Webinars and Meetings Calendar

N.B. For information about courses in laboratory animal science, click here.

The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in an enormous increase in the number of webinars and online meetings. Many of these were recorded and can be accessed here.

A complete list of links to past webinars and meetings can be accessed here (Many of these links will eventually die out, but they still give a useful overview of organisers and locations of relevant webinars and meetings within laboratory animal science, and it is often possible to contact the organisers for more information).

Do you know of a meeting that should be on this Calendar? Please let us know!

Resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic
Toxicology meetings calendar
Home Office L/E1, PIL AB and PIL C Live Webinars, Pre-recorded Webinars, Face-to-face and Online Courses arranged by The Learning Curve
Webinars on demand from FELASA
Webinars on demand from Charles River
Webinars on demand from Ellegaard Göttingen Minipigs
Webinars on demand from AALAS
Recorded webinars on behavioural research from Noldus

GV-SOLAS meetings calendar
IAT events calendar
LAVA meetings and events
NC3Rs events calendar
ECLAM events calendar

For more references, see the bottom of this page.

June 2023

• Introduction to systematic review & meta-analysis of animal studies, online, 5-7 June 2023
• Responsible Animal Research Training, online, 5-8 June 2023
• RELSA: Relative Severity Assessment in Laboratory Animals, webinar (Steven R. Talbot), Berlin/online, 6 June 2023
• Göttingen Minipigs in Biomedical Research: Evolve, Develop and Refine Models, Rome, 6 June 2023
• Alternatives to Animal Experimentation (ATAE 2023), Paris, 6-7 June 2023
• Talk with TPI (Dutch Transition Programme for Innovation without the use of animals), Den Haag, 7 June 2023
• Enhancing veterinary training through humane innovations, webinar (Nick Jukes), 7 June 2023
• The EQIPD quality system and auditing, EQIPD webinar (Björn Gerlach & Anton Bespalov), 7 June 2023
• Not Just Another NAMs Meeting - NAMs from Aspiration to Implementation, London, 7 June 2023
• Creating the right environment for animal care, webinar series, 7, 14 & 21 June 2023
• 47th AFSTAL Congress, Bordeaux, 7-9 June 2023
• SCAW IACUC Training Workshop, New York, 8 June 2023
• ART (Animal Research Tomorrow) Award Ceremony and Conference, online, 8 June 2023
• Common statistical pitfalls in the design and analysis of animal experiments, webinar (Katrina Gore), 9 June 2023
• Norecopa's Annual General Meeting and Scientific Seminar, online and Bergen, 12 June 2023
• Course for wildlife scientists (designed for UK licensees), online, 12-22 June 2023
• Statistical Analysis Course: for in vivo and in vitro scientists, online, 12-14 June 2023
• LAWTE conference, online/Pittsburgh, 12-14 June 2023
• Dyrevelfærdsorganernes Årsmøde 2023, Copenhagen, 13 June 2023
• Introduction to the role of the Named Veterinary Surgeon, location to be announced, 13-14 June 2023
• Creating the right environment for animal care, webinar series, 7, 14 & 21 June 2023
• 3rd Joint SLAS - Cro-LASA meeting, Ljubljana, 15 June 2023
• The principles of rigorous and reproducible animal research, webinar (Hanno Würbel), 16 June 2023
• Guide to refinement for fish species, webinar (Chloe Stevens), 16 June 2023
• Göttingen Minipigs Academy: Veterinary Management, Welfare and Culture of Care, Dalmose, 19 June 2023
• Assessment, Prevention and Alleviation of Pain and Distress in Laboratory Animals Workshop, online, 19-23 June 2023
• Recent Advances in Animal Welfare Science IX: Virtual UFAW Conference, online, 20-21 June 2023
• Frontiers Forum Deep Dive: Organoid Intelligence, online event, 21 June 2023
• Creating the right environment for animal care, webinar series, 7, 14 & 21 June 2023
• 3rd International Student Symposium on Animal Behaviour and Cognition, Mexico City/online, 21-23 June 2023
• How the pharmaceutical industry is working to avoid and replace the use of animals for scientific purposes, EFPIA/RSPCA online event, 22 June 2023
• Summer School: Stem cell based disease models, Poitiers, 26-28 June 2023
• 2nd Microphysiological Systems World Summit, Berlin, 26-30 June 2023
• ESLAV-ECLAM Annual Meeting, Tallinn, 26-27 June 2023
• ESLAV-ECLAM Summer School, Tallinn, 28-30 June 2023

July 2023

• Advanced Training School in the Use of Home-Cage Technologies to Monitor Rodents, Porto, 10-14 July 2023
• How to share research in a free, fast and fair way, webinar, 12 July 2023
• NO Pain - ALL Gain! Pain Recognition and Analgesic Techniques for Laboratory Animals, AALAS webinar (Rebeccah Johnson), 12 July 2023
• Gentle Mouse Handling workshop, Zurich, 14 July 2023 (in German)
• Maternaler-, prä- und perinataler Stress: Der Vogel als exzellentes Modell zur Untersuchung von Langzeitfolgen, webinar (Barbara Tzschentke), 15 July 2023
• ZEBRA900: Zebrafish Husbandry Education Short Course, Birmingham, Alabama, 16-20 July 2023
• Collection of physiological data from human subjects, Biopac conference, Santa Barbara, 17-19 July 2023
• ESLAV/RCSI Laboratory Animal Genetics School, Dublin, 24-28 July 2023

