ABSTRACT

Nordic Alliance in Laboratory Animal Science Education (NALASE)

Axel Kornerup Hansen1, Timo Nevalainen2,3, Adrian Smith4, Marianne Jensen-Wärn5, Merel Ritskes-Hoitinga6 & Jann Hau7
1The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; 3University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland; 4Norwegian College of Veterinary Medicine. Oslo, Norway; 5The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden; 6University of Odense, Odense, Denmark & 7University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

The authors of this abstract as well as their departments form the cooperation NALASE. The participants have agreed to promote education in laboratory animal science (LAS) at all levels. Other universities playing active role in LAS education are welcome to join. The cooperation is a continuation of the cooperation previously arranging the Nordic Summer Schools; courses, which before the creation of the FELASA education guidelines, actually taught LAS on category C levels. The first one was held in 1973 in Turku, Finland and since then Nordic Summer Schools have been arranged in 1975, 1978, 1981, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1993. Hereafter LAS courses became an integrated part of teaching on Scandinavian universities which minimized the need for common Nordic courses with only Nordic participants. Therefore, in 1994 the Summer Schools were replaced by competence courses with the same curriculum but not necessarily performed during summer. These courses have been arranged in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1999 in the Baltic countries with at least 50 % Baltic participants. In june 2002 the competence course will take place in St. Petersburg. All these courses attempt to teach on category C level. Teachers come from the NALASE cooperators as well as from other regions, e.g. USA and UK. Sponsors of the courses have been several, among which the Nordic Ministry and later NORFA have been the major economic backups. The parties are also discussing further cooperation on their university category C courses. Furthermore, they have agreed to work towards establishment of a collaborative training programme for category D-level (specialists) in laboratory animal science. The first of these programmes have been established on the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen and it is open to both national and international participants.
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