EU modules, as training resources for EU functions, alongside a series of tutorials on substance administration and aseptic technique.