August 2023

• ISAE 2023 (56th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology), Tallinn, 1-5 August 2023
• Biosafety and Biosecurity Training Course, Fort Collins, 7-11 August 2023
• ANZCCART conference, Adelaide, 8-10 August 2023
• Techniques and Tools for Conducting Relevant Literature Reviews, webinars (Nicole Drumhiller), 23 & 30 August 2023
• Handling and training of mice for low stress procedures, webinar (Thérese Ahlström), 25 August 2023
• WC12 - 3Rs over the Edge: Regulatory Acceptance and Next-Gen Education, Niagara Falls, 27-31 August 2023
• ANZLAA Conference: Training Teams Technology, Melbourne, 28-30 August 2023

September 2023

• 60th Annual Meeting of GV-SOLAS and 21st Advanced Training Course of the IGTP, Mainz, 6-8 September 2023
• Introduction to the role of the Named Veterinary Surgeon, location to be announced, 11-12 September 2023
• 9th LAS EU Functions Course (FELASA accredited - functions ABCD for mice and rats), online/Athens, Athens, 11-22 September 2023
• EUROoCS Summer School (European Organ-on-a-chip Society), Tübingen, 11-15 September 2023
• 5th Summer Shoal on Fish Welfare, Algarve, 12-15 September 2023
• Centro 3R IV Annual Meeting: The role of 3Rs in the age of One Health: where we are and where we’re going, Milan, 13-15 September 2023
• AFLAS Congress, Jeju Island, South Korea, 13-15 September 2023
• Gentle Mouse Handling workshop, Zurich, 15 September 2023 (in German)
• Swiss 3Rs Day, Lugano, 19 September 2023
• Joint 3R Symposium, Brussels, 19-21 September 2023
• 21st Symposium of the European Primate Veterinarians society, London, 21-22 September 2023
• Monitoring von Stress und Wohlergehen bei Labortieren, webinar (Neele Meyer), 22 September 2023
• Göttingen Minipigs Academy: Hands-On Course, Handling and Dosing, Dalmose, 25 September 2023
• Veterinary Ethics Conference, Vienna, 27-29 September 2023
• Young TPI Career Event: Shaping Your Future in Animal-Free Science, Delft, 29 September 2023

October 2023

• Course for wildlife scientists (designed for UK licensees), online, 2-12 October 2023
• ecopa Annual Meeting and General Assembly, Helsinki/online, 5-6 October 2023
• 10th Annual International Zebrafish Husbandry Course, Buguggiate, 9-13 October 2023
• Focus on severe suffering - Cumulative severity, RSPCA event, Leiden, 12-13 October 2023
• 3rd Preclinical Models Imaging Workshop, Athens, 16-20 October 2023
• Ethical issues in the application procedure for animal experiments, webinar (Matthias Eggel), 20 October 2023
• Gentle Mouse Handling workshop, Zurich, 20 October 2023
• 74th AALAS National Meeting, Salt Lake City, 22-26 October 2023

November 2023

• Danish 3R-Center's Annual Symposium, Copenhagen, 6-7 November 2023
• Practical course in zebrafish husbandry and procedures, Stockholm, 13-15 November 2023 (more information coming soon)
• Networking meeting for Nordic zebrafish managers, Stockholm/online, 16-17 November 2023 (more information coming soon)
• Mice learning in social interaction and consequences for welfare and data quality, webinar (Benjamin Lang), 17 November 2023
• LASA Annual Meeting, 21-23 November 2023
• Göttingen Minipigs Academy: Christmas seminar, Copenhagen, 23 November 2023
• EALAS-2023 (European Academy of Laboratory Animal Surgery), congress and wetlabs, Rome, 22-24 November 2023
• SGV Annual Meeting, Zurich, 28-29 November 2023

December 2023

• Austrian 3R Days, Innsbruck, 5-7 December 2023
• How to improve dialogue facilitation between caretakers, AWB, scientists and the public across animal research, webinar (Beth Greenhough), 15 December 2023

2024

January 2024

• PhD Course on Animal Pain, Lyngby, 15-19 January 2024
• Status of the 3Rs and New Approach Methodologies across Europe, webinar (Winfried Neuhaus), 25 January 2024
• PREPARE for Better Science, online course, 29-31 January 2024

February 2024

• Preregistration and open science - maximizing the knowledge gain from animal research, webinar (Céline Heinl), 16 February 2024

March 2024

• Tierische Produkte in der Petrischale:  Auf dem Weg zu einem wahrhaft tierfreiem Labor, webinar (Tilo Weber), 15 March 2024

April 2024

May 2024

• Openness in Animal Research: A conference to celebrate a decade of the Concordat, West Midlands, 2-4 May 2024
• Scand-LAS, Finland, 21-24 May 2024

June 2024

• Behavioral Science is not BS, webinar (Mu Yang), 14 June 2024
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Saskatoon, 22-25 June 2024

July 2024

August 2024

September 2024

• EUSAAT congress, Linz, 18-24 September 2024

October 2024

November 2024

• 75th AALAS National Meeting, Nashville, 3-7 November 2024

December 2024

2025

• Annual CALAS Symposium, Richmond BC, 1-6 May 2025
• 16th FELASA congress, Athens, 2-5 June 2025

2026

• Scand-LAS, Denmark
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Richmond BC, 3-10 June 2026

2027

• Scand-LAS, Norway
• Annual CALAS Symposium, Montreal QC, 12-19 May 2027

2028

• 17th FELASA congress

Further reading

• Guidance on preparing a presentation for a meeting
• Boosting the signal in scientific talks
• The 11-step guide to running effective meetings
• Ten tips for productive online meetings
• Advice for attending your first meeting (from the Physiological Society)
• An informal guide to arranging a scientific meeting (written in 2003 and reflecting the technology available at that time, it contains some general advice which is still relevant)