The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal Testing (EPAA) supports students and young scientists with outstanding work in the field of alternative approaches for attending a high-profile scientific event.

Every year, a number of high-profile international meetings bring together world-class scientists working on the development and acceptance of 3R alternatives to animal testing (Replacement, Reduction or Refinement). Costs linked to participation may prevent students with promising work or young scientists at the beginning of their career from attending these events. The EPAA partners are therefore happy to sponsor the 3Rs Student grants to facilitate the participation of students and young scientists in such events.

A jury will assess the applications and propose a list of selected candidates to the EPAA Steering Committee. The jury will be composed of 4 members (two from the Industry and two from the European Commission) who will judge.

In 2025, a two full grants of 1000€ for MPS World Summit 2025, SETAC 2025 and EUROTOX 2025 are available.
– All grants cover the reimbursement of the event registration fees for the student/young scientist as well as travel and accommodation fees, on the basis of the expense receipts. Payment will be made after the event.

Eligibility
Eligibility criteria for both students and events are defined as follows. Applications falling out of this scope will not be accepted.
Students
1) Applicants have to be based (i.e. studying) in one of the 27 EU Member States or the UK. Citizenship may be from any country (i.e. also outside of the EU).
2) Applicants must be graduated (BSc / First cycle completed with at least 180 ECTS credits) when applying and should not have a doctoral degree.
3) Applicants must still be considered as full-time students or young scientists (≤ 35 years old) when applying.
4) Young scientists employed by industry are not eligible
5) No funding or reimbursement by another entity for the same student and event is allowed.

Further information on the events and the application and selection process can be found here.

EPAA recognition
The winner of the grant accepts to give recognition to EPAA in their presentation/poster. The winner is required to provide a proof which clearly shows him or her giving recognition to EPAA (a photo or a video with oral statement).
The winner of the grant also accepts that the EPAA may publish the abstracts of the presentation / the poster on its website (after the event), in order to promote and disseminate the research. A short summary report of the event and how the student benefitted from the participation needs to be provided.

ABOUT EPAA
EPAA is a Public-Private Partnership across seven industry sectors and between European Commission and Industry stakeholders. Launched in 2005, it gathers 38 companies, 9 European trade federations and 5 Directorates-General of the European Commission.
Further information is available on:
https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/sectors/chemicals/european-partnership-alternative-approaches-animal-testing_en
EPAA Annual report 2024:
https://ec.europa.eu/docsroom/documents/62494/attachments/1/translations/en/renditions/native