Three Rs Organisations/Centres

List put together in collaboration with members of the Centre for Applied Bioethics, University of Nottingham, through the NADIR Project. 

EUROPE

General:

ECOPA, European Consensus-Platform for Alternatives
Website: http://www.ecopa.eu/

EPAA, The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/epaa/index_en.htm

EURL ECVAM, European Union Reference Laboratory for alternatives to animal testing
Website: http://ihcp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/our_labs/eurl-ecvam

EUSAAT, European Society for Alternatives to Animal Testing
Website: http://www.eusaat.org/

Austria:

ZET, Centre for Alternative and complimentary Methods to animal testing
Website:  http://www.zet.or.at/index.php?lang=en (Site under construction)

Czech Republic:

CZECOPA (Consensus Platform for 3R Alternatives to Animal Experimentation)
Website:  http://www.czecopa.cz/index_eng.htm

Finland:

Fincopa, Finnish National Consensus Platform for Alternatives
Website: http://www.uta.fi/jarjestot/fincopa/

Germany:

CAAT Europe
Website: http://cms.uni-konstanz.de/leist/caat-europe/

SET, Foundation for the Promotion of Alternate and Complementary Methods to Reduce Animal Testing.
Website:  http://www.stiftung-set.de/index.php?id=3&L=1

ZEBET, The Centre for Documentation and Evaluation of Alternatives to Animal Experiments
Website: http://www.bfr.bund.de/en/zebet-58194.html

Italy:

ITPA, Italian Platform on alternative methods
Website:  http://www.ipamitalia.it/ (Information in Italian)

Norway:

Norecopa, Norway’s consensus platform for the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal experiments.
Website:  http://www.stiftung-set.de/index.php?id=3&L=1  (most of site is in Norwegian but this is the English section)

Netherlands:

NKCA, National Knowledge Centre on Alternatives
Website: http://www.nca-nl.org/ (website still under construction)

Spain:

REMA, Red Española de Métodos Alternativos
Website: http://www.remanet.net/ingles/remaingles.htm

Sweden:

Swedish Fund for Research without Animal Experiments
Website: http://www.forskautandjurforsok.se/in-english/

Switzerland:

The 3R Foundation
Website: http://www.forschung3r.ch/en/information/index.html

UK:

FRAME (Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments
Website: http://www.frame.org.uk/

NC3Rs (National centre for Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of animals in Research)
Website: http://www.nc3rs.org.uk/

RSPCA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Research Animals Science Group
Website: http://www.rspca.org.uk/sciencegroup/researchanimals

CANADA

The Canadian Council on Animal Care (CCAC)
Website: http://3rs.ccac.ca/en/

USA

Alt-Tox
Website: http://alttox.org/

ASCCT, American Society for Cellular and Computational Toxicology
Website: http://ascctox.org/

AWIC, The Animal Welfare Information Center
Website: http://awic.nal.usda.gov/   

IFER, The International Foundation for Ethical Research
Website: http://www.ifer.org/

IIVS, Institute for In Vitro Sciences
Website: http://www.iivs.org/

NAVS, The National Anti-Vivisection Society
Website: http://www.navs.org/

The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
Website:  http://caat.jhsph.edu/

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

Animal Ethics Info link
Website: http://www.animalethics.org.au/

ASIA

India:

I-CARE International Centre for Alternatives in Research and Education
Website: http://www.icare-worldwide.org/

MGDC, Mahatma Gandhi-Doerenkamp Centre for Alternatives to Use of Animals in Life Science Education
Website: http://www.mgdcaua.org/

Japan:

JaCVAM, The Japanese Center for the Validation of Alternative Methods
Website: http://www.jacvam.jp/en/

Korea:

Konkuk Institute for the 3Rs
Website: http://threers.konkuk.ac.kr/ (in Korean)Korean

Society of Alternatives to Animal Experiments
Website: http://www.ksaae.org/index.asp (in Korean)