The collaboration has so far focused on the housing of experimental animals and how this can be improved by focusing on the needs of the animals and not on existing housing systems, cost and/or convenience.

We organized several workshops on animal welfare with internationally known experts to obtain the necessary knowledge of the behavioral as well as physiological needs of the different species of experimental animals and to identify the most important needs of the animals to be satisfied in capture.

Based on the results from these workshops new prototypes for housing of several species of experimental animals have been developed, which to a much larger extent than previously consider the needs of the animals.

One of the very successful improvements regards the implementation of a socialization programme and refinements of the housing conditions for experimental dogs in accordance to their social needs of living in harmonious groups in a stimulating enriched and functionally divided environment.

Initiatives like these improve the quality of life for experimental animals and give a much more satisfying working climate with well functional and confident animals that should provide better and more reliable scientific results.

We hope that we through this initiative can contribute to new trends and standards for housing of experimental animals.