This page will be used to highlight funding sources for research and development on 3R-alternatives to the use of animals in science and education.

Several centres fund this work and/or provide lists of funders:

• Funding schemes from the Swiss 3R Competence Centre (Swiss 3RCC)
• Funding schemes from the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research, UK (NC3Rs)
• Funding schemes from the French Center for the 3Rs (FC3R)
• List of funding opportunities compiled by the Swedish 3Rs Center
• List of funding opportunities provided by RE-PLACE
• List of funding opportunities compiled by the 3Rs Collaborative
• Danish 3R-Center (DKK 1.5 million per year)
• Grants from the Swedish Fund for Research Without Animal Experiments (Forska Utan Djurförsök) 
• Annual Open Grants from the Alternatives Research and Development Foundation (ARDF)
• More Knowledge with Fewer Animals - a programme from ZonMW, an independent Dutch government body
• Replacing Animal Research (formerly FRAME) funds the FRAME Laboratory, Summer Studentship Awards, an Innovation Grant Scheme and Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (Grant funding policy).
• Funding from Stichting Proefdiervrij (Dutch Foundation for the Replacement of Animal Testing), The Hague
• List of funding opportunities compiled by LISAvienna (Life Sciences in Vienna) - can be sorted by country and type (e.g. basic research, clinical research, pre-seed and start-ups)

Several 3R centres (including Norecopa) award 3R prizes with cash awards that can be used to support 3R initiatives:

• overview of centres awarding a 3R prize
• global overview of 3R centres
  
  

Other sources

• Horizon Europe (2021-2027)
• FHF (Fiskeri- og Havbruksnæringens Forskningsfinansiering) (funding research and development of relevance to fisheries and farming of marine species- in Norwegian)
• Petra Lundbergs Stiftelse, Sweden